Patrick aides push for another Cognos probe Jul 1, 2008
Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester asked for an investigation into the procurement of a 2006 data warehouse and reporting system contract between his department and Cognos LLC, which along with its parent company, IBM, has already refunded a $13 million performance monitoring software contract this year after the inspector general concluded that the awarding process had violated bidding rules. The education commissioner, who does not mention DiMasi in the letter,... (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
HP, Hitachi boost blade servers Jun 26, 2008
Customers can start using the appliance straight out of the box and create a data warehouse in hours instead of weeks, according to Rich Ghiossi, director of business intelligence portfolio marketing at HP.. The preconfigured appliance comes with four HP BladeSystem c7000 chassis, which run HP ProLiant BL460c and ProLiant BL465c blade servers. (InfoWorld)
Facebook overtakes MySpace globally Jun 24, 2008
Software Engineer, Data Warehouse - Unix / Linux - London, South East The area: Software Engineering Google's software engineers develop the. A teenager who has been accused of hacking into his school systems to change his grades could get 38 years in jail if found guilty, the Times reports. (ZDNet UK)
Terria wants FTTN profit sharing with govt Jun 23, 2008
Being able to build a data warehouse right from the beginning of a company's life can eliminate some of the pitfalls typically associated with the project, but doesn't necessarily eliminate the most obvious one: uncontrolled data from multiple sources. During a trip to the US four years ago, I rented a car fitted with an XM satellite radio which gave me well over 100 radio stations, each carrying a continuous stream of crystal-clear talk radio or music in a surprising array of genres. (ZDNet.com.au, Australia)
Drug use shows crime problems will continue Jun 18, 2008
Partially funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, the report used arrest data collected and maintained by the State Law Enforcement Division, inmate admissions and drug-testing data from the S.C. Department of Corrections, offender admissions and drug-testing data from the S.C. Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services as well as public health indicators from the Office of Research & Statistics state data warehouse. Arrests for drugs and drug... (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
New Approaches to Business Intelligence Jun 14, 2008
The traditional approach -- cleansing data, gathering it in a data warehouse, then having the IT department create reports against it for business users -- is much too slow for enterprises to remain competitive ... These JavaScript code snippets, or widgets (), can integrate information from multiple sources such as databases, data warehouses, Web services, Google online applications and files, into "anything anywhere on the Web", Kotraba said. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Software maker Bullhorn gets $26m in financing Jun 11, 2008
Netezza has relocated operations to Marlborough Netezza Corp., a provider of data warehouse appliances, said it recently relocated its headquarters from Framingham to Marlborough, prompted by a need to accommodate continuing growth. Netezza is now located in 59,000 square feet of space at 26 Forest St., where it has 200 employees. (Boston Globe)
SAP Looking to Make a Splash Jun 10, 2008
ATB at the time was busy building a business data warehouse and a teller front end. It wasnt until 2006 that Caseys team came together and put out a call to get rid of Synergy. (American Banker)
Next Steps for BI May 28, 2008
It introduced widgits little bits of Javascript code for integrating information from multiple sources (a traditional database and data warehouse but also web services, files, Google online apps, and so on) and deploying corporate data and information to anything and anyplace on the web. You can take this script and open up the avenue of embed-ability with reporting, says Abramson. (eSecurityPlanet)
DATAllegro Named Among Top 200 Private Technology Companies May 23, 2008
May 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro, supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced its placement on Nollenberger Capital Partners' (NCPI) ``Top 200 Private Technology Companies'' list ... Additionally, DATAllegro demonstrated continuous innovation with the introduction of its commodity-based v3 data warehouse appliance and grid technology ... DATAllegro offers the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class... (Primezone Releases)
Tip: Exposing logical attributes with virtual columns May 23, 2008
