Cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS Dec 16, 2007
Think of a Tibco like messaging layer allowing automatic provisioning of more or less bandwidth between carriers throughout the day as companies need it (for real time communications or nightly data warehouse creations. Whatever). (Slashdot)
Microsoft Beleases Hyper-V Virtualization Tech Beta Dec 14, 2007
December 9, 2007 Enterprise projects, including Neoview data warehouse appliance, boosted their customer base. December 6, 2007 The capacity of storage systems shipped worldwide grew by nearly 50 percent in the third quarter. (PC World)
Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2007 Operating Results Dec 13, 2007
1 million for the replacement and improvements of information technology equipment and systems and the addition of slot machines and data warehouse storage. An additional $22. (Primezone Releases)
Borland to mix ALM, BI Dec 11, 2007
The plan involves developing a platform that can aggregate data that would reside in a centralized data warehouse. "There's a very good sense of urgency today because most businesses are expected to be much more agile," Brown said. (InfoWorld)
Technology will let Macy's customize stores in detail Dec 11, 2007
All of Penney's store purchasing information is managed and integrated from a centralized data warehouse. Pages: 1. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results Dec 4, 2007
-- Utilizing the enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence tools, the Company has nearly completed the initial process of re-segmenting the database at each property. This is expected to enable management to improve the effectiveness of its marketing spend by refocusing on increased share of wallet from higher value customers, and building new acquisition programs. (PR Newswire)
U.Va. Health System seeks to improve efficiency, patient care Dec 1, 2007
Creation of 'data warehouse' to result in improved use of resources ... The University Health System recently selected Claraview, a strategy and technology consulting firm, to develop a "data warehouse" that will be used to improve the quality of patient care and to maximize efficiency ... According to Burbules, the data warehouse will augment speed and efficiency, making hospital beds more readily available and easily accessible. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Big Blue Looks to Help You Understand Data Dec 1, 2007
IBM said DB2 Warehouse Performance Management Suite is designed to help data warehouse managers understand which applications are accessing the data, the frequency of access, and what the impact of those users and applications are on performance. Andrews argued that if an enterprise can understand data warehouse usage, it can improve data warehouse utilization ... These days, that's a must, given how data warehouses are not just for historical analysis and planning anymore. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
A Smarter Data Warehouse? Nov 30, 2007
A Smarter Data Warehouse ... A Smarter Data Warehouse ... It's one thing to have a lot of data to mine in a data warehouse (). (Datamation)
Data warehouse appliances demand diligence Nov 30, 2007
Finding the right data warehouse appliance is largely a matter of due diligence and proper testing, according to two instructors from ... Before venturing out into the sea of data warehouse appliance vendors, it's important to get a strong handle on exactly what type of appliance is needed and what purposes it will serve, according to Michael A. Schiff, founder and principal of MAS Strategies, a consultancy, and Kim Stanick, vice president of marketing with ParAccel Inc., a San Diego, Calif ...... (SearchOracle.com)
The Credit-Score Puzzle Nov 27, 2007
You might envision a bank of steel-hearted mainframes blinking deep in the bowels of some vast data warehouse, tended by an obsessive mad scientist who tinkers endlessly with a tangled set of scoring algorithms ... Fair Isaac, the predictive-analytics firm responsible for the FICO credit-score formula used by nearly all of the nation's largest card issuers, auto lenders and banks, does maintain a subterranean data warehouse outside its Minneapolis headquarters. (SmartMoney)
Corporate health Nov 22, 2007
To get a statistical handle on employees' health, Wald designed and constructed a customized data warehouse built around demographic, benefits consumption and participation data from all program initiatives and activities. Employees were encouraged to sign up for annual confidential, free health risk assessments. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Why Tech hates Georgia Nov 22, 2007
All time, the programs are ranked 11 and 12 by the college football data warehouse. Again, that is all time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
What Oracle's BI strategy means for Hyperion users Nov 22, 2007
And through its support of a common enterprise information model, or a semantic layer, Oracle says OBIEE Plus is the key to getting disparate Oracle data sources -- like an Oracle Data Warehouse or a PeopleSoft customer relationship management (CRM) implementation -- to integrate more seamlessly and more meaningfully with Essbase and other Hyperion products ... Kubiaczyk said he hopes to use OBIEE Plus to simplify the process of transferring data between the Oracle Data Warehouse and Essbase ...... (SearchOracle.com)
