Data Mart Solutions

Analytic Appliances for Stand-Alone or Dependent Data Marts

Benefits in a Nutshell

• Faster reporting and query performance means more time for analysis
• Meet business users' need for flexible, scalable data mart solutions
• Rapid time-to-value and lowest TCO data mart solutions

Remember the good old days? Once a week you churned out the sales reports and once a month you produced the financial and management reporting pack. Now that's all changed. Competitive market pressures, ever increasing sources and amounts of information and increasing user technical capability have combined to create an environment in which business users expect access to their data 24x7.

So, how do you meet these expectations? Well, you've got no shortage of options. You can extend your operational databases to provide more reporting options. You can aggregate all of your operational data into an enterprise data warehouse and let a team of specialists crunch, slice and dice these huge data sets. Or you can load extracts from your operational databases into datamarts and let line of business managers report and analyze their own data. You already know that spreadsheets won't give you the depth of analysis that you need and you really don't need to hear an enterprise data warehousing analyst tell you that they can't get to your new query for another 3 weeks. Your preference is to go the data mart route but this means a high initial investment, right?

Not anymore. The affordable solution to the data mart dilemma is Kickfire. Our purpose built analytic appliance delivers top rated price performance at a fraction of the cost of other appliance or server based data mart solutions. We can do this because our unique SQL Chip packs the power of tens of CPUs onto a single chip delivering blazing performance at the lowest total cost of ownership of any datamart solution.

What's more, because Kickfire is based on the industry standard MySQL database, you can choose your business intelligence and reporting tool from the widest possible range of open source and commercial products and not be stuck with the limited choices offered by a proprietary data warehousing vendor.