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IntelligenceAt The Speed

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How Vectorwise, the world’s fastest and most cost-effective analytical database is transforming business intelligence and analysis, from Wall Street to research institutes.

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What Our Partners Are Saying About Vectorwise...“Vectorwise is the only product that can process

such an amount of data with standard SQL

queries. In addition to database performance, an

important factor in selecting Vectorwise was the

license model.”

Michael Thuleweit, MD at Datamatics Global Services GmbH

“Social Media, mobile devices and new

infrastructure, such as smart meters, mean that

more data is being collected than ever before.

We wanted to make reporting and analysis faster,

more intuitive and more affordable for the masses.

After a long search we chose Vectorwise database

because it offers unparalleled performance on large

data sets.”

Matt Cowie, Director of Sales at ecommbi

“Together with Vectorwise, our customers can

run intuitive reports and dashboards, and act

quickly on data stored across their enterprise

with next-generation mobile apps that speed their

businesses forward.”

Sanju Bansal, COO at MicroStrategy

“The huge amount of data accumulated by our

customers on a daily basis demands a powerful,

high-speed analytical database engine. The market

for this type of solution is extremely limited,

and prices are very high. Vectorwise database

technology features vector-based processing,

delivering astounding performance at an extremely

competitive price.”

Laurent Descamps, Head of Numsight Information Services

“Our customers are facing new challenges – they

need to manage big volumes of data from multiple

sources and then deliver relevant information to

the right person, at the right place and at the

right moment. By providing powerful analytics and

interactive reporting of big data volumes at a lower

cost, Vectorwise delivers unprecedented insight

to medium and larger organizations across various

industries at a very competitive price. Actian has

been a partner of Business & Decision for many

years and we’re delighted to be able to build further

upon our relationship.”

Jean-Michel Franco, Business Solution Director at Business & Decision

“Vectorwise could do any query we wanted in under

1 second. In a pathological case, Postgres took over

13 minutes.”

Dan Sanders, Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems

“Effectively managing Big Data can provide a

critical advantage to organizations looking to

differentiate themselves from competitors. We

are excited to be part of an offering that will help

enterprises as they seek to quickly and easily

analyze, visualize and share their business and

customer information.”

Suzanne Hoffman, Director of Channel Sales at Tableau

“Vectorwise has accelerated the analytic and

reporting service by a factor of 100X.”

Jeroen de Vries, CEO at Softwear

Record-Breaking* Vectorwise Helps Customers Take Action On Big Data


Independent benchmarks show that Vectorwise is the fastest database for interactive reporting, data analysis and business intelligence. And Vectorwise achieves this while spending less per query, meaning you can spend less on hardware and less on performance tuning. Creating fast reporting and analytics environments has never been easier.

Vectorwise is so powerful it can simplify your data warehouse architecture. Allowing you to create BI projects faster, and allowing BI users to access reports sooner. End users will feel empowered knowing they can drill down into millions, or billions of rows of data in seconds.

• Record-BreakingPerformance• UnmatchedPrice/Performance• FasterandEasierDeployment• AnalyzeMoreData

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June ‘12

May ‘11

Aug ‘11

June ‘11

Sept ‘11

Apr ‘11

Dec ‘11

Apr ‘11

Dec ‘11

Vectorwise 445,529

Vectorwise 436,788

SQL Server 219,888

Oracle 209,534

Oracle 201,487

SQL Server 173,962

Sybase IQ 164,747

Oracle 140,181

SQL Server 134,117

Hardware Cost(excluding discounts)

$57,146

$85,621

$460,869

$2,402,706

$753,392

$278,527

$1,229,968

$1,249,967

$258,880

Fastest TPC-H@1TB Benchmark (non-clustered)

Source: www.tpc.org / June 15 2012

TPC, TPC Benchmark, TPC-H, QphH, QthH and QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)

Experience faster query performance using less hardware.Reduce your costs, benefit from affordable analytics.


“Position analysis was 10 to 50 times faster with Vectorwise than with other leading databases”Steve Ferrando, CEO at dbConcert

Vectorwise | ecommerce

Badoo Quickens The Pulse With Big Data Insight From Actian VectorwiseBadoo’s marketing team wanted to understand if campaigns are targeting the right audience and assess the effectiveness of their reach and impact swiftly. To do that this, they knew that they needed a database solution that would turn their large data volumes into meaningful and actionable business insight (BI).

