VectorWise: The Intelligence Gap and Calculation at the Speed of Thought

Calculations in Excel can't take more than a few seconds or analyze more than 60,000 rows, or the application will freeze. Well, what if like many businesses you have hundreds of millions of transactions to analyze? You are forced to summarize.

But once you summarize, you lose critical detail that may have allowed you to make better decisions and you can't ask other interesting questions of your that data in the future. Losing that detail results in an Intelligence Gap - it is a loss of the critical information needed to make the best decisions possible.

Now imagine if you could take your hundreds of millions of transactions, put them on your laptop and analyze it in real time. Then you could make the best decisions possible for your business when you need to most. This is all done without the need to configure complex servers and software or needing to wait in line to start a complex IT project. With Ingres VectorWise, analysts can process unthinkable amounts of data quickly and ask questions as they come to mind.

Ingres VectorWise also gives you the power to decrease your TCO. You don't need a quarter of a million dollars to spend on an expensive rack, or multiple people to put it together for you. With just a simple industry standard server, you can do the analysis on full transaction data. No more expensive servers and expensive software, which is often accepted as the norm today.