QUERYOBJECT VERSION 3.1 SPEEDS DATA MART DESIGN AND UPDATE
QueryObject Systems Corporation has announced the general availability of version 3.1 of the QueryObject System, the high performance data analysis environment that is specialized for rapid analysis of very large volumes of business data. In April, the Company released version 3.0 of the System with a high performance parallel processing data transformation engine running on OS 390, Unix and NT servers, and native access to 17+ production, legacy and warehouse data sources. New Unix and NT deployment servers for Internet, client-server or stand alone and mobile analysis supported industry standard Business Intelligence (BI) tools via ODBC, JDBC and OLE/BD. The recent release of QueryObject System version 3.1 further enhances engine throughput, and speeds data mart design and updates.
"As many large corporations become more customer focused, they find that they need to rapidly analyze millions of rows of customer data," said Philip Russom, director of the data warehousing and business intelligence service at Hurwitz Group. "Organizations with this magnitude of analytic requirement should consider the QueryObject System because it is unique in its ability to quickly generate and load truly massive data stores for online analytic processing (OLAP). The new release enhances its ability to connect to a wide variety of data sources and client tools, making it faster and easier to implement a large-scale analytic system."
"This release focuses on the critical 'time-to-first-query' by making the QueryObjects faster to build and faster to update," added QueryObject Systems' CEO, Robert Thompson. "In addition, we are a partner oriented company with over 80% of our revenue year-to-date involving business partners. Changes in version 3.1 will make it even easier for partners to integrate the QueryObject System as a key component of their turnkey analytical applications."
A new Design Wizard walks the systems administrator through the basic steps in data mart design. Using the standard wizard interface found in most MS Office tools, it is easy to learn and reduces the complexity of design, allowing users to quickly identify their input data, map its fields to dimensions and metrics and refine their dimension definitions. Underlying the wizard is an advanced data mining engine that performs much of the required data mart preparation.
"Most users will be able to get their initial system up and running in a matter of minutes," said Matthew Doering, Senior Vice-president of Software Products, "while still allowing advanced users the flexibility to adjust and fine-tune the design. They can rapidly prototype interactively right in front of the ultimate end-users to ensure that the ultimate design fully meets user requirements."
A new component architecture and control program further reduce QueryObject build times and ease OEM integration efforts.
"Customers building a single QueryObject, and then updating it regularly can now significantly reduce their update times by selectively running only the parts of the QueryObject Engine required for that particular QueryObject," continued Doering. "In some cases this could reduce build times by 50%."
"This will also ease integration of QueryObjects into analytical applications being developed by customers or business partners, by allowing them to drive the building and updating process directly through system API's."
The QueryObject System allows data intensive organizations such as telecommunications, healthcare and insurance, or financial services companies to achieve competitive advantage by analyzing more data ... in more detail ... more quickly ... over the Internet, or within other corporate environments.
The system easily transforms large volumes of business data into a compact, highly distributable data mart a QueryObject - that can then be analyzed using industry standard tools and techniques. Were other technologies build subject-specific data marts whose limited content, fixed schema, moderate dimensionality and high levels of aggregation make them suitable for single user-classes and single applications, the QueryObject's high content, polimorphic schema, and high dimensionality permits multiple user classes to access granular level data in support of multiple applications across the extended enterprise. This enables more efficient data deployment with a reduction in administrative overhead.
The QueryObject is the first true Information Age data structure, optimized for data access and distribution over the Internet. Where most databases were designed for client-server transaction processing, the QueryObject is architeced for Internet data analysis. Its industry-leading design permits large amounts of source 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 consistent analysis of large data volumes and concurrent support of a large user population.
The QueryObject System engine, which transforms production, warehouse or legacy data into QueryObjects, runs on Mainframe, UNIX and Windows NT servers, allowing organizations to save time by processing the data directly on the platform on which it is stored.
The QueryObject Server, running on UNIX or NT, provides open end-user access to the QueryObject data marts. Support for industry data access standards - JDBC, ODBC and OLE/DB - mean that the QueryObject Server provides a powerful analytical back-end to most Business Intelligence tools, increasing their scalability, query speed and ability to support many concurrent users. QueryObject Server is available as a WEB Edition for Internet Business Intelligence (BI); Enterprise Edition for client-server deployments; and Personal Edition for stand alone and mobile computing.
North American pricing for the QO engine, regardless of the number of users, ranges from $50,000 to $275,000 depending on platform. Deployment servers are also processor-priced, beginning at $25,000.
QueryObject Systems Corporation is a publicly held company headquartered in Uniondale, New York with a European distribution subsidiary headquartered in the United Kingdom. Its products are available worldwide through a network of authorized distributors.
For more information about QueryObject Systems Corporation and its technologies, visit the Web site at http://www.queryobject.com.