Data modelers are often faced with the dilemma of how to model logical attributes in their data warehouse schema design ... Conscientious of exponential data growth within the data warehouse, many designers opted to model these attributes in views ... Views and FBIs seemed a viable solution but meant managing additional database objects which led to data warehouse complexity. (SearchOracle.com)
Mining tech gets $14m in $251m free advice scheme May 22, 2008
And the Guinness World Record for the largest data warehouse goes to. Tags. (ZDNet.com.au)
Aktiv Kapital ASA is hosting a Capital Markets Day ... May 20, 2008
Aktiv Kapital is creating Europe's largest non performing debt data warehouse, that enables pioneering scoring and valuation methods. Aktiv Kapital expects the new scoring system to secure a more efficient and focused customer approach, increasing collection and reducing costs going forward. (Fox News)
Corvest Third Expansion Phase Halfway Complete May 18, 2008
A streamlined data warehouse has enabled customers to view inventory levels from Corvest's new websites. The sites, launched on March 31, feature a number of additional benefits to promotional products distributors, including the ability to order products online. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Product review: Jive Software's social enterprise May 14, 2008
plus some very interesting data warehouse reporting. for $50 per seat. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
A Revolution Threatens the Relational Database May 14, 2008
The revolution is being led by the company s in-memory database technology, and up against the wall, with the thwack of the guillotine ringing in the background, is the relational database, and its main ally, the data warehouse. Not to mention a certain relational database and applications competitor of SAP, and by that I don t mean Microsoft. (Datamation)
Local Doctors Receive Prestigious Award May 9, 2008
The Family Health Clinic is the only physician s office in the state to receive the highest level Platinum award and is one of only seven physician practices nationwide to successfully submit quality data electronically to the Centers for Medicare aid Services (CMS) Data Warehouse. The criteria for the awards have been designated as national care priorities by CMS.. (DeRidder Beauregard Daily News, LA)
MicroStrategy Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results May 2, 2008
Using MicroStrategy, RNDC gives suppliers secure access to the data warehouse so that they can improve their products' sales performance and track promotion effectiveness. MicroStrategy Positioned in 'Leaders' Quadrant of Gartner 2008 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms Report: In February 2008, MicroStrategy announced that it was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the 'Leaders' quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report. (PR Newswire)
Hong Leong banks on EDW system Apr 21, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Hong Leong Bank has just implemented one of the largest electronic data warehouse (EDW) upgrades in the country. The upgrades enable the bank to get a single view of its customers, products and services across Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
FCoE catches fire at SNW Apr 16, 2008
Users identify their biggest storage headaches, enterprise search in the year 2012 and Medibank Private implements a data warehouse. . (Computerworld Australia)
Extra bond funds will pay off debt Apr 15, 2008
Approved a contract with the Central Minnesota Educational Research and Development Council to create a data warehouse, where test scores and information related to No Child Left Behind can be accessed in a timely manner. Approved a plan to hire certified athletic trainers for high school athletic events in the district in an effort to curb the amount of injuries acquired during the season. (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
Excel blog tackles binomial distribution and floating point precision Apr 14, 2008
Being able to test the validity of your data can help people make better business decisions - and you don't need a data warehouse or data mining tools to find the answers, Berry. The rest of the post provides a clear and helpful demonstration of how to check binomial probabilities within Excel data. (Accounting Web, UK)
ERP Software Apr 13, 2008
Products include Tapestry(tm), a data warehouse tool to natively read ERP meta data, thus capturing any extensions, customizations and changes that occur when companies install an ERP application. Software runs on UNIX or Windows NT databases. (IntranetJournal)
DATAllegro Enters the Blogosphere Apr 12, 2008
April 11, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro, supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced the launch of its new blog, ``DATA-Beat,'' authored by CEO, Stuart Frost ... The goal is to create a community where customers and others interested in DATAllegro's data warehouse appliance technology can interact to expand their knowledge about the data warehouse appliance market as well as provide their own insights into data warehousing,... (Primezone Releases)
