Sybase Analytics

The BI and analytics environments that support business decision-makers require greater capability, reach, and versatility than ever before. Sybase IQ turns your information into better decisions, enabling you to gain the answers and insights that will drive your business forward.

The competitive playing field is changing dramatically. Top-performing companies are replacing gut-feel with data-driven decision and analysis. Three expansive forces are re-shaping the environment in which companies innovate and compete: the growing amount of data created and captured, the proliferation of mobile devices, and the resulting increase in action points made possible in part through ubiquitous mobility and cloud computing. As companies seek answers to which markets to pursue, which customers to serve, how to maximize profits, or where to optimize efficiencies, they will push existing systems far past their limitations. Today’s BI and analytics systems must be able to keep pace with massive volumes of data, adapt easily to evolving requirements, and serve a growing number of users, often via the Web or mobile devices.

As the market’s original and most widely used column-based analytics server, Sybase IQ powers the most demanding BI and analytics environments. Sybase IQ sets the standard for performance, flexible scalability, security, manageability, and affordability. Sybase IQ’s scalable, grid-based columnar architecture and patented data compression technology have made it the solution of choice for more than 1800 customers (and more than 3200 installations) worldwide. Recent additions to Sybase IQ’s robust set of capabilities include in-database analytics, data partitioning for information lifecycle management, and flexible assignment of read and write nodes.

Now, with version 15.2, Sybase IQ continues to extend the capability, reach, and versatility of analytics environments:

• Text Search and Analysis
• Query Federation
• Web-Enabled Analytics
• Real-Time Loading

Text Search and Analysis

Businesses can no longer afford to allow key insights to remain locked in e-mail, file systems, and other unstructured formats. To open up these assets, Sybase IQ provides:

•      The ability to search for words and phrases within text data

•      The ability to perform Boolean and proximity searches

•      The ability to score the frequency with which a term occurs within a document.

Don’t miss our webcast, The Critical Role of Text Analytics in the BI Ecosystem.

Query Federation

Results-driven businesses demand new ways to overcome organizational and structural limits to accessing the information they need. To meet this challenge, Sybase IQ provides the ability to federate queries across both Sybase IQ and external data sources: This gives organizations:

• A greater reach of analysis and understanding across the organization
• Query capability expanded into highly secure environments with no compromise to security
• Real-time access to previously unavailable information, including from datasets which cannot be moved or copied

Web-Enabled Analytics

A key component of meeting ever-changing business demands is an analytics infrastructure that is responsive to the evolution of how, when, and why businesses use analytics as well as the prevailing technologies used to meet these demands. For example, businesses need an analytics environment that is Web 2.0 app-friendly, including support for the major Web development tools. Sybase IQ provides support for the most common and preferred programming languages for developing Web applications:

• Python
• PERL
• PHP
• ADO.net
• OLE-DB

Real-Time Loading

Business decision-makers demand access to mission-critical information delivered both when and how they need it. Sybase IQ 15.2 offers multiple, flexible ways of bringing data into the analytics environment.

Sybase Replication Server 15.5 supports immediate data access (from Sybase ASE), while Sybase ETL 4.9 can support both batch and continuous data load.

Smarter Answers Now = Better Business Decisions

No matter the volume or type of information, the speed at which it’s needed, the detail to which it is examined, or the number of decision-makers trying to access it, Sybase IQ delivers precise, actionable answers.  For enterprises turning to mission-critical, high-performance and cost-effective analytics solutions as a better way to innovate and win, Sybase IQ turns your information into better decisions.