ParAccel Excelled Beyond 12 Competitors in an Extensive Due Diligence
and Supports a New Market Basket Analysis Application That Other
Platforms Couldn’t Successfully Run
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.
