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The$Need$for$Unconstrained$Analytics$
Today's global and hyper-connected world has led to a volatile business
environment full of unexpected risks and opportunities. The window of
opportunity is much shorter but the rewards can be orders of magnitude more
lucrative for companies that can leverage all of the data and analytic power
available. These companies have moved beyond traditional "Business
Intelligence" that relies on reports, dashboards and KPIs that provide a look
back at what happened. The ability to stay ahead of market conditions - and
rapidly iterate through numerous what-if scenarios - gives them a competitive
edge through near real-time Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics.
Staying ahead of market conditions and competitors requires the ability to
answer a wide range of questions, using all of the available data. The results
may be unexpected and trigger further analysis, along many different analytic
vectors. The ability to quickly iterate through these analyses supports a
process of iterative and interactive data discovery as analysts start to have
deep meaningful "conversations" with their data. These conversations enable
analysts to uncover insights about the current state of the business and more
importantly, to guide strategic decisions that are most likely to benefit
businesses in the weeks, months and years to come.
A discovery-based approach requires a platform that supports open, iterative,
interactive and complex analytics on vast and diverse datasets. Results have
to be available in seconds and minutes, rather than hours or even days. The
combination of the ParAccel Analytic Platform & Dell's portfolio of server,
storage, & networking solutions provides such a high-performance Big Data
discovery platform. Deployed as part of an optimized data center architecture,
it delivers a powerful and flexible analytic infrastructure that maximizes
business and IT agility, minimizes TCO, and delivers unprecedented ROI at
scale – all while fundamentally transforming the way customers do business.
The$ParAccel$&$Dell$Advantage$
By combining ParAccel’s powerful, flexible, analytics-focused software-based
engine with Dell's leading server & network infrastructure, companies will
accelerate their analytic projects and enjoy a new level of flexibility in arming
their users with the tools needed to transform their business.
The ParAccel Analytic Platform is powered by a columnar-based, massively
parallel processing (MPP) analytic database at its core. It performs operations
such as aggregation and joins against large amounts of disparate data at
record-breaking speeds. In addition to ANSI-standard SQL language support
and industry-standard ODBC/JDBC connectivity, the ParAccel Analytic
Platform also supports over 500 mathematical, statistical and data-mining
functions that run natively in-database. ParAccel provides connectivity to all
industry standard Business Intelligence and Data Integration tools, as well as
an On Demand Integration (ODI) architecture that creates an open
environment where analysts can leverage external sources of data and
analytics from sources such as Hadoop or Teradata.
ParAccel Analytic Database
Key Capabilities:
! Record-breaking query performance
on Big Data
! Tackles the most complex SQL better
than any other next-gen vendor
! Over 500 out-of-the box advanced
analytic algorithms
o Mathematics
o Statistics
o Probabilities
o Data Mining
o Financial
! On-Demand Integration (ODI) to
external data warehouses and
unstructured data stores
! Powerful, massively-parallel
Extensibility Framework empowers
developers to discover new ways to
exploit Big Data
! Broad BI & ETL tool compatibility
through support of industry standards
o ANSI SQL, ODBC, JDBC
o Cognos
o Birst
o Business Objects
o Informatica
o Information Builders
o Tableau
o MicroStrategy
! Enterprise-class high-performance
parallel backup & SAN integration for
DR
! No single-point-of-failure cluster
architecture
! Enterprise-class data encryption
(AES-256)