Business intelligence consolidation: friend or foe? Nov 16, 2007
"Like Hyperion and Business Objects, Cognos is used by organizations with a variety of enterprise systems. In fact, many smaller [enterprise resource planning] vendors have partnered with Cognos in the past to provide data warehouse and business intelligence functionality for their solutions," he points out. "For example, Lawson, MAPICS (now part of Infor), and ROI (now part of Epicor) all use Cognos as part of their total solution. Even SAP has a partnership with Cognos as part of its business... (Globe and Mail)
Solvay streamlines sales with Fusion Nov 14, 2007
Solvay also had a separate homegrown sales force management application and a large Oracle data warehouse full of customer and regulatory data ... Today, doctors fill out and sign electronic forms on Lenovo ThinkPad X60 tablet PCs with up-to-date customer information pushed down from the data warehouse ... Integration among Mobile Intelligence, Sample Guardian, Organization Manager, SAP, and the data warehouse allows much more effective sample tracking and alignment of sales staff with... (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
IBM offers $4.9 billion for Cognos Nov 13, 2007
"IBM has a large business around data warehouse, data intelligence and real-time analytics.". When asked about IBM's deal for Cognos, the SAP chief executive, Henning Kagermann, said it proved "that SAP's acquisition of Business Objects was a strategically important one.". (International Herald Tribune)
IBM to Buy Cognos for $4.9 Billion, Gaining Company-Performance Software Nov 13, 2007
IBM has a large business around data warehouse, data intelligence and real-time analytics. . (Bloomberg -- Canada)
2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards Nov 12, 2007
San Francisco - Abbott Laboratories Sales and Financial Data Warehouse Initiative Project Lead: Peggy Mathias, Senior Manager HQ IT Applications, International Division Project Description: Abbott launched an international sales data consolidation effort, developing a flexible information management infrastructure capable of accommodating future organizational changes and rapidly evolving business needs. The project integrated Kalido as a data warehouse, Oracle and PL/SQL for data staging, and... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Analytics is growing field in San Diego Nov 9, 2007
Scott Gnau, chief development officer for Teradata, a data warehouse and data mining software provider, said many businesses have gathered reams of data. They have the back-shop technology to access it and the software to generate reports. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
HP introduces SAP upgrade and management services Oct 31, 2007
0 and SAP NetWeaver technologies and help customers get started with eSOA. Other additions include new configurations for SAP on HP Integrity servers, data certification for the enterprise data warehouse platform, and major ISO standards, according to an HP press release ... 0 and SAP NetWeaver technologies and help customers get started with eSOA. Other additions include new configurations for SAP on HP Integrity servers, data certification for the enterprise data warehouse platform, and major... (Search SAP)
DBAs Demanding a Database Migration Tool Oct 27, 2007
"Although the primary purpose is to load data into a data warehouse , they can be used very effectively for migration, also.". Data migration in general remains a painful process for many businesses. (eWeek)
MS tackles 'new world of work' Oct 26, 2007
Freescale's business intelligence platform is intended to bring multiple data streams altogether into a single data warehouse. "One of the key objectives of IT is to turn data into information for decision-making," said Monney. (InfoWorld)
For the record, hit a fast-forward button for data with destiny Oct 23, 2007
Even business intelligence systems, which have traditionally used data warehouses to download transactional data into a form more suitable for querying and analysis, are moving towards real time ... Netezza makes a data warehouse appliance, a piece of hardware that uses off-the-shelf disk, microchip and networking technology, along with some snazzy software, to vastly increase the speeds at which data can be queried and analysed. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Room For 'Openness' in 700 MHz Spectrum? Oct 22, 2007
The solution employs a consolidated enterprise data warehouse along with business intelligence applications. Today's EDW occupies over 20TB of usable data space, processes 90 billion rows of data per month, and is accessed by over 11,000 users worldwide. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Bull Announces its Third Quarter 2007 Revenue Oct 19, 2007
Addressing the Business Intelligence market, Bull has launched its Data Warehouse Parallel Server (DWPS) in Europe, combining Datallegro technology with Bull NovaScale servers and storage solutions. Targeting centralized datawarehouses, this new offering is part of Bull's initiative deisgned to help organizations make the most of their knowledge capital and facilitate effective decision-making. (PR Newswire)
New Technology Will Provide Immediate Access to Alaska's Student Data -- ESP Solutions Group Selected to Build Alaska's Educational Portal Sys Oct 19, 2007
