Re: Does Oracle have anything like SAP Business Intelligence Accelerator?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:53:05 -0800
Message-ID: <1226335972.103867@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


zigzagdna_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> On Nov 8, 8:14 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> Serge Rielau wrote:
>>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>>> I think you are confusing apples and trees. Almost all SAP installs
>>>> are done using the Oracle database. So when one looks at SAP
>>>> technology one is asking about an SAP technology built with an
>>>> Oracle database as its foundation (just as all apples grow on trees).
>>> Arrogance comes before the fall.
>>> Nestle runs arguable the biggest R/3 and SAP BW systems and it ain't
>>> growing on an Oracle tree:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/5r42gd
>> Clearly easy to see why DB2 has been so marginalized in the marketplace
>> as to no longer be on most people's radar screens.
>>
>> You confused the phrase "Almost all" with "All" and thus cited a single
>> exception to the rule.
>>
>> Give Mark Townsend a call and perhaps he can get you into the Redwood
>> Shores ESL program.
>>
>>> I doubt that almost all SAP BW installations run on Oracle.
>> No you don't. You know damned well they do. Because you know as well
>> as I do the number of Oracle licenses sold by SAP. If you don't then
>> I suggest you ask your internal IBM sources.
>>
>>>> If you are asking about E-Business Suite then there is something we
>>>> can discuss but it would be off-topic in this usenet group which is
>>>> for server technology and I would direct you to look at Oracle's
>>>> TimesTen In-Memory Cache.
>>> You are off topic. The SAP BIA is server technology and not a front end
>>> cache. TmesTen has no relation.
>> No doubt you also think RAID is a hardware technology.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
> 
> Intenetion of my  thread is not to discuss Oracle vs DB2 or SAP
> Application vs e-business suite, instead
> to discuss BI accleator technology, where SAP is implementing data
> ware house in its own non-relational database structures and how BI
> accelator  dramatically improves performance.

I understand that. But you are in a database server group asking about an application technology that is in most cases (yes MOST Serge) going to be used in conjunction with an Oracle database.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon Nov 10 2008 - 10:53:05 CST

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