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	February 6, 2009 The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2009 Teradata, Oracle, And IBM Lead, With Microsoft Strengthening by James G. Kobielus with Rob Karel, Norman Nicolson	Average: 9  (5 ratings)

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Executive Summary

In Forrester's 54-criteria evaluation of enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform vendors, we found that Teradata, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft lead the pack because each offers mature, high-performance, flexible, secure, and robust solutions. Teradata is tops in scalability, with its petabyte-scale massively parallel platform, though Oracle has shown great progress recently in EDW appliance scale-out through an intelligent storage layer. IBM has the broadest range of EDW appliance packaging options, while Microsoft has one of the most impressive midmarket-focused EDW solution portfolios. Netezza, Sybase, and SAP are Strong Performers in the EDW platforms market, with a primary focus on niche markets. Among them, Netezza demonstrates the most rapid evolution into a robust EDW platform, though the vendor's data warehousing (DW) appliance primarily addresses tactical deployment for front-end online analytical processing (OLAP) acceleration. Sybase recently launched a family of cost-effective EDW appliances, with its core columnar database suited primarily for very large data marts. SAP's NetWeaver BI platform offers a solid EDW hub capability for existing SAP users, but it aims to evolve into a more flexible platform for real-time business intelligence (BI).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EDW Is Core Back-End Infrastructure For Business Intelligence
• EDW Platforms Evaluation Overview
• Leading EDW Platforms Are Growing More Scalable And Affordable
• Vendor Profiles
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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