DEED has already set a proper foundation for the project by constructing a centralized data warehouse, consolidating multiple data collections, and standardizing data practices--all of which are crucial for managing and analyzing longitudinal data ... Each stakeholder group will have access to education data contained in the data warehouse based on their security levels. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
BI vendors react to SAP/BOBJ plans Oct 19, 2007
Customers should be concerned about their ability to openly leverage their current data warehouse strategies in the future ... Customers should be concerned about their ability to openly leverage their current data warehouse strategies in the future. (Search SAP)
Client-Side Java Gets A Boost Oct 19, 2007
What to consider when architecting a large relational data warehouse and some methodologies for creating and storing pre-aggregated result sets to facilitate mainstream queries and reports. Business intelligence can seem like a daunting prospect, but this demo demonstrates how to reduce the cost and complexity of creating business intelligence so that more people in your company can use data to make smarter decisions. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Tip: Oracle as data integrator Oct 18, 2007
An Oracle data warehouse that aids in sales analysis, reporting, and BI.. Unfortunately, the only system that is native to the data warehouse is the OLTP environment, as they are both running Oracle ... Load The transformed data is applied to the data warehouse by means of a data loading mechanism. (SearchOracle.com)
Nine Global Dealers and Thomson Financial Form Premier Electronic Trading Venture Using TradeWeb Oct 11, 2007
The TradeXpressSTP network includes AccountNet, the first derivatives counterparty management tool and the leading data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation. TradeWeb operates within the Thomson Financial group of businesses. (PR Newswire)
OCS and Press Ganey Partner to Create Joint Analysis of Outcomes and Satisfaction Oct 8, 2007
OCS combines the richness of the nation's most comprehensive post-acute Data Warehouse with cutting-edge analysis tools, consulting services and custom technology solutions. Our information-based solutions facilitate providers, payers, industry analysts, consultants, Federal and state governments, medical products and pharmaceutical companies with advancing their missions using objective, independent information that is not available from other sources. (PR Newswire)
Teradata stock rises 7% in its first day of trading Oct 2, 2007
Teradata, a data warehouse provider with a large operation in Rancho Bernardo, saw its shares gain 7 percent in the company's first trading session as a publicly traded company ... Teradata, which NCR acquired in 1991, makes massive data warehouse hardware and software that analyzes reams of information essentially helping its customers store and mine data. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Nowhere To Hide Sep 27, 2007
And then they'll have a data warehouse that they use to pull data together across their whole enterprise. Then they back it all up in daily and weekly rolling systems. (Forbes)
HP Offers Packaged Approach to BI, Compliance Sep 27, 2007
The solution employs a consolidated enterprise data warehouse along with business intelligence applications ... The launch comes after HP in April its plans to address such issues in the datacenter, expanding on the formal launch of its new enterprise data warehouse platform Neoview. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Mapping the ones you love Get Schooled: Late discipline reports Sep 25, 2007
The new DOE data warehouse is still being completed ... The new DOE data warehouse is still being completed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Schools post high scores on the CMT Sep 22, 2007
He said that Art Colley, the school district's technology director, is taking steps to "establish a data warehouse for the district that will enable the teachers to assess the data, which should improve instruction and improve student achievement" on the CMT and CAPT.. The Brookfield Journal 2007. (Brookfield Journal, CT)
Gemcom InSite 2.1 Delivers Enhanced Functionality To Global Mining Companies Sep 18, 2007
All the information comes from a shared data warehouse, ensuring all users see the same data. "Merger and acquisition activity in the mining industry is driving consolidation, and costs are skyrocketing," said Dan Miklovic, vice president, Gartner. (Canada Newswire)
TDWI and DATAllegro to Host Webinar Focused On Advancements in the Data Warehouse Appliance Industry Sep 13, 2007
WHAT: "The Next Generation of Data Warehouse Appliances," September 26, 2007, 12 P.M. EDT, hosted by The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) and sponsored by DATAllegro. To register, click on: A few years ago, first generation data warehouse appliances emerged with a focus on purpose-built server hardware and BI software, pre-integrated into a single package ... Over time, however, the data warehouse appliance's focus on hardware has faded, as its vendors found that non-standard and single-use... (Primezone Releases)
Web site will let parents monitor school progress Sep 5, 2007
