OfficeMax Selects the ParAccel Analytic Database to Enhance Their Data Warehouse Environment; Retailer’s New Platform Provi...
August 10 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
ParAccel, Inc., provider of the record-breaking ParAccel
Analytic Database, a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel
(MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data
warehousing and analytics, today announced that OfficeMax®
(NYSE:OMX), a leading provider of office supplies and services,
will use the ParAccel Analytic Database to enhance the company’s
data warehousing environment.
After extensive due diligence that included 12 other database
products and concluded with an on-site proof of concept (POC)
comparing two columnar-MPP database vendors, OfficeMax selected the
ParAccel Analytic Database. In this comprehensive, customer-driven
POC, the ParAccel Analytic Database demonstrated more than 20X
performance improvement over OfficeMax’s current data warehouse
environment. The ParAccel Analytic Database was also the only
solution that met the requirements of a demanding market basket
analysis (complex analytic queries that require sophisticated
joining on detailed sales history). This was critically important
as OfficeMax is seeking to improve its merchandizing capabilities
and optimize promotions, shelf space and product placement for
promotional selling seasons and everyday offerings.
The ParAccel Scalable Analytic Appliance
ParAccel’s Scalable Analytic Appliance is an integrated data
warehouse platform that incorporates EMC networked storage and can
leverage EMC management suite software such as Navisphere and
RecoverPoint to provide fast, highly-scalable analytic computing
with enterprise-class manageability and availability. ParAccel’s
patent pending Blended Scan feature integrates a storage area
network (SAN) and local disks to deliver the industry’s best
analytic query performance leveraging SAN-enabled capabilities for
high availability and disaster recovery.
OfficeMax’s high-volume data processing workload required
extensive and frequent tuning, and specific complex queries often
took over six hours to complete. In the on-site trial, the ParAccel
Analytic Database ran these complex queries in less than 20 minutes
and will ultimately augment the current environment with powerful
ad-hoc capabilities.
“We are honored that OfficeMax has selected the ParAccel
Analytic Database to enhance their data warehouse platform,” said
ParAccel President and CEO David Ehrlich. “This prestigious
customer win represents the best of what ParAccel enables—the
ability to remedy an existing data warehouse environment and to
deploy breakthrough, previously infeasible business applications by
leveraging industry-leading performance, price-performance and
simplicity.”
“OfficeMax is excited about this partnership as it will provide
our business the query performance we require in a scalable,
cost-effective solution,” said Charlie Baugh, senior vice president
of Information Technology for OfficeMax.
About OfficeMax
OfficeMax Incorporated (NYSE:OMX) is a leader in both
business-to- business office products solutions and retail office
products. The OfficeMax mission is simple. We help our customers do
their best work. The company provides office supplies and paper,
in-store print and document services through OfficeMax ImPress®,
technology products and solutions, and furniture to consumers and
to large, medium and small businesses. OfficeMax customers are
served by more than 30,000 associates through direct sales,
catalogs, e-commerce and more than 1,000 stores. To find the
nearest OfficeMax, call 1-877-OFFICEMAX. For more information,
visit http://www.officemax.com/.
About ParAccel
ParAccel, Inc. is the proven leader in scalable analytic
performance and price-performance. The ParAccel Analytic Database™
is a new generation, MPP-Columnar DBMS that is delivering
breakthrough analytic performance and price-performance in customer
environments and audited industry benchmarks. Available as software
or a virtual or packaged data warehouse appliance, it can be
implemented on standard hardware from all major vendors. Leading
companies like OfficeMax use ParAccel to extend their analytic
performance advantage. ParAccel’s management team includes
technical founders and industry veterans from noted data management
companies Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, Gupta, SenSage, PointBase, and
IBM. ParAccel is based in California with offices in Cupertino and
San Diego. For more information please contact us at
info@paraccel.com or 866-903-0335, or visit us at
www.paraccel.com.
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