Rapiddataanalysisiskeytoprovidingmeaningfulinsightsonmarketingcampaigneffectivenessandonlineuseractivitywhichcreatesmorefruitfulrelationships.

After implementing Actian’s turbo-charged Vectorwise technology, Badoo now has access to fast actionable BI that empowers internal business managers such as the finance department to respond immediately and to support business planning.

“…wecannowaskanythingofourdataandourusers’activityandgetanswersinjustseconds.Vectorwise’sperformancewillmakeourcompanymoreagileinrespondingtotrendsintheenvironmentandconsequentlystrengthenourcompetitiveadvantage”

Ian Broadhead, BI lead at Badoo

Available to:• 150millionmembers

• Across180countries

• In40differentlanguages


“Queries that took 13 minutes take less than one second with Vectorwise”Dan Sanders, Advanced E-Commerce Research Systems


Vectorwise | finance

Faster Analysis For Better Hedge Fund DecisionsIn an environment where information about positions, pricing and risk is critical to investment decision- making, The Rohatyn Group (TRG) provides analysts with immediate access to the information they need.

In sourcing a replacement for the outdated database, TRG wanted the user tools to remain the same and the query responses to be interactive, but they needed to do the analysis on more than 1000 times the data.

Vectorwise provided better than in-memory performance for interactions with data residing on disk. Fast performance was delivered out-of-the-box without any indexing, pre-aggregating results, or extensive database tuning.

“Rightoutofthebox,ActianVectorwiseletsuseffortlesslyplowthroughmillionsandmillionsofrowsofdatawithinfinitewidthanddepthandwithouttheneedfornewexpensivehardware,complicatedschemas,explicitindexing,pre-aggregationorspecificallyhand-craftedDBA-tunedSQL”

Incredible results against:• 2CPUcores

• 2GBofMemory

• Millionsofrowsofhistoricaldata

• Inasingletablewithalmost

300 columns


“Thanks to Vectorwise, we cut the time it took to understand and engage with our customers by 50%” Roy Hann, Managing Director at Rational Commerce


Vectorwise | retail

Global DIY Retail Chain Accelerates Business Insight With Actian GROUPEADEOextendsitsrelationshipwithActian. The group is the second largest home improvement retailer in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. Despite the company’s experience of using Business Intelligence across this wide range of data, companies in the group needed a more affordable and user-friendly solution.

GROUPEADEOacquiresVectorwisetounlockthepotentialoflatentBusinessIntelligenceacrossglobalbrandportfolio.

The new solution will be designed to offer customers the ability to create Action Apps in a few easy steps, from the monitoring and analysis of data to the definition of priority data events and the automatic delivery of Business Actions, when data events occur.

“TwoofourmajorretailershavebeenusingActian’srelationaldatabase,IngresfortheircriticalPointOfSaleapplications.Ingresprovedtobearobustandprovensolution.ItwaslogicalforustocontinuewithIngresandalsoimplementActian’sanalyticaldatabase,Vectorwise”

IT Systems Director, GROUPE ADEO

The group:• 24companiesin

• 12countries

• hundredsofstores

• multipleretailconcepts

• millionsofdailysalestranslations


“Up to 70x increase in performance” Michael Thuleweit, MD at Datamatics Global Services GmbH


Vectorwise | ecommerce

Unruly Media Bring Big Data To Social VideoThousandsoforganisationsuseUnruly’sproprietaryplatform to deliver, track and analyze social media engagement and brand interaction.

Unruly’sproprietarysocialvideotechnologyplatformcannowdelivercampaigndataatunprecedentedspeeds.

LaunchedaspartofUnruly’sSocialVideo+programme,VectorwiseallowsUnrulytobuildonitsexistingproprietary platform to run real-time analytics and queries without the need for costly hardware. The databaseallowsUnrulyclientsandcampaignexecstocut through data at lightning speed to deliver insight and intelligence, analyse key trends and enable real-time campaign optimisation against client KPIs.

WithUnrulysettoaggressivelygrowitsdeveloperheadcountandrevenuesin2012,Vectorwisewillplay an integral role as the company scales its global presence and technology platform to meet the exponential growth in demand from brands requiring social video advertising.

