Re: Walmart's suppliers access its data warehouse

The amusing part of this is that Wal-Mart doesn't use Informix for their data warehouse. That system runs the Teradata RDBMS. Wal-Mart does use Informix extensively, but not for their core data warehouse. >==========Michael E Willett, 10/2/96========== > >I just received my audio cassette of the data warehousing >session at the New York Financial Technology Expo >conference a few weeks ago. The panel included an Informix >representative and some senior executives with their own >big data warehouses. It was noted that Walmart has expanded >dramatically in large part to the competitive advantage it >has gained with its leading edge data warehouse, versus >what K Mart has been doing. It was said that even Walmart's >suppliers (vendors) access its data warehouse. > >The MCI data warehouse was said to be growing at about 50 GB >a month. A panelist said that MCI has vast information in >their data warehouse on their customers, including the friends >and family program they have. > >A banking application discussed was fraud detection where >customers are called up on the phone when their credit >card purchases depart from their usual patterns, either by >zip code or type of purchase. > >Mike Willett >Storage Computer >http://www.storage.com/ >http://www.storage.com/informix.html John Susag - john.susag@minneapolismn.ncr.com NCR Enterprise Consulting "We are the music makers and we are the makers of dreams" Willy Wonka