When Office Depot was shopping for a 4-terabyte data warehouse in mid-1999, it chose Teradata over IBM.
By creating a framework to undertand member, employer and proivder data, the company was able to move from a claims-centric data warehouse architecture to one that is information-based and enables them to integrate the data sources faster, allowing the use of more comprehensive information.
Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, uses StreamBase, along with Hadoop, Netezza (the IBM-acquired data warehouse) and Microstrategies.
So, for example, he says, the company has an off-the-shelf data warehouse tool.
Its column-storebased data warehouse has enabled Airtel Vodafone to gain market share and become a major player in the European telecommunications sector.
The results of the analysis can enable a new class of applications for the enterprise, or can be used to enrich existing data warehouse or master-data implementations.
Its sprawling network of warehouse-size data centers around the world scrapes and analyzes the Web for every clue to how we search for what's out there.
In other cases the fetish is realized in a huge expansion of a data warehouse that is ill-suited to handle the multi-structured form of most new big data sets.
The data warehouse converts data into knowledge, turning real-world facts, via an interface, into valuable business intelligence.
We all believe that the traditional enterprise data warehouse (EDW) will evolve from being relational to non-relational within five to 10 years.
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Earlier this year when Dallas-based Credit Union of Texas decided to pitch its auto-lease product to its members, it consulted its IBM data warehouse.
Or online-shopping sites with real-time inventory synchronization, or real-time banking and investment systems, or thousands of other examples of the new face of the new data warehouse: always on, open to as many as possible, blindingly fast, and increasingly designed for the consumer as much as for the hard-core data junkie.
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