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, 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 award-winning 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 customers with current decision-support information.
The application provides the ability to implement terabyte-sized warehouses and information services without having to design, develop, and test new software. 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 other transactions.
Demand for data warehouses is being driven by marketers, salespeople, financial analysts, and customer service managers across all industries. The 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.
"To meet our customers' rapidly expanding need for decision-support information, we teamed with IBM to develop the dynamic warehouse application -- saving time and reducing costs. We are pleased to be recognized by DM Review for our efforts with IBM NUMA-Q in implementing the dynamic warehouse solution," said Bob Brown, president and general manager of NDC's Information Solutions Group.
IBM NUMA-Q has garnered several industry awards for its leading data warehousing solutions, including the 1996, 1997, and 1998 Best Practices Awards and the 1998 Leadership in Data Warehousing Award from The Data Warehousing Institute; a 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Award for customer Lucent Technologies' Emergency 9-1-1 Database; and a pair of grand prize awards from Winter Corporations' VLDB program for customer Metromail's large database implementation.
For further information, phone the IBM NUMA-Q Brand at 503/626-5700 or 800/257-9044 or visit the web site at http://www.ibm.com/servers/.