Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Intelligence
Presented by
•Multi-dimensional analysis
Tactical •Status reporting
•Easy access to data via the intranet
•Traditional Applications
●Sales (CRM)
Grid / On Demand
Over 50% increase in
Linux spending
Off Shore
Source:
Disaster Recovery
FT Ventures RFG
Linux Survey 2004of top
Financial Services
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Institutions
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Information Explosion
• Transaction rates in e-commerce, securities trading,
credit card purchases, increased by 40% last year
generating operational data trails
• Proliferation of historical and partner/external data
sources provide additional information resources
impacting business operations and decisions
• Firms retain 70% more detail data per year for
operational control, decision support and regulatory
reporting
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Compliance
• Compliance is the fastest growing component of IT
budgets in 2004
• US Corporations require programs for:
– SARBOX 404 / 409 • Consolidated
– HIPAA / GLBA Warehouses and
Operational data Stores
– AML/ATF
– Basel 2 / Operational Risk
APIs
Reduce reliance on
Clustering Linux complex legacy
Security architecture
Performance Flexibility to
Scalability Control IT
Innovation
Serviceability Destiny
Technology Time to Market
Architecture
Strategy
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New Economics in BI Platforms
Accepted, popular, open source OS Skills, tools, support, reliability,
Platform for Database and underly the platform with community
Applications costs
Scale-out Database Software Effectively scales to hundreds of
Architectures SMP nodes
Information efficiently delivered
Web distribution of data wherever it is needed
Information access available across
Web-based development the enterprise
Structure and timeliness available to
Inquiry and production reporting in a use data as intelligence, enabling
common tool the enterprise
The new BI platforms improve both the top and bottom lines