EntelliCache

In a May 2006 white paper by Claudia Imhoff on Enterprise Business Intelligence, scalability and query response were identified as being critical to an enterprise operational BI capability. Claudia said "Scalability is now a mandatory requirement in any BI technology, whether it is in the processing and integration of data, storage of massive volumes, or retrieval of query responses. And finally, for operational BI to be useful in operational situations, its query performance must mimic or emulate response times in operational systems – that is, sub-second to just a few seconds to return data from a query."

EntelliCache meets both of these critical issues head on and was designed from the ground up with scalability and query performance in mind.

View Claudia Imhoff's white paper at http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/3082

According to Shaku Atre of the Business Intelligence Network, the biggest problem (albeit a desirable one) an organization has to face involves growth. EntelliCache will enable your Data warehouse and Business Intelligence solution to grow as the business needs dictate. The capability to scale out with inexpensive rack grade hardware eliminates the need for massive up front investments and is proven to achieve lower concurrency due to improved response times and redundancy for high availability.

Atre also noted that a solution has to support not only predefined, simple queries on summary data, but also ad hoc complex queries and reports on detailed data. It must also be scalable because rapid changes will occur in:

• Data volume
• Updating frequencies
• Data access patterns
• Number of reports and queries
• Number of people accessing the BI target databases
• Number of tools running against the BI target databases
• Number of operational systems feeding the BI target databases

No less than 10 man years of real world experience have been invested in EntelliCache. Proven software and data management techniques that have been tried and tested in very large and difficult environments provide the foundation that EntelliCache is based upon.

See Shaku Atre's full article at http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/index.php?cid=2849

According to Claudia Imhoff, one of the trends taking place in Business Intelligence is a move towards operational or right time BI. A recent article on beyenetwork.com states "The big push in BI analytics is to shorten the latency between when a business event happens and an action is taken. According to Dick Hackathorn, this latency has three components – data preparation latency (the time it takes to get the data ready for analysis), analysis latency (the time it takes to get the results of an analytic operation) and decision latency (the time it takes for the person receiving the results to understand what action must be taken). For operational business intelligence to be effective, these three latencies must be reduced to nearly zero time."

EntelliCache can help solve the second of the three components, analysis latency, by allowing a user to ask the ad hoc questions needed to solve their business problem and expect results in seconds, not minutes.

Traditionally, business intelligence has been limited to executive management in the form of dashboards, and power users in the form of ad hoc query capability, with everyone else left holding onto a handful of static, canned reports. The reason for this is simple: Most BI and reporting solutions are not responsive enough to handle the volume and diversity necessary to support an operational BI solution. In a recent article written by Steve Ranger for Silicon.com, Eric Rogge, research director with Ventana Research, said “The new users are the front-line workers that are dealing with daily operations. There are these little decisions that people make on a daily basis, hundreds of thousands in an organization.”

EntelliCache is a key component in taking business intelligence to the masses and interpreting the story that your companies data is telling.David Small, VP of international operations at Information Builders, said companies are looking to get more useful information out of their internal