Sybase Analytics

Hello, everyone: Sybase was an exhibitor at The Data Warehousing Institute’s conference in San Diego last week, and if you attended, you could not have missed our beautiful, all black and white, classic booth in the exhibitors’ hall.  We delivered a “micro-university” style curriculum on business intelligence called “The Performance Series” – a series of [...]

Sybase is no stranger to The Data Warehousing Institute. Over the past few years, we have been partner members, we have sponsored research, and we have exhibited frequently at the quarterly conferences. Plus, as some key industry influencers will attest — and not to brag or anything — but we have hosted some really nice [...]

Our friend Jim Ericson at Information Management has some thoughts on a recent DM Radio segment with James Kobelius of Forrester research and Neil McGovern from Sybase. The topic of the program was real-time data warehousing. Jim notes that one of the key buzzwords to emerge in the discussion was Big Data, and that some [...]

On his blog at Information Management, Evan Levy has some thoughts on how appropriate a measure TCO (total cost of ownership) is for analytics environments: The problem with TCO arises when it’s used as a metric for justifying cross-functional or analytical systems. With these systems, the value isn’t delivering commodity processing but rather supporting decision [...]