Sybase IQ: November 2010 Archives - BeyeBLOGS.com - The Business Intelligence Blog Community

« October 2010 | Main | January 2011 »

November 18, 2010

Good Data – The Oil of Business

Sybase has just released the third and final part of an intriguing study that attempts to quantitatively measure the impact of a company’s investment in business intelligence on its business performance. The study was commissioned by Sybase and conducted by researchers from the University of Texas in conjunction with the Indian School of Business. In a previous blog post, I discussed the insights derived from part two –impacts of data effectiveness on innovation and revenue growth. Here is a link to that blog post:

http://blogs.sybase.com/sybaseiq/2010/09/improved-data-%e2%80%93-shown-to-promote-innovation/

The study has been completed, and the third part focuses on the relationship between better data, and a company’s operational efficiency. Operational efficiency is characterized by the following:

Asset utilization: the ability of a firm to efficiently utilize inventories, accounts receivables and hard assets for the production of goods and services
Planning and forecasting accuracy: the ability of a firm to accurately predict demand for its products and services
On-time delivery: the ability of a firm to deliver products or services to its customers in a timely manner

The following diagram illustrates the relationship of the variables examined in the study – data and control processes driving operational efficiency:

op_eff

The key findings of the study are these:

An increase of 10% in the mobility of the sales team (better availability of data) leads to a 7.28% increase in asset utilization
An increase of 10% in business intelligence (better intelligence from data) leads to an 18.5% increase in planning and forecasting accuracy
An increase of 10% in data quality (better accuracy of data) leads to a 2.8% increase in the timeliness of product delivery

It is not surprising to see that there are relationships between effective data and the ability of a company to execute its business. What is unique about this study is the attempt to measure the magnitude of the impact. The results demonstrate the substantial benefits from small improvements in data quality and usability. You can find the complete published report here:

http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1082805

Courtney Claussen

Posted by Sybase IQ at 8:37 PM

November 9, 2010

Redifining MPP

As part of the overall SAP delegation to the event, we’re making quite a splash this week at the TDWI World Conference in Orlando. It’s a major announcement– one that we’ve been looking forward to making for some time:

Sybase Redefines Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) With Increased Analytic Performance, Scalability and Architectural Flexibility

Sybase IQ 15.3 Customers Benefit From Extreme Query Performance With PlexQ Distributed Query Platform

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sybase, Inc., an SAP(R) an industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today announced the release of Sybase IQ 15.3 to beta customers. Sybase IQ 15.3 introduces the PlexQ(TM) Distributed Query Platform, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture that accelerates highly complex queries by distributing work to many computers in a grid configuration. Unlike shared-nothing MPP architectures, PlexQ utilizes a shared-everything approach that dynamically manages and balances query workloads across all the compute nodes in a Sybase IQ MPP configuration. The PlexQ’s automatic workload re-balancer aggressively works to avoid contention among users for system resources, thereby providing predictable high performance for a spectrum of concurrent workloads.

What we’re talking about here is MPP done right. Leveraging the Sybase IQ column-based arhcitecture, the PlexQ Distributed Query platform tops standard shared-nothing MPP architectures by providing better concurrency, enabling higher-performing self-service ad-hoc queries, and supporting independent scale-out of compute and storage resources. Extreme performance and architectural flexibility have always been key parts of the Sybase IQ story. As you’ll see in the weeks and months to come, that story is about to become a lot more interesting.

Meanwhile, if you happen to be attending TDWI this week, be sure and stop by the SAP Booth (#300) and look for Sybase Analytics co-blogger Kevin Leong. Kevin is on hand to tell you all about how Sybase IQ is redefining MPP.

Posted by Sybase IQ at 5:36 PM

Redefining MPP