QueryObject Launches Test of QueryObject System v.4.0

QueryObject Systems Corporation announced at DCI's Data Warehouse World, the North American launch of a full scale market testing program for QueryObject System v4.0. This new QueryObject Distributed Replication Server permits on-demand streaming of analytical data over the Internet to Business Intelligence (BI) client tools. The open beta program, for users of:

• BrioQuery from BrioTechnology,
• Business Objects,
• Improptu from Cognos,
• BIQuery from Hummingbird,
• and other open ODBC tools such as Microsoft MSQuery, allows users to access QueryObject DataMarts on a protected Web site. Users then pull extracts of that data over the Internet, cache it, and analyze it locally using the client-side tools that they currently own. In the past, these tools were excluded from Internet-based analysis because they were designed to work only with local or client-server data sources.

"Following the European open beta launched two weeks ago in London, this represents a full-fledged market test of breakthrough, patent pending Internet infrastructure technology," said QueryObject CEO Robert Thompson. "The dominant architecture for Internet Business Intelligence assumes that the data and analysis processes are server-based, and only the display context is local to the user. QueryObject v4.0 distributed replication technology in effect Internet-enables the data so that it can be streamed via the Internet to local tools for local analysis. Where other vendors have taken the approach of `Web-enabling BI tools', QueryObject `Web-enables the data' so that it Internet-empowers an entire class of distributed analytical applications for eBusinesses and traditional commerce."

Industry Reaction

Current Analysis: "While perhaps not as widely known as some of its competitors, the QueryObject System utilizes its specialized and patentpending data compression and indexing technology to efficiently and effectively store and distribute large volumes of data," said Mike Schiff, Director of DataWarehousing and Business Intelligence Strategies at Current Analysis. "The QueryObject System can be used to create data marts which serve as the foundation for powerful analytic applications that can be accessed by a wide variety of decision support tools."

IDC: "The QueryObject system provides a fresh approach to information access and delivery over the Web," said Henry Morris, VP for Data Warehousing and Knowledge Management at IDC. "Its unique data compression technology is a good match for the distributed topology of the Web, enabling fast shipping of data directly to users to be accessed locally by popular end user tools. This opens up many possibilities for new types of Web-centric analytic applications."

META Group: "Organizations are challenged with meeting performance and scalability criteria for enabling analytics in the enterprise and e-business environments through traditional centralized OLAP and RDBMS approaches," added Mark A. Smith, Program Director, Application Delivery Strategies, META Group. "QueryObject has introduced an innovative and complementary approach to distribute analytical processing through leveraging existing investments and meeting the demands and business needs of Customer Relationship and Supply Chain Management."

Aberdeen Group: "This is an important step in the company's mission to establish the QueryObject as the leading analytical database for Internet business analysis," commented Bob Moran, vice president, DSS Research, Enterprise Business Applications at the Aberdeen Group. "In earlier releases, QueryObject Systems redefined many boundaries in terms of the amount of content that can be stored in a multidimensional data structure and used effectively on the Internet. With this release, the company extends the Internet BI universe with several innovations in Internet access, not the least of which is now allowing specialist client tools to access this low-latency, multidimensional database."

QueryObject Distributed Replication Server Features

QueryObject Server v4.0 hosts QueryObject DataMarts on a LINUX, UNIX, or NT WEB server. When users with permission access the site, they can chose one or more QueryObjects and establish an Internet connection. A small, specialized ODBC driver (ODBO in a subsequent release) is then installed on the client machine. When the client tool is activated, it connects to this ODBC data source in the normal way, and can view the metadata in normal system tables. To the tool, it appears as if the data source is local to that machine, not across the Internet.

Users formulate their queries as usual, and the query requests are passed via the driver to the QueryObject Distributed Replication Server, where the requested data is extracted as a miniature QueryObject and rapidly transferred over the Internet to the client where it is cached in the local file system. Subsequent queries from within this universe are instantly handled locally. Additional queries extract only the additive data from the server, stream it to the client and merge it into the existing local QueryObject. This process is repeated for the full query session and the local QueryObject remains in cache so that disconnected analysis is possible.