The program serves as a data warehouse and is Internet-based. "What is happening in education is data is driving instruction. It's really going to move us forward and give us the opportunity to see what we should be planning for," Superintendent Bob Lister said. (Concord Monitor)
Panel continues to explore autism in Missouri Sep 2, 2007
Farmer, director of the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said a hildren's data warehouse has been proposed in Missouri, but the project has not received funding. Before commenting read the News Tribune Forum's Thanks. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Fitness becomes an active goal Aug 30, 2007
Hawaii Health Data Warehouse. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
NCR to Spin Off Teradata Aug 29, 2007
NCR to Spin Off Data Warehouser Teradata ... NCR to Spin Off Data Warehouser Teradata ... Data warehouse rival Netezza describes NCR's Teradata spinoff as being good for competition in the industry. (eWeek)
eHarmony spurns Microsoft, finds match with Oracle 10g Aug 29, 2007
The company also implemented an Oracle data warehouse to support real-time and historical business intelligence reporting initiatives. Douglas said Oracle Partitioning software is being used in conjunction with the data warehouse to improve performance ... "All of the values that drive decisions in our business are extracted from our production database environment, which is supporting our website, and put into the data warehouse environment, which is supporting our marketing team and all of the... (SearchOracle.com)
The human touch Aug 26, 2007
Due to a freak air-conditioning accident in Argentina at the beginning of the summer, my laptop has gone to that great data warehouse in the sky. An IBM ThinkPad running Windows XP, it was a joy to use, and although we were together only a year, it had travelled everywhere with me, the stickers with which I'd adorned it at various international conferences revealing more about my journeys than my passport. (New Statesman)
Four corporate performance management best practices Aug 25, 2007
Some CPM dashboards have KPIs based on "post-operational" or analytical data, often stored in a data warehouse, McKnight explained. This is fine, but organizations should be aware of the implications for CPM dashboards, he said, since many data warehouses are batch loaded and may not refresh during the day ... Some CPM dashboards have KPIs based on "post-operational" or analytical data, often stored in a data warehouse, McKnight explained. (Search SAP)
Cognos, IBM Team Up on Bank BI Aug 23, 2007
The co-developed blueprint combines Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 Business Intelligence with IBM Banking Data Warehouse. It also brings in financial services expertise garnered through IBM Global Business Services. (eWeek)
DATAllegro Announces New Grid-Enabled Data Warehouse Appliances Aug 21, 2007
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TDWI -- DATAllegro(tm), supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, has expanded its successful v3 product line to include new grid-enabled data warehouse appliances. DATAllegro is the first data warehouse appliance vendor to offer this option, which allows companies more flexibility in building their enterprise data warehouse architecture so that it better fits the needs of both the overall business and... (Primezone Releases)
DATAllegro Releases New Data Warehouse Appliance for Low Cost, Online Archiving of Data Aug 21, 2007
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TDWI -- DATAllegro(tm), supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced the launch of a new online archive data warehouse (DW) appliance ... It makes sense to store different parts of your data warehouse on systems with different price/performance tradeoffs ... Some are required to in order to meet regulatory and compliance standards while others are looking to analyze more data to obtain a... (Primezone Releases)
Syncsort's New Release of DMExpress Found to be Twice as Fast as Competitors Aug 20, 2007
Syncsort has consistently maintained the highest standards of excellence in product performance, reliability and support--being named one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for three consecutive years ... Most of the Fortune 500 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, and improve performance of data-intensive applications and processes. (PR Newswire)
Bowater Standardizes on Cognos Performance Management Capabilities for Reporting, Analysis and Financial Consolidation Aug 20, 2007
As a single platform based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Cognos 8 BI integrates easily into Bowater's existing environment, leveraging its relational data warehouse infrastructure, multiple systems and disparate data sources. Cognos 8 BI provides Bowater with a robust technology foundation for BI standardization and performance management. (Canada Newswire)
Range Online Media Launches Second Generation 'SRS,' a New Cross-tactic Reporting and Measurement Platform Aug 17, 2007
The upgraded SRS technology platform consists of a data warehouse that allows direct client access as well as advanced analysis by the Range client services team. At the most specific level, it allows the marketers to view, in one place, how a specific keyword is performing across all search engines and in paid and natural listings. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Committee to present LISD bond package Aug 16, 2007