“Vectorwiseenablesreal-timeoptimisationtoensurethatbrandsusingUnruly’splatformareoutperformingcompetitorsinthesocialvideospace”

Dan Best, Planning Director, UnrulyDelivered to Date:• 1.34BillionVideoViews

• 1,400+GlobalBrandVideoCampaigns


“We knew that this breakthrough technology came with pedigree”Robin Lazenby, Sales Director at Meteorite Consulting


Vectorwise | transport

Actian Helps European Freight And Cargo Company To Fight Theft TimoCom, the market leader in European freight exchange, were seeking intelligent control and analysis of its 300,000 daily international cargo space and freightoffersfrommorethan85,000users.

TimoComachieves100xfasterdataanalysiswithVectorwise.

Their database in its existing form had reached its capacity and they needed to manage an increasing amount of data for analysis and reporting so they switched to Vectorwise.

The new analytic capabilities not only provide more effective and deeper insight into customer behavior but also enable an enhanced ability to identify any irregularities which will prevent theft.

“Ourdatabaseinitsexistingformhadreacheditslimit.WeswitchedtoVectorwisebecauseweneedtomanageanincreasingamountofdataforanalysisandreporting.Thenewanalyticcapabilitiesnotonlyprovideuswithmoreeffectiveanddeeperinsightintocustomerbehaviorbutalsoallowustobenefitfromanenhancedabilitytoidentifyirregularitiesandpreventtheft”

Ingo Klose, Manager Business Intelligence at TimoCom

Huge volumes of data:• 300,000dailycargospaceand

freight offers

• 85,000+users


“Milliseconds to slice and dice data vs. a legacy system that took 20 seconds to write a query and then 90 seconds to execute it”Jeroen de Vries, CEO at Softwear BV


Vectorwise | government

Actian Helps Irish Revenue Clamp Down On Fraud And Tax EvasionThe Office of the Revenue Commissioners is responsible for the administration, assessment and collection of taxes, and the implementation of Customs law. It processesmorethan200differenttypesofdeclarationsand returns, covering all categories of taxes and duties foracustomerbaseofapproximately2.2millionindividualPAYEtaxpayersandover750,000businessesincluding sole traders.

VectorwisefiresupperformanceandspeedofanalysistomeetRevenue’sreportingrequirements.

Revenue decided to review Vectorwise and gauge how its performance and speed advantages would benefit their analytical reporting solutions. Vectorwise has allowed Revenue to deliver applications to its business users via its business intelligence portal within a matter of seconds without resorting to building data aggregates, or staging data.

“Inourownbenchmarksandinternaltesting,wesoonrealizedjusthowfastVectorwisewas,andasdatasetsgetbigger,thatperformancedifferentialbecomesevenmoresignificant”

Maureen Byrne, Business Intelligence Manager, Revenue

Responsible for:• 2.2millionindividualtaxpayers

• 750,000+businesses


“Vectorwise helps to optimize costs, maintain high quality and a positive customer service”Jarrid Magalich, Technical Services Manager at Sheetz


Vectorwise | public

On The Hunt For The Next Big Medical DiscoveryTheOxfordUniversityClinicalTrialServiceUnit(CTSU)primarily studies the causes and treatment of chronic diseases such as cancer, heart attack or stroke (which, collectively, account for most adult deaths worldwide).

ThroughitsinvolvementwiththeUKBiobankproject, the unit is collecting many thousands of pieces of information from each of more than half a million volunteers and will make this data available anonymously to the worldwide scientific community.

Vectorwiseisfastanditworks;theanalyticdatabasedoeswhatitpromisestodo.

“We need solutions that are easy to migrate and that will work hand in hand with the longevity of the data we hold.InthecaseoftheBiobankproject,over500,000people volunteered information about themselves and our systems and solutions have to be able to cope with their present and future data.”

CTSUhasnowdramaticallyimprovedtheserviceitcanofferitsusersthatwanttomineandanalyzetheUKBiobank data. “It is incredible to think that Vectorwise’s performance makes it possible to run queries that were previously impossible,” explains Geraint Jones,

databaseadministratoratCTSU.“We’vegonefrombeing used to seeing queries hang or take an age to run, to complete disbelief in seeing just how fast Vectorwise handles them and returns results. Simply jaw-dropping.”

