BI FROM PAGE 22 ager of BI at HP. matica, IBM and others.
are looking to enable the “What’s going on out IBM also is working on its
entire cycle of performance there is equipment that own BI initiatives, designed
management—planning, does [BI] is too expensive to move the company and
goal setting, modeling, [and] too hard to upgrade, its customers into the next
monitoring and reporting and maintenance is too wave of BI, beyond analysis
back.” expensive,” said Barnes, and reporting, said Karen
SAP is taking a different in Palo Alto, Calif. “Another Parrish, vice president of
approach. While it’s work- thing we’ve found is we’ve Business Intelligence Solu-ing to infuse BI capabilities made this too complex. tions for IBM, in Armonk,
at the application level, the [Neoview] will be pre- N. Y.
company has also devel- configured to an industry Called the dynamics
oped a BI accelerator that or workload and applica- warehousing strategy,
marries the appliance con- tion. We will size the cus- IBM is working to enable
cept with analytics, using tomers’ applications—how users to analyze informa-in-memory technology for much data they have to tion—including unstruc-much faster query capabili- analyze, how many users tured data—as part of a
ties. are accessing [the applica- business process. “What
Building on its Knights- tions], what type of query- sits in a repository is rela-
bridge acquisition, HP ing—thenpreconfigure[an tional in nature; you’re
plans to announce April 24 appliance], integrate it, test not able to analyze e-mail,
a new product, Neoview, it and ship it to the cus- voice and all the other data
a preconfigured bundle tomer.” that’s really relevant,” said
of hardware and software Neoview will have capa- Parrish.
from HP and its BI part- bilities from HP and its Microsoft has beenmak- phase, said AMR’s Hagerty,
ners, said Ben Barnes, vice E T L (ext ract, tr ansf or m ing a BI market push for i s P e r f o r m a n c e P o i n t
president and general man- and load) partners Infor- sever al years. The next Server, an analytic applica-
tion environment expected
to be available midyear that
Oracle, Sun team on warehousing will bring “a whole layer of
analytics” that will enable
users to build their own BI-
By Brian Prince Oracle, in Redwood Shores, Calif. “They’re based applications through
Oracle and sun microsystems are designed to help take the risk out of build- Microsoft technology.
teaming up on information appliance ing a data warehouse that can meet short- The concept of a bunch
foundations to make it easier for joint term requirements and provide a path for of converging factors is
customers to deploy data warehousing future growth.” bringing about what IBM’s
tools based on Oracle’s Database 10g and As part of Oracle’s Information Appli- Parrish refers to as the cusp
Sun’s servers, StorageTek disk arrays and ance Initiative—a partnership between of the third generation of
Solaris 10 operating system. Oracle and hardware vendors aimed BI. “We’re clearly in the
The Oracle-Sun Information Appli- at simplifying data warehouse deploy- second generation now—
ance Foundations, announced March ments—the reference configurations it’s all about query and
27, are reference configurations that combine CPU resources, memory, I/O reporting. It’s where we’ve
provide a recommended database, server bandwidth, and disks designed to pre- been for a long time,” she
and storage mix for meeting custom- vent performance or capacity bottlenecks. said. “We really believe the
ers’ specific requirements, said Oracle These configurations can handle data third generation is upon
officials. warehouses ranging from 300GB to 10TB, us. Compliance is one of
Using a data warehouse tool based on an Oracle officials said. the reasons it’s upon us.
Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Foun- The Oracle-Sun Information Appliance Banks, they don’t say [com-dation can streamline data warehouse Foundations offer multiple solutions for pliance] is only relevant
implementations, the officials said. each set of requirements, allowing custom- for information that sits in
“These foundations provide our custom- ers to choose among single-server systems, a relational database. It’s
ers a choice of fast, scalable and reliable clustered server configurations based on all about data, like e-mail,
solutions to run their data warehousing SPARC or Advanced Micro Devices tech- that’s in many forms and
systems,” said Willie Hardie, vice presi- nology, andrunning Solaris or other oper- we have to look at all the
dent of database product marketing for ating systems. ´ data.” ´
