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Customers Moving Away from Batch Data Warehousing

on Jan 29 in Database miscellaneous, Use cases posted by Dave Menninger

In last week’s webinar on Warehousing for Low Latency Analytics we polled our audience to see what their desired level of latency was versus the existing level of latency in their warehouses. The results were surprising – both to our featured speaker, Philip Howard of Bloor Research and to me. I expected an interest in reducing the latency in data warehouses, but I didn’t expect the magnitude of the shift to be as large as it was.

Five Tools for High Velocity Analytics

on Jan 06 in Database miscellaneous, Use cases posted , , by Shilpa Lawande

Previously Omer Trajman wrote about a trend we’ve been observing towards integrating business intelligence and analytics into day to day business. This is in contrast to more traditional back office business intelligence that has been around for decades. In this post we take a look at the tools required to achieve “high velocity” analytics. What are the technologies that are important for high velocity analytics and the defining characteristics of these technologies?

Vertica 3.5 FlexStore(TM): The next generation of Column-stores

on Dec 03 in Database architecture, Database innovation posted by Shilpa Lawande

Last month Vertica delivered release 3.5 of our analytic database software. Over the past few years, Vertica has continued to innovate and mature its core database functionality with major releases every 6 months. I would like to thank all our customers and partners whose feedback has been instrumental in developing our product. The centerpiece of [...]

Survey Says: Communication Service Providers (& Others) Need Better Real Time Reporting

on Nov 19 in Conferences & events, Database architecture, Use cases posted , , by Dave Menninger

Last week Vertica hosted a webinar targeted primarily to communication service providers (CSPs). Hundreds of participants tuned in to hear what Comcast, Level(3) and Sigma Systems had to say about the data management challenges facing CSPs today and what new technologies and best practices are on the horizon for 2010. Two things were clear based on the survey questions asked during the webinar: CSPs need more real-time reporting capabilities and they are considering specialized DBMS architectures to deliver more capabilities to their users.

High Velocity Analytics

on Nov 12 in Database innovation, Use cases posted , , by Omer Trajman

I recently gave a talk at the SDForum Business Intelligence Special Interest Group on the evolution of BI from batch-oriented to high velocity analytics. The premise of my talk is based on observing a common set of characteristics in many of our customer implementations. Business intelligence (or analytics as many now call it) originated as a monthly, weekly and more recently nightly batch process often associated with back office functions where numbers were collected from numerous systems and crunched to evaluate the state of the business. This periodic, batch oriented BI continues to take place today in some of the world’s most successful companies and it is an important part of the business. But if the reports are a day late it has very little impact on day to day operations.

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