Key features of the process are:

• highly scaleable nature of the server QueryObject which can contain hundreds of millions of rows of source data
• efficient size of the extracted QueryObject means initial queries are usually handled in seconds
• ability to do subsequent queries locally and to extract and merge additional data means subsequent queries are equally fast or faster
• local processing means that a large number of concurrent users can be working with the same server QueryObject
• small (2mb) downloaded ODBC connection means that any industry standards compliant tool can now work over the Internet

Market Test Participants Can Win MP3 Player

The beta program allows participants to access sample QueryObject DataMarts at www.queryobject.com/beta and run local analysis on data extracts from those DataMarts using a BI client tool such as BrioQuery, BusinessObjects, Impromptu, BIQuery, or any other ODBC compliant tool.

"This technology will have as profound an effect on the distribution of analytical data over the Internet as MP3 has had on music distribution," commented Matthew Doering, SVP Technology for QueryObject.

"That's why we are offering participants in the open beta a chance to win an MP3 player when they submit their testing questionnaires."

About the QueryObject System

The QueryObject System allows data intensive organizations such as eBusinesses, telecommunications, healthcare and insurance, or financial services companies to achieve a competitive advantage by analyzing more data ...in more detail ...more quickly...over the Internet, or within other corporate environments.

The QueryObject is the first true Information Age data structure, optimized for Internet data access and distribution. Where most databases were designed for client-server transaction processing, the QueryObject is architected for Internet data analysis:

• designed to work on Internet scale, both in terms of data volumes and number of users
• at Internet velocity, with fast Data Mart load times, and query at the speed of thought
• over server-centric or distributed network caching Internet architectures
• in support of any industry standard analysis tools
• while maintaining data privacy and security

Its industry leading design permits very large amounts of behavioral data to be efficiently stored as a densely compressed loss-less mass, while a unique polynomial index provides instant, random access to both the cross-dimensional totals and - via match keys - to the supporting transaction level data. The benefits are:

• fast builds, and
• fast, consistent analysis of large data volumes
• by large, concurrent user populations.
• using any industry standards analytical tools

Unique to the QueryObject System is the ability efficiently stream analytical data, on demand, over the Internet to analytical tools or applications, facilitating the first truly networked Internet Information Architecture.

The QueryObject Engine, which transforms any production data source into QueryObject DataMarts, runs on Mainframe, UNIX, and Windows NT servers, with native access to 22+ databases including SAP and PeopleSoft, allowing organizations to save time by processing business data directly on the platform on which it is created or stored.

The QueryObject Server, running on UNIX, LINUX,or Windows NT, provides open end-user access to the resulting QueryObject data marts. Support for industry data access standards - JDBC, ODBC, and OLE/DB - means that the QueryObject Server provides a powerful analytical back-end to most Business Intelligence and e-Business Intelligence tools and applications, increasing their volume scaleability, query speed and ability to support many concurrent users.

The QueryObject Distributed Replication Server actually "Internet-enables" analytical data, so that it can streamed over the Internet, Web-enabling BI client tools. This distributed network caching feature means that the QueryObject architecture can support virtually unlimited numbers of concurrent Internet users, each using their personal choice of desktop BI clients.

The QueryObject WEB Server complements QueryObject server strengths by providing Web-based users with FREE, downloadable access to a multidimensional Java client that turns standard browsers into flexible, intuitive, analytical clients allowing organizations to extend data access beyond their traditional BI communities without any additional per-seat costs.

About QueryObject Systems Corporation

QueryObject Systems Corporation is a publicly held company headquartered in Roslyn Heights, NY with a European distribution subsidiary headquartered in Reading, the United Kingdom. Its scaleable Internet analytical technologies are available worldwide through a network of authorized distributors.

About internetQueryObject Corporation

internetQueryObject Corporation (doing business as iQO), also headquartered in Roslyn Heights, is a subsidiary of QueryObject Systems Corporation specializing in scaleable Internet analytical applications for Web analysis and e-Commerce.

For more information about QueryObject Systems Corporation and its technologies, or iQO, visit the companies' Web sites at www.queryobject.com and www.iqo.com.

Contact QueryObject Systems Corporation, Robert Thompson, 516-228-8500 x149, rthompson@queryobject.com.