IBM NUMA-Q and NDC Health Information Services Win Data Warehousing Award
Honored with DM Review’s 1999 World Class Solution Award for Data Warehouse Design, Administration & Management
BEAVERTON, Ore. (October 12, 1999) – The IBM NUMA-Q server brand, formerly Sequent, has been awarded the 1999 World Class Solution Award from DM Review magazine for the successful data warehouse implementation at its customer NDC Health Information Services.
The only server vendor to win an award this year, IBM took top honors in the category of data warehouse design, administration and management.
NDC Health Information Services is a leading provider of electronic information solutions that help its customers be more successful in meeting today’s evolving business challenges including decision-support, administration and sales and marketing.
The award-winning dynamic warehouse solution, developed by NDC, is an expandable application designed to provide data load and aggregate processing for NDC’s terabyte-sized data warehouse. It provides NDC’s numerous customers with the industry’s most current decision-support information.
The application provides the ability to quickly implement terabyte-sized warehouses and information services without having to design, develop and test new software, saving time and money. As a result, NDC has reduced the cost of implementing new, large-scale custom data warehouses. The application is based on IBM NUMA-Q 2000 data center servers running the Oracle 8i database
Data warehouses combine server and storage hardware, database software and analysis tools to function as central collection points for information on a company’s customers, products and all the transactions in between.
Demand for data warehouses is being driven by marketers, salespeople, financial analysts and customer service managers across all industries as they prize the results of analysis, or ‘mining,’ performed on the data in the warehouse. These results offer what has come to be known as business intelligence (BI), revealing hidden clues on what products and services to sell, to whom, how, and when.
“The NUMA-Q servers are off to a strong start as the newest addition to IBM’s wide-ranging family of BI-ready servers,” said Ben Barnes, general manager, IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions.
Source: IBM