C-M board approves budget Apr 9, 2008
Furniture for the elementary, middle and high schools will be purchased at 5,000 per building, and data warehouse enhancement will cost 7,000 ... Hillbilly wrote on Apr 8, 2008 4:59 PM:" Let's ask ourselves some simple questions. Why does the school have to hire a full-time psychologist to teach the kids about drug awareness? Can't the kids parents do this? Do parents really want their kids to be seeing a psychologist? And if they do why can't they make an appointment? How much does a full-time... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
C-M school board approves budget; awaits voters Apr 8, 2008
Furniture for the elementary, middle and high schools will be purchased at 5,000 per building, and data warehouse enhancement will cost 7,000. There will be no change to instructional programs. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
NCR Thinking Outside the ATM Vestibule Mar 24, 2008
NCR, of course, was reshaped by the September spinoff of , the data warehouse operation that generated almost a quarter of its revenue last year. The transaction was NCR's biggest since Mr. Nuti became its CEO in 2005. (American Banker)
DATAllegro Offers Node-for-Node Trade-in to Teradata Users Mar 18, 2008
March 18, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro, supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced that Teradata users can trade in up to four nodes of a Teradata system and receive up to four nodes of a DATAllegro(tm) data warehouse appliance at no cost ... We put the program together to show our confidence in our technology and believe that through it we are able to help companies get a better performing data warehouse at a lower cost ...... (Primezone Releases)
Sun Set to Bring NSA Tech to Solaris Mar 17, 2008
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)
Specialty Underwriters' Alliance, Inc. Reports 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Mar 7, 2008
Smith concluded, "We accomplished a great deal last year while maintaining solid loss ratios and our strict standards for underwriting and claims. We kept our level of employees at approximately one hundred and implemented a highly scalable state-of-the-art technology platform. We have also implemented a centralized data warehouse that provides a repository for claims, underwriting, finance and actuarial information for analyses of our businesses. In the coming year we intend to expand our... (PR Newswire)
National Intelligence Network Born; Authorities Gain Fast, Expansive Access to Records... Mar 7, 2008
As federal authorities struggled to meet information-sharing mandates after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, police agencies from and to the Washington region poured millions of criminal and investigative records into shared digital repositories called data warehouses, giving investigators and analysts new power to discern links among people, patterns of behavior and other hidden clues ... She told the system to also search data warehouses built by Coplink in and , Calif ... Officials in... (The Drudge Report)
2008 International Women's Day-Interview with AfDB Gender Specialist, Laeticia Mukurasi Mar 4, 2008
Such a tool would entail neither separate budgets for women-specific programmes nor an addition to existing financial reporting systems in the Bank (SAP, COSTAB and DATA WAREHOUSE). Rather it would require an analysis of the impact of Bank investments on women and men. (allAfrica.com)
IBM p570 Server Wins Datamation Product of the Year Award Feb 29, 2008
They deployed two p 570s in July 2007, primarily for use as database servers for Oracle and Sybase IQ Data Warehouse. The company plans to increase its use of p 570s over the coming year. (Datamation)
Northrop Grumman Showcases Health IT Solutions At HIMSS Annual Conference Feb 21, 2008
The company is also developing an integrated data warehouse and bioinformatics framework for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract project, and the corresponding system, the Immunology Database and Access Portal. This scientific data management initiative links genomic, basic scientific and clinical data from various sources to enable scientists to contribute, access and exchange complex, high-quality data sets,... (Primezone Releases)
DATAllegro Announces New Utilities to Enable Easy Integration With and Migration From Teradata Feb 19, 2008
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 19, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro(tm), the supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced a new set of utilities as part of its data warehouse appliance offering. The new utilities are designed to allow companies to easily move data to and from Teradata data warehouses and to migrate applications from Teradata to DATAllegro ... Companies can use DATAllegro and the utilities alongside their existing Teradata data... (Primezone Releases)
