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| Skytide announces support for IBM DB2 'Viper' Skytide, a developer of next generation business intelligence platform technology, today announced a partnership with IBM to enable analytical applications based on XML content residing in IBM's next version of DB2 codenamed "Viper." The Internet has changed the face of business, offering an immediate channel for conducting transactions and communicating with customers, distribution channels, and trading partners . In this environment, the one constant is change. Critical information about customer and partner interactions, orders, trades, contracts, and quotes flows in and out of dynamic, externally facing systems such as online service, call center, trading partner management, and content management applications. This data is organized and exchanged in a wide variety of complex and frequently changing XML-based formats. In this environment, analysis using traditional tools becomes difficult, time-consuming, and costly. Skytide offers the industry's first solution specifically designed to address the business intelligence challenges inherent to dealing with new complex data sources such as XML and the environment of change that it fosters. The Skytide Analytical Platform enables organizations to leverage all their data, regardless of how complex and fluid, in order to rapidly shape business analytics to meet user demands. Unlike the traditional BI solutions, Skytide allows business analysts and users to develop analysis and reports across multiple, diverse data sources and complex data formats in a fraction of the typical time and with very little IT involvement. It dramatically reduces the time-to-analysis, which is critical for the success of the business. The primary driver behind these capabilities is Skytide's patented XML analysis technology, which enables users to create analytical models in a simple one-step process directly from data sources. Support for native XML in the next version of DB2 database will allow businesses to capture and manage valuable business information in its original format, creating a faster and more stable foundation for decision support and business intelligence applications on this data. The Skytide and DB2 combination will unite best of breed XML analytics with a powerful, native XML and relational storage system to enable new analytical applications designed to identify revenue opportunities to pursue and operational risks to avoid. Skytide will use the Native XML repository in DB2 as one of the standard supported data sources and will offer business intelligence modeling and querying to extend the XQuery and SQL based standard query capabilities of DB2 Viper. The lack of tedious and error-prone XML shredding into relational tables leaves organizations free to focus on harvesting their new database content rather than manually structuring it and then worrying about its completeness and usefulness for analysis. "The ability to analyze a combination of both XML and relational data is critical to rapidly extract insight from your business data, " said Bernie Spang, director of IBM database marketing. "Skytide and DB2 Viper provide our clients with the unique data analysis capabilities required to meet the current explosion of XML-based business information." "We are delighted to be partnering with IBM to integrate our platform with DB2 Viper, " said Joseph Rozenfeld, Vice President of Products for Skytide. "The combination of industrial strength database management for native XML by DB2 Viper and Skytide's ability to provide direct multidimensional analysis of XML data, removes two key barriers to widespread adoption of XML and the transformation of this data into actionable business information." write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Networking News :: home page |