Data Warehouse Systems: URLs list
Originally from http://www.dbmsmag.com/pcware.html
Data Mart Solution
Data Mining Suite
DataGuide
DataMart Manager
DSS Administrator
DSS Architect
Intelligent Warehouse
PowerMart Suite and PowerCapture
Prism Schedule Manager
Prism Warehouse Directory
Prism Warehouse Executive
Prism/Sagent Scaleable Data Mart
Red Brick Warehouse for Workgroups
Red Brick Warehouse VPT 4.0
Red Brick Warehouse xPP
SmartMart
Tapestry
Universal Directory
WorldView
Data Mart Solution
Sagent Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, CA; 800-897-5160, 415-496-3100
www.sagenttech.com
Sagent's Data Mart Solution is a set of integrated tools for populating Windows NT-based data marts and presenting information to users. It lets developers and users leverage a single system for all data mart tasks, from populating the data mart from various sources and creating metadata to providing end users with tools to access, distribute, and collaborate on the data.
Data Mining Suite
Information Discovery Inc.
Hermosa, CA; 310-937-3600
www.datamining.com
The Data Mining Suite is a comprehensive and integrated set of data mining products that provide solutions for knowledge discovery, predictive modeling, and Internet/Intranet-based applications within a unified framework. The Data Mining Suite is integrated with OLAP Server. The Data Mining Suite consists of the following products: IDIS: The Information Discovery System for knowledge discovery from large databases; IDIS: PM Predictive Modeler for prediction and forecasting; and the Map Discovery System for the discovery of geographic patterns in databases.
DataGuide
IBM Corp.
White Plains, NY; 800-426-4968, 520-574-4600
www.ibm.com
A tool for creating and searching an online catalog of data and information that can be shared within a workgroup, across a company, or within a data warehouse. DataGuide can catalog many types of information (such as documents, spreadsheets, and charts), arrange it into groups, and provide supporting information such as glossaries and contact lists. Users can access information in the catalog from an OS/2 or Windows client. The catalog can reside on DB2 for OS/2, Windows NT, AIX, OS/400, MVS, or DB2 Parallel Edition for AIX
DataMart Manager
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Palo Alto, CA; 800-472-7563, x394, 800-637-7740
www.hp.com/go/datawarehouse
HP DataMart Manager is data-warehouse management middleware that lets administrators optimize performance and increase ease-of-use by dynamically selecting summary tables to precalculate answers for the most commonly requested or complex queries. DataMart Manager also advises administrators on which summary tables to create and delete. Runs on HP-UX 9 and 10. The underlying data warehouses may run on separate HP or non-HP server platforms. Intelligent Warehouse also supports most popular data access, reporting and OLAP tools running on Windows, NT, Macintosh, OS/2, and Unix, as well as those running through Web browsers.
DSS Administrator
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 800-927-1868, 703-848-8600
www.strategy.com
DSS Administrator is a set of tools that provides an environment for developing, deploying, and maintaining very large data warehouse and Web-based DSS applications. Project migration utilities help users implement a structured process for developing in one environment and incrementally deploying components of a system. DSS Administrator consists of two applications: Warehouse Monitor and Object Manager. Runs on all Windows platforms.
DSS Architect
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 800-927-1868, 703-848-8600
www.strategy.com
DSS Architect lets database administrators automatically generate or alter metadata, creating dimensions, atributes, hierarchies, facts, metrics, and connections to a data warehouse. Updates to the metadata are performed with minimum impact to existing DSS objects, eliminating the need to rebuild applications after each change in the data warehouse.
Intelligent Warehouse
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Palo Alto, CA; 800-472-7563, x394, 800-637-7740
www.hp.com/go/datawarehouse
HP's Intelligent Warehouse is data-warehouse management middleware that lets administrators create a virtual, single warehouse from multiple, independent warehouses or databases. It also provides query management capabilities to improve performance and increase ease-of-use for end-users. Runs on HP-UX 9 and 10. The underlying data warehouses may run on separate HP or non-HP server platforms. Intelligent Warehouse also supports most popular data access, reporting and OLAP tools running on Windows, NT, Macintosh, OS/2, and Unix, as well as those running through Web browsers.
PowerMart Suite and PowerCapture
Informatica Corp.
Menlo Park, CA USA; 800-653-3871
www.informatica.com
The PowerMart suite is a set of client/server software tools for building, deploying, and managing enterprise-scalable data marts. PowerMart propagates data from operational transaction databases to data marts using a real-time extract/transform/load engine.
Prism Schedule Manager
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA; 800-995-2928, 408-752-1888
www.prismsolutions.com
Prism Schedule Manager is an optional module for Prism Warehouse Executive that automates production planning, scheduling, and file transport. It provides facilities for defining schedules, monitoring jobs, and capturing operations meta data within the same workspace used to design and construct a data warehouse.