In a world where researchers are looking for the next bigdiscovery,CTSUissafeguardedforthefuturewithVectorwise. Not only can the organization meet the demands of its users today, it will continue to do so in the future. “Vectorwise is fast and it works,” ends Martin Bowes.

“Theturnaroundforanalyticalqueriesissimplyamazing.Insteadoftakingdaystosatisfyusers’verycomplexqueries,Vectorwisereturnsresultsinjustminutes,meaningthatinformationcangetouttouserswhoneedittoruntheirdiscoveryprojectsveryquicklyindeed”

Martin Bowes, Database Administrator at CTSU

The study:• Collectingthousandsofpieces

of information

• Fromover500,000volunteers

• Tobemade(anonymously)

available worldwide


“The turnaround for complex analytical queries is simply amazing. Vectorwise returns results in just minutes”

Jos van Dongen, Tholis Consulting


Vectorwise | retail

Actian Vectorwise Helps Fast Growing U.S. Convenience Store ChainSheetz,oneofthefastestgrowingU.S.conveniencestores, performs extensive analysis on numerous types of data from multiple sources as a way to optimize costs, maintain high quality, and ensure that the overall experience of their customers is both positive and consistent.

As data volumes continue to grow, Sheetz recognized that switching from a more expensive platform to Vectorwise will save them money and present new opportunities to take action on Big Data.

Incredibleresultsagainstmillionsofrowsofhistoricaldatainasingletable.

Sheetz selected Vectorwise, the industry’s fastest data analytics engine, to optimize costs, maintain high quality and ensure a positive customer experience.

The required application changes were minimal and the biggest technical changes related to “singleton inserts” (row at a time data loading) and table storage structure (schema) definitions. On top of a yearly savings and the record-breaking speed of Vectorwise, the convenience store chain was surprised at the ease with which new Vectorwise functionality was added to their environment.

“Datagrowthisoccurringatrecordrates.It’simportantforSheetztohaveaplantomanagethisgrowth,maintainandimprovecurrentservicelevels–evenwithagrowinguserbase–andreduceinfrastructurecostswhereverpossible.Basedonourexperiencesofar,weareimpressedwiththeresultsofVectorwiseandplantoinvestigateadditionalActianproductslikeitsnewCloudActionPlatformandActionApps”

Jarrid Magalich, Technical Services Manager at Sheetz

About the business:• Morethan406locations

• Acrosssixstates

• Numeroustypesofdata

• Multipledatasources


“Vectorwise’s performance will make our company more agile and strengthen our competitive advantage”Ian Broadhead, BI Lead at Badoo


Vectorwise | healthcare

Medical Data Vision Enhances The Quality Of Medical Care With Actian VectorwiseMedical Data Vision develops and sells management support software designed for hospitals and other healthcare providers including Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) service. EBM aims to improve the quality of medical care by analyzing and sharing the medical results using clinical data, epidemiological studies, market research and drug development. EBM service can collect large volumes of data which can slow query performance.

“We needed a high performance database for our Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) service which analyzes medical data gathered from hospitals. Over a period of2months,weevaluated5otherhighperformancedatabase options and only discovered Vectorwise in the last week of testing. At first we were doubtful of claims citing analytical speeds of 70-100x faster, but our own testing confirmed these astonishing results. We tested and selected Vectorwise in the last week of our evaluation period based on outstanding high performance and affordability. We are very grateful of what Vectorwise enables us to achieve. Now we can deliver faster analytical insights on large and complex volumes of medical data.”Shinji Hirai, Business Development Division of MDV

EBM service can collect large volumes of data which can slow query performance. With the aid of their partners Cyber Systems, Medical Data Vision selected the Vectorwise analytical database to enable their EBM service to deliver faster results on large volumes of medical data.

“The top criteria Medical Data Vision gave us was fast performance for complex reports from big medical data.. It also had to use commodity hardware and be easy to use and maintain. We evaluated databases on virtualenvironmentsonAmazonEC2runningvariousSQL queries on high volumes of real medical data. Vectorwise delivered far superior performance.”Masashi Ono, Director of Cyber Systems.