Data Warehouse Launches New Wholesale Division Feb 15, 2008
Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Data Warehouse, a TRANZACT company and leading provider of marketing information solutions to the mortgage and financial industries, today announced the formal launch of its Wholesale division () ... Ben Waldshan, founder of Data Warehouse and Executive Vice President with TRANZACT, has made the following appointments for the newly organized division: Ari Davis, Director of Client Services; Todd Johnson, Director of Marketing; Bryan Shetsky, Director of Sales; and Bob... (PR Newswire)
DATAllegro and Coffing Data Warehouse Announce Partnership and OEM Deal Feb 15, 2008
Feb. 14, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro(tm), supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced a new partnership and OEM deal with Coffing Data Warehouse (Coffing DW). As a result, Coffing DW's Nexus query tool will ship with every DATAllegro v3 data warehouse appliance ... In addition, Coffing DW will work with DATAllegro customers who are migrating from Teradata to DATAllegro or who are using DATAllegro alongside Teradata as part of... (Primezone Releases)
Atlanta Market Research Firm Vantedge Group Cuts Research Costs In Half with Software-as-a-Service Model Feb 12, 2008
Announcing the first software-as-a-service model for market research and analytics aimed at saving midmarket companies hundreds of thousands of dollars and providing the advantages of a state of the art intelligence bureau and data warehouse. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
With Cognos In Its Fold, IBM Gets On With BI Integration Feb 11, 2008
For banking, IBM introduced the Financial Risk Insight Solution, which couples the IBM Banking Data Warehouse with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence modules. It's meant to give financial services companies an enterprise-wide view of risk across products, divisions, and geographies. (InformationWeek)
IBM Announce New Data Warehousing Software Feb 3, 2008
Interestingly enough the Warehousing software will be the first in the InfoSphere family, which is anticipated to expand with future updates and additions to the IBM data warehouse portfolio adopting the name. The new software will be available by the end of the first financial quarter in 2008. (IDM.net.au)
MicroStrategy Announces Record Revenues of $351 Million in 2007 Feb 2, 2008
Republic Bank Limited Republic Bank Limited, the leading bank in Trinidad and Tobago and one of the largest in the Eastern Caribbean, has selected MicroStrategy over Business Objects for reporting and analytics for its new data warehouse platform ... Many eBay employees rely on MicroStrategy for enterprise business intelligence reporting and analytics, with reports running against one of the largest Teradata(R) data warehouses in the world. (PR Newswire)
Satyam honcho is China's top techie Jan 29, 2008
He has also worked closely with a non-government organisation Project Hope that focuses on healthcare by contributing free data warehouse solution and -- a fact that may have also been noticed by the Shanghai administration. I'm not surprised. (India Times, India)
Sun eyes SOA data services with MySQL purchase Jan 24, 2008
" For more information Sun may also be looking to acquire an ETL tool vendor, possibly the Talend open source technology, the Forrester analyst said. Sun might also look at a BI vendor acquisition, Kobielus said. Prime BI candidates could be JasperSoft Corp. and Pentaho Corp., both of which are open source, he noted. Buying these technologies would position Sun to come out with its own branded data warehouse appliances, the Forrester analyst concluded. With the MySQL acquisition still pending,... (Search Webservices)
Data Warehouse Supplier Greenplum Pulls In $27 Million Jan 24, 2008
Greenplum produces a data warehouse system using PostgreSQL. It engineers PostgreSQL into a massively parallel system that it calls Bizgres MPP and offers as the commercially supported product, the Greenplum Database ... Greenplum Database and Sun Microsystem's large scale Thumper storage system have been combined together to form the Sun/Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance ... CIO Robert Rapp told Information Week in May 2006 that the airline adopted the data warehouse system as "a very... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Greenplum Closes $27M Series C Financing, Appoints Two Top Execs Jan 22, 2008
Industry recognition: Greenplum was positioned in the "Visionaries" quadrant for Gartner Group's 2007 data warehouse database management magic quadrant report and was named to the Red Herring Global 100 ... Greenplum Database, the company's breakthrough database software product, enables companies to analyze terabytes of information faster and more cost effectively than traditional data warehouse solutions, allowing organizations to fully leverage their data to gain critical insights into the... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
