Don't let traditional vendors convince you to spend huge sums of money on the same old methods. There is a better way - with SenSage. We'll lower your data warehouse costs by 70% AND get actionable results quickly - results that you can use to make better business decisions.
Like most projects involving software, the implementation and support of an event data warehouse requires two distinct cost categories:
Capital expenditures (CAPEX) - The costs involved with the acquisition and initial deployment of the solution.
Operating expenditures (OPEX) - The ongoing costs of maintaining and using the solution.
This example is an actual customer evaluation that compared an event data warehouse to leading data warehouse software and appliance based approaches and yielded the following TCO results for CAPEX and OPEX over three years:
3 Year TCO Analysis of a 4TB Event Data Warehouse
The event data warehouse approach results in massive savings - over 70% - when compared with either of these traditional methods.
Digging a level deeper, the following simple example shows the complexity of setting up a traditional data warehouse for proper analysis. This example uses the capture, retention and analysis of 4 terabytes of call detail records for revenue assurance and other uses.
Note that while this actual customer example requires the storage of call detail records (CDR), the example is equally valid for other event types such as ATM and debit card transactions, Internet banking transactions, RFID and many other event types. In this instance the customer created a data warehouse with a single fact table for analysis that required over 1000 physical objects. SenSage achieved the same result with a single object.
The order of magnitude of effort to create and maintain a traditional data warehouse compared to an event data warehouse is impossible to ignore. While this example uses Oracle, similar results are found with solutions that rely on Postgres and other relational database technologies. These objects require physical space (CAPEX) to store their contents and also continual database administrator support (OPEX) to maintain.
The above examples help illustrate how SenSage Event Data Warehouse Solutions provide dramatically lower CAPEX and OPEX than traditional and newer appliance-based data warehouse solutions.
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