“Atfirstweweredoubtfulofclaimscitinganalyticalspeedsof70-100xfaster,butourowntestingconfirmedtheseastonishingresults”

Shinji Hirai, MDV

Improving the quality of medical care:• Analyzesandsharesmedicalresults

• Multiplemedicaldatasources

• Largeandcomplexvolumesofdata


“Vectorwise delivers timely knowledge that will help us drive revenue”Edward Mezyk, Senior Project Coordinator at NK Research


Vectorwise | retail

Vectorwise Empowers Softwear To Offer Customers High-Speed Intuitive AnalyticsFoundedin1988,Softwearhelps600retailersand120wholesale companies run their ERP and POS systems as well as benefit from deep-dive analytic reporting to drive their business.

Since2002,Softwear’sentireportfolioofproducts,solutionsand services has been on- demand and hosted in the cloud. No data is on any customer’s hardware on their premises; instead it is hosted in Softwear’s data centers. With its audience having no expertise in IT, Softwear offers training and help to get their customers started; in effect, Softwear serves as the IT department for its clients.

With database tables growing from millions of records to potentially billions, the company’s transactional-based database solution just could not keep up with the analytic demands from the customers. Furthermore, Softwear wanted to streamline the applications and amount of hardware that was needed in its data centers to run its offerings. And Softwear wanted to offer the analytic reporting layer as a SaaS- based on-demand online solution.

Vectorwise–highperformanceanalytics.Following an extensive period of testing, it became clear how different Vectorwise was in terms of increased query

and analytic speeds and how both Softwear and its customer base could manipulate analytic reporting data. Once they had set up a process to bulk copy historical data from the company’s source systems into Vectorwise, they ranteststhatshowedhowtheirlegacysystemfirsttook20secondstowriteaqueryandthen80secondstoexecuteit – for data on one company with one outlet. And yet Vectorwise allowed the company to see all their customers’ data in just one database table and slice and dice the data in just milliseconds. Furthermore, with plans to grow their Vectorwise database to 10 billion line items, Softwear continues to test the database for scalabilty and sees no degradation in performance as it grows in size.

Benefits:• Queriesreturnedinmilli-seconds

• Analyticandreportingservice

accelerated by a factor of 100X

• Reducedserverhardwarefootprint

for analytics


“BydeployingVectorwise,wearenowabletoseeallourcustomers’datainonedatabasetableandsliceanddicethedatainjustmilliseconds.Thisisinstarkcontrasttoourlegacysystemwhichfirsttook20secondstowriteaqueryandthen80secondstoexecuteit,andthiswasfordatathatrelatedtojustonecompanywithoneoutlet”

Jeroen de Vries, CEO of Softwear BV

Vectorwise

About Actian VectorwiseActian’s Vectorwise analytic database is one of the most significant database technology innovations of the last twenty years and meets broad business demands to analyze the exploding volumes of data. Written from the ground up to utilize the latent processing power in modern hardware, Vectorwise delivers dramatically higher data processing rates compared to other relational databases. Since its launch in June2010,Vectorwisehasachievedperformanceincreasesin commercial deployments surpassing 100X that of existing databases – without the need for tuning, indexing and materialized view strategies.

About ActianActian Corporation is the first to unveil a cloud development platform for building Action Apps. Action Apps are lightweight consumer-style applications that automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Actian products incite action at more than 10,000 customers worldwide by driving their mission critical workloads and providing rapid action insights to their data. Actian is headquartered in Redwood City, California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Melbourne.

Summary: Intelligence at the Speed of ThoughtWhen data volumes explode, traditional databases become slow and expensive. Vectorwise helps organizations in all industries analyze and monetize Big Data faster, yet requires less hardware and virtually no database tuning. Vectorwise delivers a generational leap in performance on commodity hardware by leveraging the latest features in modern CPUs.Asaresult,Vectorwisedeliversrecordbreakingperformance, price performance and energy efficiency.

Test DriveVectorwise TodayGetting started with Vectorwise is easy. Vectorwise is

available for Linux and Windows. Connect using JDBC,

ODBC, .NET or the Vectorwise bulk loader. Connect to

your preferred BI front-end application and query your

data using industry-standard SQL.

Download:

www.actian.com/downloads/vectorwise

About Vectorwise:

www.actian.com/products/vectorwise

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