FilesX bares its data restore capabilities Jan 19, 2008
Tracy McDonald, director of IT for data warehouse software startup Calpont Corp., said he uses FilesX mainly to protect data on Exchange servers and is planning to employ Bare Metal Recovery to migrate to a new Exchange server ... " Tracy McDonald, director of IT for data warehouse software startup Calpont Corp., said he uses FilesX mainly to protect data on Exchange servers and is planning to employ Bare Metal Recovery to migrate to a new Exchange server. McDonald said he expects bare-metal... (Search Storage)
Where's the love for UGA football? Jan 16, 2008
Go to the college data warehouse and look it up. Michigan has never beaten Tennesse, Ohio State has never beaten Tenn. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Analytical competition: the intelligent edge Jan 16, 2008
Becoming an 'analytic competitor' means more than plugging forecasting and pattern-recognition programs into your existing BI system or data warehouse ... "We're able to build real-time data warehouses, and systems that consolidate the data," says Kevin Quinn, vice-president for products at Information Builders, now among the largest independent providers following last year's M. ... One of the shortfalls of past modelling and forecasting has been the age of the data it uses series often... (Accounting Web, UK)
Billionaires for Big Government Jan 15, 2008
Catalist: Formerly called Data Warehouse, this group was created by Clinton aide Harold Ickes and Democratic operative Laura Quinn. Ickes is critical of the DNC under Dean and aims to create a sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation that rivals the Republican Party s. Soros put $11 million at Ickes s disposal because he distrusts Dean, the Washington Post reported. (Human Events Online)
DATAllegro Receives Intelligent Enterprise 2008 'Editors' Choice' Award Jan 14, 2008
Jan. 14, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- DATAllegro(tm), the supplier of the most advanced data warehouse appliance on an enterprise-class platform, today announced that it is named among Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards 2008 as one of ``36 Companies to Watch ... Intelligent Enterprise listed DATAllegro in the information management category, stating: ``This firm's open, hardware-independent approach to the data warehouse appliance is catching on ... In February 2007, DATAllegro introduced... (Primezone Releases)
Data warehouse disaster recovery: What's the plan? Jan 9, 2008
Data warehouse disaster recovery: What's the plan. Data warehouse disaster recovery: What's the plan ... Data warehouse disaster recovery: What's the plan. (SearchCIO.com)
Manchester Airport's BI helps lift one bag rule Jan 8, 2008
Bell said Manchester Airport had been using Oracle BI tools on top of an Oracle data warehouse implementation for about 18 months now to support commercial and operational business strategies ... He also said the airport was in the technical phase of upgrading to Oracle's BI enterprise edition: "In March we're looking to give staff on the ground real-time, dashboard access to third-party system data that supports passenger processing without having to put it through a data warehouse," he said. (IT PRO)
Rigor vs. rigor mortis: Adapting education Jan 1, 2008
has developed a data warehouse and hired a data. manager. (Winona Daily News, MN)
The top SOA stories of 2007, part 2 Dec 29, 2007
Helzberg Diamonds built to its data warehouse ... Helzberg Diamonds built to its data warehouse. (Search Webservices)
Software pioneer is 'Johnny Appleseed' of start-ups Dec 23, 2007
"We go to CIOs and ask them, 'Do you have a data warehouse, and are you in pain?' StreamBase is more of a missionary in a new market, competing against the custom code that companies write themselves." Sometimes, the two companies wind up selling to the same customer, using StreamBase's technology to analyze streaming data and then relying on Vertica to store the data. Risley says that the two companies closed a joint sale last week, where Vertica had recommended StreamBase. (Boston Globe)
Travel expense management (2): Improving by numbers Dec 19, 2007
"Data can be exported, and interfaced through to a CRM system or data warehouse," says Tony Evans, sales and development manager at Etap-on-Line, whose Ulysse Tem is claimed to reduce travel management costs by up to 75. The growing number of analytical techniques for expense visualisation and analysis now becoming available from software developers has added to the demand for these to be made available on the Tt end. (Accounting Web, UK)
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)
