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BI Tools Can't Effectively Handle Extreme Data Volumes

Today's business relies on high-volume transaction systems that run over a network. Web services, content delivery, communications, online transactions, and more, are some of the diverse applications that generate millions of transaction records in the form of log files, click-stream data files, and HTTP traffic data files every day.

Valuable business information is hidden within these extreme volumes of data — information that could potentially provide valuable insight into business processes and customer offerings. But, due to the way traditional BI tools handle data — requiring the time-consuming and often information-degrading process of "stuffing" all data into a relational database or data warehouse before analysis can occur — this insight is either stored, but not analyzed, or simply discarded.

BI tools have three critical shortcomings that make it impossible to efficiently analyze today's high volumes of diverse data:

Traditional BI
Can't Scale

  • High volumes of network data overwhelm BI systems.
  • Cube builds or queries have poor performance.
  • High latency – no timely access to results.
Traditional BI is
Not Flexible
  • Changes in data format requires time-consuming changes to ETL, warehouse schema and cube definitions.
  • New queries or analytical requirements require re-architecting data warehouse structure, very laborious and time consuming.
  • Warehouse schema changes can require heavyweight data migration.
Traditional BI Is
Not Cost Effective
  • A data warehouse requires large centralized infrastructure.
  • Licensing models prohibit “divide and conquer” strategy.
  • Specialized expertise needed for each of ETL, warehouse, cube modeling.

 

Skytide was built for Today's High Volumes of Diverse Data

The Skytide Analytical Platform™ was designed to be scaleable, flexible and cost-effective. Designed from the ground up, it was built to accommodate:

Skytide is
Fully Scaleable

  • Incorporates extremely high volumes of data -- terabytes/day.
  • Leverages in-memory processing for fast query processing.
  • Incremental updates continuously refresh analytical cubes with new data, so updated results are always available to end-users through a host of presentation formats:  Excel, CrystalReports, JasperSoft, and web portals.
Skytide is
Very Flexible
  • Seamlessly incorporates multiple data formats:  HTTP, HTML, net flow log files, syslogs, customer data, "click-stream" data, text, and more -- without requiring data transformation.
  • Quickly adapts to changes in data formats or sources without time-consuming changes to ETL, warehouse schema and cube definitions.
  • Allows new queries or analytical requirements to be made quickly, using "drab & drop" design functionality.
Skytide is
Highly Cost- Effective
  • Reduces hardware and software license costs.
  • Easy-to-use designer interface to build and manage analytical modeling component eliminates the need for specialized expertise for each of ETL, warehouse, cube modeling.

 

Using Skytide, companies can use analytics to leverage the value of all transaction data — as it’s being generated — for a fraction of the cost of traditional BI tools.
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For more information about how Skytide can solve your high volume data analytics challenges please contact Skytide at:  info@skytide.com or call 1.650.292.1900.

 

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