DBMS Buyer's Guide

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Data Warehouse Systems

Metadata managers, administration tools, and bundles of database servers and related tools specifically geared to data warehouse and data mart applications.

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Broadbase
Data Mart Solution
DataGuide
DataTracker
DSS Administrator
DSS Architect
PowerCenter
Prism Warehouse Directory
Prism Web Access
Red Brick DecisionScape
ShowCase Strategy
SmartMart
Universal Directory

Broadbase
Broadbase Information Systems
Menlo Park, CA; 650-614-8313
www.broadbase.com
Broadbase is a turnkey data mart. It can source, scrub, analyze, and mine data in one integrated product. Broadbase combines a relational database engine with analysis, transformation, and administration layers that transform raw data into strategic information.

Data Mart Solution
Sagent Technology Inc.
Palo Alto, CA;
www.sagenttech.com
The Sagent Data Mart Solution is an integrated environment for building and accessing data marts. It consists of data movement capabilities for building data marts and Web capabilities for accessing data marts.

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.

DataTracker
Silvon Software Inc.
Westmont, IL;
www.datatracker.com

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DataTracker is a multiplatform application data mart that provides OLAP facilities for manufacturing, distribution, and retail operations. It runs on AS/400, Unix, and Windows NT servers.

DSS Administrator
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8796
www.strategy.com
DSS Administrator is a comprehensive environment for developing, monitoring, and maintaining enterprise data warehouse applications. It offers advanced monitoring to help tune systems for high performance and availability, user and object management to maintain thousand-user systems, and project migration utilities to implement project life cycle development and incremental deployment.

DSS Architect
MicroStrategy Inc.
Vienna, VA; 703-848-8796
www.strategy.com
DSS Architect is a graphical design tool for specifying the metadata layer on top of a physical data warehouse. It can create metadata for complex data models against any relational database and provides reliable and automatic error-checking and system documentation capabilities.

PowerCenter
Informatica Corp.
Menlo Park, CA; 800-653-3871
www.informatica.com
PowerCenter is new enterprise software that lets data marts be networked together and centrally managed from a single location. Key features include global metadata sharing, heterogeneous joins, native mainframe file support, and distributed server management.

Prism Warehouse Directory
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.prismsolutions.com
Prism Warehouse Directory provides an open platform to integrate and manage business, technical, and operational metadata about warehouse versions across the enterprise. Developers use this information to manage warehouse construction, while users rely on the metadata to help them navigate and access business information.

Prism Web Access
Prism Solutions Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA;
www.prismsolutions.com
Prism Web Access lets users access and navigate the metadata stored in the Prism Warehouse Directory with industry-standard Web browsers.

Red Brick DecisionScape
Red Brick Systems Inc.
Los Gatos, CA; 800-621-2808, 408-399-3200
www.redbrick.com
Red Brick DecisionScape is an environment of integrated products, services, methodology, and partnerships for decision support that helps its customers get fast and accurate answers to business-critical questions. Red Brick's integrated products include: Red Brick Warehouse, Red Brick's flagship RDBMS built from the ground up for data warehousing; Red Brick Vista, a server-integrated solution for the management and computation of aggregates; Red Brick Data Mine, a server-integrated data mining solution; Red Brick Warehouse Administrator, a GUI administrative tool; SQL BackTrack for Red Brick Warehouse, a high performance backup and recovery solution; and Red Brick Formation, a rapid, easy-to-use development environment for data extraction and transformation.

ShowCase Strategy
ShowCase Corp.
Rochester, MN; 800-829-3555, 507-288-5922
www.showcasecorp.com
ShowCase Strategy is a set of warehousing products for the AS/400 that lets customers perform data transformation, extraction, distribution, and analysis with the centralized security and maintenance of a server-based architechture. It accesses relational and multidimensional databases. ShowCase Strategy consists of seven products: Server, Query, Report Writer, Distributor, Essbase 400, Analyzer, and Analyzer for the Web. These are available separately or as an integrated solution.

SmartMart
Information Builders Inc.
New York, NY; 800-969-4636, 212-736-4433
www.ibi.com
SmartMart is a turnkey solution that provides all the tools, technology, and services to build, use, and manage a data mart. Includes tools for data extraction, transformation and movement, multidimensional data storage, reporting and analysis, Web access, and data mart administration.

Universal Directory
Logic Works Inc.
Princeton, NJ;
www.logicworks.com
Logic Works Universal Directory is an information directory that lets you inventory, package, and publish the metadata and associated unstructured information about your data warehouse. It provides context and content search capabilities, letting both business and technical users browse, access, and manage the information assets.

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Updated Friday, June 26, 1998