Introducing the Industry's First Analytics Machine, Oracle Exalytics
- by Manan Goel
Analytics is all
about gaining insights from the data for better decision making. The business
press is abuzz with examples of leading organizations across the world using
data-driven insights for strategic, financial and operational excellence. A
recent study on “data-driven decision making” conducted by researchers at MIT
and Wharton provides empirical evidence that “firms that adopt data-driven
decision making have output and productivity that is 5-6% higher than the
competition”. The potential payoff for firms can range from higher shareholder
value to a market leadership position.
However, the vision
of delivering fast, interactive, insightful analytics has remained elusive for
most organizations. Most enterprise IT organizations continue to struggle to
deliver actionable analytics due to time-sensitive, sprawling requirements and
ever tightening budgets. The issue is further exasperated by the fact that most
enterprise analytics solutions require dealing with a number of hardware,
software, storage and networking vendors and precious resources are wasted
integrating the hardware and software components to deliver a complete
analytical solution.
Oracle Exalytics
In-Memory Machine is the world’s first engineered system specifically designed
to deliver high performance analysis, modeling and planning. Built using
industry-standard hardware, market-leading business intelligence software and
in-memory database technology, Oracle Exalytics is an optimized system that
delivers answers to all your business questions with unmatched speed,
intelligence, simplicity and manageability.
Oracle Exalytics’s
unmatched speed, visualizations and scalability delivers extreme performance
for existing analytical and enterprise performance management applications and
enables a new class of intelligent applications like Yield Management, Revenue
Management, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Management, Pricing Optimization,
Profitability Management, Rolling Forecast and Virtual Close etc.
Requiring no
application redesign, Oracle Exalytics can be deployed in existing IT
environments by itself or in conjunction with Oracle Exadata and/or Oracle
Exalogic to enable extreme performance and best in class user experience. Based
on proven hardware, software and in-memory technology, Oracle Exalytics lowers
the total cost of ownership, reduces operational risk and provides
unprecedented analytical capability for workgroup, departmental and enterprise
wide deployments.
Click here to learn more about Oracle Exalytics.