WHITE PAPER - This paper compares traditional architecture Business Intelligence (BI) environments, physically layered data warehousing based on traditional general-purpose relational databases, to new specialized analytic databases. It argues that these new databases enable previously impossible analyses and often lower cost of implementation.
Posted: August 28, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - The ParAccel Analytic Database™ (PADB) is a new-generation relational database management system that combines leading-edge innovations with best practices to deliver the fastest, simplest, most cost-effective platform for analytic processing. This paper describes the high level architecture and key features of the PADB system.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: June 26, 2009


Topics:  Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Management Software | Databases | Real-time Analytics | SAN

ANALYST REPORT - In an ongoing business intelligence project, the new required updates pile up at a steady or accelerating rate, while the effort to make each change grows as the system grows more complex. The inevitable result is a growing backlog of unmet business needs. That build-up is the BI Log Jam. Read this analyst report to learn how to break the cycle.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Warehouses | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Operational Support Systems

ANALYST REPORT - Operational systems and analytical systems are on a convergent path. The artificial divide between operations and analysis is closing rapidly as a combined result of Moore's law and technological innovation. This promising development is leading to real reductions in latency of operations and the creation of time itself for decision-makers.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: June 26, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Decision Support Systems | Operational Metrics (Systems) | Operational Support Systems

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - The Scalable Analytic Appliance (SAA), powered by ParAccel and EMC, is a tightly integrated analytic database appliance. It brings together the performance and price-performance advantages of the ParAccel Analytic Database™ (PADB) with the enterprise reliability and feature set common in today's midrange SAN storage systems.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: May 18, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Replication | Data Warehouses | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Real-time Analytics | SAN

WHITE PAPER - A columnar data base is a data base arranged to optimize data analysis, but how? What is a columnar database really? This document presents the basic concepts of columnar databases in a straightforward manner so anyone who is involved with data, business or technical, can understand their purpose and application.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Management | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Decision Support Databases | Decision Support Systems | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management

WHITE PAPER - As the speed of business intensifies, C-level executives are struggling to implement effective strategies that give their companies a competitive edge. Operational Strategy and Operations Management (OM) are two business fields that work together to help executives set and manage business strategy based on quantitative analysis, not gut feel.
Posted: June 26, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Activity Monitoring | Business Intelligence | Business Metrics | Business Performance Management | Data Warehouses | Real-time Analytics | Retail Trade Industry | Telecommunications Industry