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Pi and Netezza Webinar: The Power of Item Profitability Analytics
April 2009 Pi Solutions and Netezza jointly sponsored a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics could enable Retail and CPG companies to optimize revenues for the business by understanding and assessing their profits at the most granular level.
Ernie Levenson, VP of Operations at VTech, was the key speaker at this event. Ernie discussed how VTech used profitability analytics to improve their business. Ernie shared his insights on how to successfully implement and leverage these solutions. Pi Solutions provided a brief overview of their Pi Profit Analytics™ application, built to run on the Netezza platform. And, Netezza talked about its market-leading family of data warehouse appliances.
This webinar focused on how item-level profitability enables a company to:
- Make profitable decisions on product pricing, substitution and mix
- Manage customer relationships and make fact based decisions on pricing and discounting, order size, delivery arrangements and supply chain efficiencies
- Replace lowest price suppliers with lowest TCO suppliers
- Highlight new opportunities in the business and provide financial justifications for decisions
- Improve product development by providing product and merchandising managers information to optimize costs and maximize functionality
“The power of Item Profitability Analytics webinar” showcases how VTech was able to turn an unprofitable division to profitable one using profit analysis. It highlights how to leverage Pi Profit Analytics software and Netezza appliance to build the next generation profitability solution quickly and easily. The information in the webinar can be used by any company in increasing their own bottom line profitability through true profitability analysis. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in improving their company’s profitability,” said Keshav Kuthiala, Vice President of Marketing Pi Solutions.
This event is recorded and is available on demand: The Power of Item Profitability Analytics
Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems
Apr 2009 Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
“We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined,” said Oracle President Safra Catz.
“The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.”
There are substantial long-term strategic customer advantages to Oracle owning two key Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.
The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database, Oracle’s largest business, and has been for a long time. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris. Oracle is as committed as ever to Linux and other open platforms and will continue to support and enhance our strong industry partnerships.
Teradata and SAP Expand Partnership
Apr. 2009 Teradata Corporation, a company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics, and SAP AG, a provider of business software, recently announced at Teradata Universe a new agreement to provide SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) on the Teradata database. Customers have asked for accelerated, unified access to detailed enterprise data for improved business visibility. To address this need, the partnership will deliver a seamlessly integrated and scalable solution that lowers total cost of ownership and consolidates data on one database platform.
Companies around the globe use both Teradata and SAP products. Today, these customers have various databases for their data warehouses, and use different business intelligence (BI) tools to analyze that data. Most have at least one SAP NetWeaver BW data warehouse. As a result of the new agreement, customers will benefit from an integrated end-to-end offering, including everything from data warehouse infrastructure and management to BI tools. The consolidation of all data on one database platform will support joint SAP-Teradata customers’ efforts to standardize and rationalize their IT investments while lowering their total cost of ownership.
“For companies like ours that leverage massive amounts of information with Teradata and SAP, the promise of tighter integration and closer collaboration is significant,” said Joe Zakutney, Vice President, Global Applications, The Hershey Company. “Most companies realize that centralized data warehousing is the best approach for BI and analytics, and SAP software running on Teradata is exactly the kind of combination we foresee as a technology advantage in the years ahead.”
Will Business Intelligence Software Move to Appliances?
SAP-Teradata alliance, IBM’s plans and Oracle-Sun deal all point to BI bundles on top of data warehouse appliances.
An alliance announced this week between SAP and Teradata goes beyond integration of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and the Teradata database. That first part is good news for joint customers who are getting by with customized integrations of the two data warehouse environments. But the alliance also points to what is likely to be a growing trend in data warehousing and business intelligence: the bundling of BI software onto data warehouse appliances.
Looking beyond support for the Teradata database, which will happen with the next release of SAP BW, the two vendors are “exploring many other opportunities to more closely integrate,” says Miles Stephenson, Teradata’s vice president of alliances. “We wouldn’t preclude some sort of a bundle… and we’ve actually looked at several of the packages that SAP BusinessObjects has put together as industry solutions.”
From SAP’s perspective, working with Teradata makes good sense. Nearly half of SAP’s top 100 customers run Teradata. What’s more, BusinessObjects was the number-one BI tool running on top of Teradata even before the BI vendor’s acquisition by SAP. As for the possibility of a joint appliance with bundled BI software, “Teradata obviously has a lot of strength in the appliance space, and it was one of the very first appliance vendors,” comments Tim Lang, vice president of product management at SAP BusinessObjects. “SAP isn’t new to appliances either, as we’ve had our Business Warehouse Accelerator technology for a number of years.”
In fact, SAP and Teradata may be responding in part to IBM. IBM has let it be known, and in an interview with Intelligent Enterprise in early March it acknowledged, that it will make its BI and information integration software available as modules. These modules will run –preconfigured and preinstalled — on top of the InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse appliances.
“Customers will be able to say, ‘I want this E-Class Balanced Warehouse on a pSeries server, and I also want the IBM Cognos module, the InfoSphere Information Server module and maybe the Optim data retention module as well,” says Bill O’Connell, IBM’s data warehousing CTO. “The appliance would be shipped to the customer data-load ready, with everything installed and configured, further expediting time to value for our customers.”
So it’s apparent that data warehouse appliances are likely to give way to complete data warehouse and BI appliances. But with its pending deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, Oracle is talking about taking one-stop shopping for hardware and software to even greater extremes, adding in applications as well as information infrastructure.
The trend goes beyond data warehousing and BI. It’s about prefab data centers, ready to plug in and go with minimal systems integration and the promise of faster, lower cost deployment.
