Daily Archives: February 10, 2010

Demand intelligence is about leveraging data/information for more efficient and effective business decision making. Utilizing demand intelligence improves the precision of pricing, product assortments, channel/store placement, and promotion, which are … Continue reading →

HP and Oracle have recently announced the HP Oracle Database Machine. This has been positioned by Oracle as a competitor to Netezza and in this paper we examine the extent to which this is true and, if it is, where and when it might make sense to use t… Continue reading →

Today’s data warehousing and business intelligence environments increasingly require the online sharing of data among multiple users at the same time. As organizations drive to make business intelligence more operational, they are extending access to b… Continue reading →

While relational databases have become critically important in business applications and web services, they have played a relatively minor role in scientific computing, which has generally been concerned with modeling and simulation activities. However… Continue reading →

Netezza’s vision is of a seamless platform for analytics constructed from multiple appliances, each specialized to its task, communicating with one another in a globally scalable grid appearing to the users as a cloud. The appliances are easy to use an… Continue reading →

The macro-economic challenges of the late 2000′s have, in many ways, increased the sense of urgency in retailing. It was hard before the recession to avoid markdowns,migrate toward localized assortments, fight out-of-stocks, and work on pricing and pro… Continue reading →

Location information is embedded in nearly every data point and transaction that matters to a business. Utilizing this wealth of information in business intelligence (BI) analytics presents an opportunity for significant differentiation in nearly every… Continue reading →

Skyrocketing power costs and finite power availability are forcing many companies to re-examine their IT strategies and budgets. With their intense workload — dozens or hundreds of processors and large numbers of spinning disk drives straining ov… Continue reading →

Netezza transforms the data warehouse and analytics landscape with a platform built to deliver extreme, industry-leading price-performance with appliance simplicity for years to come. It’s a new frontier in advanced analytics, with the ability to carry… Continue reading →

Innovation in the use of online data via traditional web analytics solutions has plateaued – focusing primarily on reporting basic facts about aggregated site usage. From long experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Business In… Continue reading →