QueryObject System Version 3.0 Targeted to High Volume
Data Analysis; New release Adds Enhanced Data Access;
Reduces Data Mart Build Times
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QueryObject Systems Corporation has announced the release of Version 3.0 of the QueryObject System software. This new version of the System will allow data intensive industries such as Telecommunications, Healthcare and Insurance, and Financial Services to more rapidly analyze larger volumes of corporate data than is possible using other data mart systems.
The version 3.0 QueryObject Engine, which builds the high-content QueryObject data marts, can now do so directly from more than seventeen relational and non-relational data sources with full support for heterogeneous joins. The single pass loader allows the Engine to process increased volumes of data into a QueryObject while substantially reducing build times--typically to well within normal production shift windows.
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"The QueryObject System takes a unique mathematical approach to analytical data storage, which has proved to be an efficient way for organizations to prepare high volumes of data for analysis," says Philip Russom, Director of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Service at Hurwitz Group. "This release, with its direct connectivity to a wide range of data sources and improved system throughput, adds to the product's appeal."
Dave Tyrrell, Telco Sun Division, of Computacenter, the largest UK owned distributed IT systems and services company and the largest reseller of Sun systems adds "Our client was very impressed with the QueryObject System environment and the performance benchmarks attained on the Sun Starfire E10000 enterprise server. The product copes extremely well with the massive data volumes that telecommunications companies have to deal with and delivers real benefits to the business. QueryObject System compliments our approach to solution led propositions and supports our mission to deliver competitive advantage to our customers."
"As a long time QueryObject System user I am very familiar with its unique ability to support rapid analysis of very large data volumes," notes Joseph Furnia, President of InteliTech. "The performance improvements in V 3.0 are going to yield even faster load and build times. The increased database access will mean the system is applicable virtually across all platforms and all commonly used data sources."
QueryObject Engine, Version 3.0 Features
The QueryObject Engine, Version 3.0 features single pass data loading into the QueryObject ReadyFile. This reduces the time to load data from production data sources into the QueryObject System. Additional speed enhancements are achieved through the optional QueryObject Merge and Union capabilities. These capabilities allow the user to start analyzing data sub-sets before the final aggregated QueryObject structure is completed.
Native access to source data, including the ability to perform heterogeneous joins is accomplished through ISG's Navigator, which is included with the Engine. Supported relational data sources include DB2, DBMS, Informix, Ingres, relational ODBC and OLE/DB data sources, Oracle, RdbSQL, Redbrick, SQL/MP, SQLServer and Sybase. Supporter non-relational data sources include C-ISAM/D-ISAM, delimited text files, Enscribe, MUMPS, ADABASE, flat files, non-SQL OLE/DB sources and VSAM.
Version 3.0 runs on NT 4.0, Sun Unix, Solaris version 5.6, Dec True 64, HP-UX version 10.29 and SNI Reliant Unix-M version 5.43. It will be released in April on MVS OS/390 (currently the only OLAP engine to run on MVS class servers).
About the QueryObject System
The QueryObject System allows organizations to achieve competitive advantage by rapidly analyzing very large volumes of complex business data over Internets or corporate networks, or on stand-alone or mobile PCs.
The system easily transforms source data into a compact, highly distributable data mart - a QueryObject - that can be analyzed using industry standard tools and techniques. Where other products store data physically, the QueryObject System produces an analytical object that uniquely represents complex data relationships as polynomial equations. This resulting QueryObject is a small efficient mathematical index of all the relevant dimensions and metrics, including direct keys back to the granular source data
The QueryObject provides a high number of concurrent users with more responsive access to higher information volumes than is possible using traditional data marts, while maintaining a proportionally smaller, easier to distribute, footprint. The polymorphic nature of the QueryObject schema allows simultaneous access - through an ODBC, JDBC and OLE/DB interface - by most industry-standard analytical tools and techniques including spreadsheets, ad hoc queries, multidimensional analysis and data mining.
QueryObject data marts are distributed to UNIX or NT WEB or LAN Servers or to desktop or laptop clients, for user analysis. North American pricing for the engine, regardless of the number of users, ranges from $50,000 to $275,000 depending on platform. Deployment servers are priced based on usage.
About QueryObject Systems Corporation
QueryObject Systems Corporation is a publicly held company headquartered in Uniondale, New York, USA and with a wholly owned European subsidiary headquartered in the United Kingdom.
For more information about QueryObject Systems Corporation and its technologies, visit the Web site at http://www.queryobject.com.