Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) plans to consolidate its 762 data marts around the world into a single enterprise data warehouse, according to the head of the company. The move is a way for HP to both get a ...

As companies work to integrate new and legacy application systems, the cost of that effort continues to climb – already it consumes about 35% of the total cost of installing, writing or modifying an ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. shook up the business intelligence world yesterday when it announced that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had added HP’s new data warehouse technology to its IT landscape. Wal-Mart, which is ...

Its only fitting that the largest retailer should have the worlds largest database, but at more than one-half a petabyte, thats a lot of information, even for Wal-Mart. The vendor that is supporting ...

Users are generally on their own when it comes to building the meta data foundation for data marts due to the lack of centralized repositories or standards for meta data content/formats. Here are a ...

A database designed to support decision making in an organization. Data from the production databases are copied to the data warehouse so that queries can be performed without disturbing the ...

The SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse initiative is Microsoft's latest push into the market for data warehouse systems that can handle tens, and even hundreds, of terabytes of data. Sometime in the ...

Since Data Warehouses are optimized for quick and simple reporting, picking the right size for the warehouse is a key component of making the project pay off. This simple calculator will help with ...