The majority of companies have already implemented their business intelligence (BI) environments to physically layered warehouse architecture and according to traditional general-purpose relational databases.

Analytic databases using various technologies as columnar orientation, parallel processing or other techniques have now come into play. Some new information such as DBMSs offers improved performance for BI applications, now enabling impossible analyses and has been known to lower cost implementation.

In this White Paper you will learn:

• The World of the Data Warehouse
• What is an Analytic DBMS
• Positioning Analytic DBMSs in the Data Warehouse Architecture