Banco America Do Sul S.A. Builds Large Centralized Data Warehouse On Informix Database Technology.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998-- Brazilian Bank Targets Customer Management Information for Competitive Advantage Informix(R) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the leading developer of innovative database technology, announced today that Banco America do Sul, one of the largest private commercial banks in Brazil, is implementing a large centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. data warehouse and several data marts A subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function. A data mart may have tens of gigabytes of data rather than hundreds of gigabytes for the entire enterprise. See data warehouse. , running on Informix database technology. "The project is expected to pay for itself in the next three years, as well as result in profits generated by information technology," said Vicent Kawakami, executive director at Banco America do Sul. "The data warehouse will help the bank get a better return on investment by product with more accurately targeted audiences and improved direct marketing efficiencies." Faced with stiff competition, Banco America do Sul began this project in early 1997 to target customer management information and decision support systems in order to speed access to strategic information and facilitate the analysis of the relationships between clients, products and services. Based on this knowledge, the bank can restructure its business to maximize productivity and reduce its operational costs. Central to the bank's customer management information project is a large centralized data warehouse running Informix Dynamic Server(TM), Informix's core database technology designed to support online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ) and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse applications. The data warehouse at Banco America do Sul will store information about the financial performance of approximately 700,000 clients over a three-year period. To date, eight months of data have been loaded into the data warehouse, and one data mart is in production. The data warehouse currently holds 400 gigabytes of data and is expected to grow to one terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. when all the transactional data is loaded. Unisys do Brazil is the system integrator on the project. "Informix data warehouse solutions are based on a single database that scales from the smallest data mart to the largest enterprise warehouse," explained Claudio Pecorari, manager of Brazil operations at Informix. "This translates to a low cost to implement, maintain, and grow as Banco America do Sul grows. Yet Banco America do Sul's ease of use, information discovery and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). will be unmatched." Customer information will be available to every level of bank management at Banco America do Sul, from directors to bank agency managers, throughout the country. Over 500 users will have access to the warehouse information through data marts. From the data marts, each user will have a consolidated view of their area and be able to make standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. or customized queries against the data. -0-
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Informix Corporation
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-0- About Informix Informix Corporation, the world's database technology leader, based in Menlo Park, provides innovative database products that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing parallel processing, the concurrent or simultaneous execution of two or more parts of a single computer program, at speeds far exceeding those of a conventional computer. applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, OLTP, and Web/content management. For more information visit our Web site at http://www.informix.com. -0- Note to Editors: (c)1998 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affliates: Informix(R) and Informix Dynamic Server(TM). Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 1-800-356-0851. CONTACT: Informix Corporation Susan D'Elia, 650/344-1260 103376.2005@compuserve.com or Informix do Brosil Roberto de Carvalho, +55-11-5188-1000 roberto@informix.com |
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