T I M E L I N E

THE EVOLUTION OFTHE DATA

WAREHOUSE

SAP BW/4HANA merges the power of the SAP HANA in-

memory platform with the business process expertise

of SAP BW. SAP BW/4HANA establishes a new

paradigm for data warehousing. This new paradigm

addresses the challenges of big data and real-time

processing while opening up new and untapped

opportunities for the businesses that use it.

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HONEYWELL RELEASESMULTICS, THE FIRSTCOMMERCIAL RELATIONALDATABASE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM. THE MODERN ERAOF DATA MANAGEMENTBEGINS.

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Over the years , the data warehouse has been shaped by :

1) Re lent less technolog ica l deve lopment , and

2) The emergence of new bus iness processes and bus iness

models . Today bus inesses are go ing d ig i ta l . Organ izat ions

demand bet ter in tegrat ion of data , sca lab i l i ty to manage

rap id ly g rowing vo lumes of data , and ever - faster response

t imes. Can the data warehouse keep up?

TERADATA UNVEILSTHE FIRST COMMERCIALMPP DATA WAREHOUSEENVIRONMENT. ANALYSISAND REPORTING BEGIN TOACCELERATE AS COREBUSINESS PRIORITIES.

PRISM SYSTEMSINTRODUCES THE FIRSTPACKAGED ETL (EXTRACT,TRANSFORM, LOAD) TOOL

SAP BUSINESS WAREHOUSEACCELERATOR BRINGS IN-MEMORY PROCESSING TODATA WAREHOUSING

2005

SAP HANA IS THE FIRSTFULL IN-MEMORYDATABASE PLATFORM FORBOTH OPERATIONS ANDANALYSIS. THE STAGE ISSET FOR THE FUTURE OFDATA WAREHOUSING

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E V O L V I N G V A L U E P R O P O S I T I O N S

INTEGRATED DATA FOR ANALYSIS

CLEAN / CONSISTENT VIEWOF DATA RESOURCES

HISTORICAL DATA

HIGH-PERFORMANCEANALITCAL ENVIRONMENT

RELIABLE, ADAPTABLEANALITCAL ENVIRONMENT

TECHNICAL VALUE

GAININGCOMPETITIVEADVANTAGE

REDUCINGOPERATIONAL

AND FINANCIALRISKBUSINESS

VALUE

OPTIMIZINGCORE BUSINESS

EFFICIENCIES

INCREASINGREVENUE

ANALYZINGAND

PREDICTINGTRENDS ANDBEHAVIORS

MANAGING CUSTOMER

EXPECTATIONSPROACTIVELY

MANAGINGBRAND

PRESENCE,CHANNELS, AND

REPUTATION

Data warehousing technology has evolved to provide

increasingly complex solution sets while addressing a

common set of core requirements.

As businesses have grown more data-centric, the data

warehouse addresses and expanding set of business

value propositions.

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E V O L V I N G A R C H I T E C T U R E S

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A CONVENTIONAL EDWENVIRONMENT CAN MEETMANY, BUT NOT ALL, OF THEANALYTICAL REQUIREMENTSTHAT BUSINESS FACE TODAY

A DATA LAKE CAN BRING MUCH-NEEDED CONTEXTUAL DATA TOYOUR DATA WAREHOUSE, BUT SUCH A HYBRID ENVIRONMENTIS NOT A FULLY INTEGRATEDSOLUTION

THE NEXT-GENERATION DATAWAREHOUSE PROVIDES A FULLYINTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT FORREAL-TIME ANALYSIS FOR THEENTERPRISE

StreamingData

StreamingData

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