Prism Warehouse Directory
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA; 800-995-2928, 408-752-1888
www.prismsolutions.com
Prism Warehouse Directory provides an open platform to integrate and manage both business and technical metadata about warehouse versions across the enterprise. Developers use this information to manage warehouse construction, while users rely on the meta data to help them intelligently navigate and access business information.
Prism Warehouse Executive
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA; 800-995-2928, 408-752-1888
www.prismsolutions.com
Prism Warehouse Executive automates data warehouse construction. It has an intuitive, graphical user interface and workflow model for complete support of the warehouse implementation cycle. It allows users to graphically model the flow of data from multiple data sources into a target data warehouse, including all required data mappings and transformations.
Prism/Sagent Scaleable Data Mart
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA; 800-995-2928, 408-752-1888
www.prismsolutions.com
The Prism/Sagent Scaleable Data Mart solution populates and integrates workgroup data marts. It provides collaboration tools for sharing information, automated subscription services for data delivery, and query and analysis capa-bilities for information access and use.
Red Brick Warehouse for Workgroups
Red Brick Systems Inc.
Los Gatos, CA; 800-621-2808, 408-399-3200
www.redbrick.com
A low-end product for standalone or small, LAN-based data warehouses up to 5GB and up to 30 users for analytic processing applications and ad hoc querying. Designed to satisfy the needs of enterprises that want to deploy "datamarts," or subsets of data warehouses, to be used by internal departments for extensive analysis. Also designed to meet the increasing need for enterprises to share certain parts of a data warehouse with external organizations such as suppliers, distributors, or regulatory entities. Administration is kept to a minimum by offering only a single segment implementation and by limiting the number of databases that can exist on that server to a maximum of two data warehouses. Parallel operations such as parallel loading and parallel query processing are offered as options. Fully compatible with previous versions of Red Brick Warehouse. Pricing starts at $12,000.
Red Brick Warehouse VPT 4.0
Red Brick Systems Inc.
Los Gatos, CA; 800-763-3766, 408-399-3200
www.redbrick.com
Red Brick Warehouse VPT is an RDBMS featuring integrated bit-mapped indexing technology, called
TARGETindex. This technology provides functionality critical to deploying customer-centric data warehouse applications. TARGETindex enables data warehouse applications to rapidly segment large and wide customer tables based on targeted customer traits, such as gender, occupation, education level, number of children, and so on. TARGETindex is fully integrated with Red Brick Warehouse and STARindex technology. Once a TARGETindex has been used to select or target a specific
customer segment, the STARindex can be used for analysis against this highly-selective customer set.
Red Brick Warehouse xPP
Red Brick Systems Inc.
Los Gatos, CA; 800-621-2808, 408-399-3200
www.redbrick.com
Red Brick Warehouse xPP is a high-end Unix massively parallel processor (MPP) product for cross-functional data warehouses greater than one terabyte serving thousands of users. ("xPP" refers to extended parallel processing.) Designed to take advantage of multiple nodes in MPP architectures. Ensures that query performance does not suffer as the number of users scales significantly. Available for the IBM RS/6000 SP and Unisys OPUS platforms. Compatible with Red Brick Warehouse VPT 3.0 or later.
SmartMart
Information Builders Inc.
New York, NY; 800-969-4636, 212-736-4433
www.ibi.com
SmartMart is a data mart product that provides Web access. It includes tools for database creation, data extraction, and transformation, an MDBMS, and data access, analysis, and warehouse management tools. It is available on Windows NT, HP/UX, AIX, and Solaris platforms. Pricing ranges from $38,400 to $137,300.
Tapestry
D2K Inc.
San Jose, CA; 888-770-4636, 408-451-2015
www.d2k.com
Tapestry is software for creating knowledge distribution applications. It helps corporations build a comprehensive, scaleable, information framework to enable knowledge collaboration within and between work groups. Tapestry Server performs transportation, transformation, scheduling, documentation, and monitoring. Tapestry Catalog is a meta data repository tracks the activities and processes of each component. Works with Oracle, Sybase, Informix, or Microsoft SQL Server. Unix server: $75,000; NT server, $50,000.
Universal Directory
Logic Works Inc.
Princeton, NJ; 800-783-7946, 609-514-1177
www.logicworks.com
Universal Directory is an information directory that lets you inventory, publish, and manage the metadata about your data warehouse. It provides context and content search facilities that let business users, developers, and other users explore and navigate through the vast amounts of resources available in the data warehouse.
WorldView
Redpoint Software Inc.
Westborough, MA; 800-414-7475, 508-870-0070
www.rpsi.com
WorldView uses a distributed in-memory cache design to create dynamic, logical data warehouses from disparate, globally dispersed systems. WorldView provides a consolidated, event-driven view of data selected by the user application. WorldView is built to be fault-tolerant, to ensure that applications using WorldView continue to run in the event of system failures. Runs on Windows NT and Unix. Works with Sybase, Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, or any ODBC-compliant DBMS. Transport is TCP/IP.