Technology bond requests total approximately 22 million, for instructional technology, new campus upgrades for Instructional Tech Leadership Team, computer replacement, data warehouse, telecommunications and fiber optic infrastructure. The ancillary recommendation calls for about 7. (Cedar Park Hill Country News Weekender, TX)
International Consumer Products Company Reduces Costs of SAP Data Warehouse Management with Nearline Solution from SAND Technology Aug 14, 2007
"We are very pleased to see another major customer adopt the SAND/DNA solution," said Arthur Ritchie, CEO of SAND Technology, "This decision further highlights SAND/DNA's superior ability to store and provide rapid access to any volume of infrequently-used data. As a fully integrated extension to SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0, SAND/DNA enables companies to reduce total cost of ownership and supports their efforts to more efficiently manage rapidly growing data warehouses." SAND/DNA software is certified... (Canada Newswire)
World to Dell: We want desktop Linux! Aug 10, 2007
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive. Marauders' maps, deluminators and sneakoscopes have their place, but Harry could have solved most of his problems by turning to Muggle technology. (ZDNet.com.au)
Siebel to help Jenny Craig slim down CRM Aug 10, 2007
In addition to Siebel CRM, Jenny Craig is deploying Oracle Database 10g, an Oracle-based data warehouse, Oracle Partner Portal and Oracle Business Intelligence applications ... In addition to Siebel CRM, Jenny Craig is deploying Oracle Database 10g, an Oracle-based data warehouse, Oracle Partner Portal and Oracle Business Intelligence applications. (SearchOracle.com)
Wal-Mart Data Store Tops 4PB Aug 4, 2007
Wal-Mart Plans for Its 4PB Data Warehouse ... Wal-Mart Plans for Its 4PB Data Warehouse ... Wal-Mart's data warehouse, for example, is larger than four petabytes. (eWeek)
Treasure the privacy of old-fashioned newspapers Jul 28, 2007
If we choose or are forced to use new technology in our homes, libraries, Internet cafes or the workplace, we are subject to every word we read or picture we view either being scrutinized for evil intent, abuse of company assets, or compiled in a data warehouse for later retrieval by an employer, police or marketing firms vying for lucrative databases that have formed profiles of each of us. If we use these devices to read or research controversial or benign subject matter, we have voluntarily... (North County Times)
AT&T donation to allow Mayo to expand program Jul 25, 2007
The gift from the will allow for the expansion of the Mayo Clinic Life Sciences System, a combination data warehouse and search engine that stores medical information, including genomic information, on consenting Mayo patients. The system is a reference that allows doctors to prescribe more accurate treatments for patients with similar genetic profiles and medical histories. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
VASCO Expands International Management Team Jul 24, 2007
Mr. Hoogland comes to VASCO from Syngenta AG where he most recently lead a global IS team in the implementation of an enterprise-wide data warehouse system. Prior to Syngenta, Mr. Hoogland served in various operational and technical IT positions at Novartis Agro, S.R.C. Software BV and Schlumberger Industries. (PR Newswire)
A Flash Of Inspiration In Energy-Saving Bulbs Tech Firms Plug Into 'Appliances' Jul 20, 2007
One of these, data warehouse appliances maker Netezza, made its initial public offering Thursday. The company sold 9 million shares at $12 a share, when it had been expected to price at $9 to $11 a share. (Investors Business Daily)
Netezza Corporation Announces Initial Public Offering Jul 19, 2007
About Netezza Corporation Netezza is a leading provider of data warehouse appliances. The Netezza Performance Server(R) system, or NPS(R), integrates database, server and storage platforms in a purpose-built unit to enable detailed queries and analyses on large volumes of stored data. (Canada Newswire)
Boston capital Jul 12, 2007
Netezza, which makes data warehouse products, counts Charles River, Battery Ventures, and Matrix Partners as big investors. Ditto West Coast heavyweights Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. (Boston Globe)
Greater Rochester IPA Deploys DocSite for Clinical Integration and Point-of-Care Decision Support Jul 4, 2007
At the heart of the effort is DocSite Connect, a rules-driven clinical guideline system and patient data warehouse. The GRIPA project relies on the combination of the warehouse, interfaces and DocSite Registry - a point-of-care decision support and guideline management application for the paper-based or EMR enabled physician. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
SOA and Composite Applications Jul 3, 2007
And, unlike a portal which frequently requires information to be copied and synchronized into a centralized data warehouse, the composite application retrieves its rolled-up information on a just-in-time basis: users see live data. Another key difference between an enterprise mashup and a portal is that the former often sports built-in semantic interoperability (i. (Search Webservices)