SAP Solution Brief SAP IQ

Efficient and Effective Delivery of Key Information for Today’s Decision Makers

Quick Facts

Summary Key Features Business Benefits The SAP® Sybase® IQ server delivers ana- •• Column data store – Accelerate que- •• Faster information delivery while lytics speed and power while dramatically ries while slashing time spent tuning maintaining real-time data accuracy improving affordability and manageability. performance •• Improved IT efficiency with balanced Its column-oriented, grid-based architec- •• Massively parallel computing grid – utilization of available machine and ture, and patented data-compression and Support heavy and ad hoc usage from human resources indexing technology offer you the highest hundreds of concurrent users •• Efficient responseo t market changes levels of performance while helping you •• Management of very large databases through better-informed and timely make the most efficient use of available – Harness your Big Data through decision making resources. advanced partitioning techniques for •• Deeper collaboration by means of convenient delivery of analytics analytics models and code that sup- Business Challenges •• In-database analytics – Take advan- port sharing and ad hoc analysis •• Accelerating analytics and reporting tage of statistical and data mining across business functions functions to deliver crucial answers expertise in algorithms from SAP quickly to decision makers partners to analyze structured and For More Information •• Improving scalability to support large unstructured data Call your Softchoice sales numbers of users analyzing years of representative or SAP's Softchoice data partner manager; Paul Marshall, •• Reducing IT costs with technology that paul.marshall@.com, 416-494-5552. requires less hardware and storage capacity and lower maintenance •• Protecting investments through solu- tions that integrate with, and add value to, existing infrastructure How do you foster superior efficiency, flexibility, and economy database. It brings you a grid-based archi- while meeting diverse and pressing analytics needs? Traditional tecture, patented data compression, and database systems were meant for processing transactions, but an advanced query optimizer to foster high performance, flexibility, and economy SAP® Sybase® IQ server offers faster query performance while even in challenging reporting conditions slashing maintenance, hardware, and storage costs. Realize (see Figure 1). You can boost performance exponential improvement, even as thousands of employees over traditional database environments at and years of data enter your ecosystem. least tenfold. And this benefit accrues even as you add thousands of users and years of data to the ecosystem and begin to process complex queries and database- In a conventional relational database making? How do you keep 10 terabytes intensive predictive analyses. management system, data is stored and of raw data from expanding to 20 tera- With SAP Sybase IQ, you store and retrieved horizontally. This is the ideal bytes of summaries and aggregates? retrieve data by columns of attributes, structure for logging and processing Simply put, how can you build an analyt- making information highly accessible for transactions, but 21st-century business ics environment that clarifies business analysis. The data itself serves as the demands efficient data analysis as well. choices while reducing costly data bloat index, and you retrieve only the columns The first step toward a true analytical and labor-intensive maintenance? used in a specific query. You don’t need to database is to store data in columns. The SAP Sybase IQ server can help. This waste limited IT administrator resources That’s a significant leap, but it’s not analytics server is specifically designed to to maintain elaborate metadata or add enough. How can you support the ad hoc help you meet data warehousing and busi- costly hardware to keep performance queries essential to intelligent decision ness intelligence requirements from your at acceptable levels. The patented

Figure 1: Solution Architecture

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Data usage Data management Analysis and visualization

Event processing

SAP® solutions for EIM and SAP Sybase IQ SAP Crystal Server SAP Sybase® Replication Server®

Data modeling/database design tool

Value proposition

Recognized as a market leader in each An integrated best-of-breed stack functional area – EIM, DBMS, and BI – per analyst ratings and customer adoption

Acquire a one-vendor solution and support Develop applications on an optimized stack Fast ROI and solution deployment Deploy market-proven BI applications Sustain coordinated support and long-term commitment

Source: Sybase, an SAP company Figure 2: Shared Resources

Shared High-speed interconnect interconnect

Shared CPU, memory

Shared SAN fabric SAN fabric

Shared storage

Source: Sybase, an SAP company data-compression process gives your data With SAP Sybase IQ, you can also filtered and processed. And to move warehouse or analytics environment a implement options that facilitate information in real time into SAP Sybase lean, green footprint – up to 70% smaller management of very large databases, IQ, you can select a replication offering than the original input data. And you can unstructured data analytics, in-database that includes real-time loading and infor- easily scale loading and querying through analytics, or real-time data loading. To mation priming. a shared-everything grid architecture that work with Big Data, you can use range Leaders in all industries realize that an dynamically manages and balances work- partitioning and table space structures enterprise succeeds today only to the loads across all computing nodes and to raise the level of granularity in your extent it empowers decision makers reduces contention for system resources analytics environment. Full text-search everywhere to understand quickly and to negligible levels. SAP Sybase IQ helps functionality helps you analyze unstruc- act boldly. In an age of no excuses, SAP you build flexibility into your analytics tured data such as images, word pro- Sybase IQ is a smart approach for busi- architecture as well. You can start with one cessing files, presentations, and Web nesses that need to analyze and deliver server and add processors and memory and multimedia content. You can access to compete. as needed, with little or no loss of scalabil- libraries of pluggable analytical algo- ity (see Figure 2). And you can add hun- rithms from statistical and data mining dreds of terabytes of disk space without experts to ensure that your data never lowering query efficiency. leaves the database until results are

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