The End of Traditional OLAP? New Approach Spells Death for Physical Cubes

Several new data-management approaches are challenging the long-standing process of delivering Business Intelligence solutions via OLAP cubes built atop Data Warehouses. While the warehouse will surely never go away, and cubes certainly expedite queries, the shortcomings in time, collaboration and synchronicity associated with the traditional model have become downright burdensome in many cases.

One new approach for avoiding such bottlenecks uses a combination of in-memory power and Massive Parallel Processing (MPP). When implemented properly, this solution solves many of the limitations tied to the old model, including latency, inaccuracy and scalability.

View this Briefing Room Webinar to learn from veteran Analyst Robin Bloor, who explains how and why the world of information management is changing, then offer insights on what you can do. Bloor was briefed by John Coppins of Kognitio, who showcased the company’s latest offering Pablo, which creates a virtual marshalling area for metadata and super-charged “cubes” -- thus circumventing many of the issues that companies encounter with cube maintenance and proliferation. Furthermore, Pablo embraces Excel as the front-end, thus catering to many non-technical business users.

Announcing Kognitio Pablo - putting an end to OLAP cube nightmares once and for all

If you are struggling to keep up with the demands of business users who are used to running and querying data from physical OLAP cubes, then you need worry no more. Kognitio is proud to be launching Pablo, an extension to its WX2 database platform. Intended for use by enterprises that have made a major commitment to OLAP-based services, Pablo dispenses with the logistical issues of designing and populating cube data sources. Instead, Pablo enables turbo-charged train-of-thought analytics on extreme data through the use of in-memory and zero population virtual cube builds.

And now, using mass market tools such as Microsoft Excel or other front-end BI applications, frontline users can access larger data volumes more quickly with 100% drill-down capabilities. Gone are the headaches of cube proliferation, multiple versions of the truth as well as data strewn throughout your business.

And because there are no more physical cubes to create, administer, refresh or repopulate, your cube headaches are gone forever. To find out more about Kognitio Pablo, go to www.kognitio.com/pablo

Kognitio positioned as Visionary player in Magic Quadrant report

We are extremely delighted that Kognitio has been positioned in the visionaries quadrant in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report on data warehouse database management systems (DBMS), published January 28th, 2011.

As our customers have come to expect, Kognitio is committed to offering a high quality analytic database platform that is resilient, robust and feature-rich. Our mature WX2 solution is just that, and with quality support on hand to ensure that our customers are successful in their efforts to get competitive advantage from their data, we are thrilled that the leading analyst firm has recognized our efforts as well as vision in the data warehousing market place. Indeed, Kognitio was the first to introduce many of the innovations that have driven the business intelligence and data analytics markets forward, including in‐memory database capabilities, Data Warehousing as a Service (DaaS) and the industry’s first data warehousing appliance.

To read more about Kognitio's position in the report, please go to our website and see our news release. To access the full report, please go to www.gartner.com