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Decision Advantage for Cost-Effective Services and
Products Designed to Minimize Customers' Risk Implementing
Decision Support Systems
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB) August 23, 2005 -- C-Byte,
Inc., today outlined its Decision Advantage roadmap for
cost-effective services and products that are designed to
minimize customers' risk when implementing Decision Support
Systems (DSS).
"Decision Advantage is C-Byte's
response to strong customer demand for packaged offerings that
control costs and minimize risks when implementing
enterprise-wide DSS," said Trevor Biscope, chairman, C-Byte,
Inc. "The broad range of services and products we offer is
designed to fit each customers' level of need, providing the
tools and knowledge needed to gain competitive edge and grow
their business."
Initial Offerings Focus on the
Warehouse
The Decision Advantage roadmap for customers
outlines a series of offerings, some of which are now
available, with others to come in the second half
2006:
Proof of Concept: a service that demonstrates the
business benefits of a data warehouse before the customer
embarks on a full-scale implementation. Proof of Concept uses
the customer's data, or a subset of the data, to build a
demonstration system in three to six weeks. This approach
demonstrates the benefits of DSS in the customer's own
environment, minimizing technology and integration risks while
educating the IS department before full implementation. Proof
of Concept also provides customers with a realistic sense of
the challenges involved in delivering operational DSS and data
warehouse systems.
Complete Warehouse: available since
June, this service brings together best-of-breed software and
hardware components with C-Byte's proven methodologies,
consulting services and support to implement the first phase
of a production DSS based on a data warehouse.
Business Benefit Analysis: this new Decision Advantage
service, available in the second half of 2005, addresses a key
challenge facing companies embarking on a data warehousing
strategy. Gaining agreement on the justification and priority
of projects within a data warehousing program. The planning
phase is critical to the success of a project, and this
Business Benefit Analysis service leverages C-Byte's
experience in successfully facilitating this process at many
large customer sites around the world.
Additional
Decision Advantage Offerings Will Address Microsoft Windows
and Data Mining
Microsoft Windows: for cost and
operational reasons, an increasing number of organizations are
attempting to incorporate Microsoft Windows into their data
warehousing architectures. Based on its experience in building
high-end systems that capitalize on the benefits of UNIX/Linux
and Microsoft Windows while minimizing transition risks,
C-Byte plans to introduce a package of hardware, software,
services and support that enables the implementation of
Microsoft Windows in the data center.
Data Mining:
C-Byte will also expand its Decision Advantage portfolio of
offerings to focus on Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery in
Databases (KDD), featuring partnerships with leading and
emerging tools vendors that enable new ways of exploiting
information resources to solve complex business issues.
The first of these offerings, Complete Warehouse for
Database Marketing, will use KDD to open up new possibilities
for database marketing with support for the direct, one-to-one
relationship that companies in myriad industries are now
trying to build with their customers.
For
organizations that deal with high transaction volumes,
C-Byte's Complete Warehouse for Fraud Detection will work
on-line to spot questionable activity quickly and accurately
with no inconvience to legitimate customers. C-Byte's new
enterprise hardware platform is ideal for these applications,
as it is the first server family to enable on-line data mining
of information held directly in a data warehouse without
relying on out-of-date or limited, unrepresentative subsets.
Query Decision Support
Have a question? The quick
way to get an answer about Decision Support is phone C-Byte at
1-800-393-5804 or query online at http://www.c-byte.com/decisionsupport.php
About
C-Byte
C-Byte, Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta Canada, is a
leading architect and provider of open client/server systems
for commercial computer applications in on-line transaction
processing, decision support and messaging.
C-Byte
provides professional consulting and educational services to
ensure successful systems solutions. The company develops and
markets scalable computing systems that support enterprise
wide applications and information services: our server series
running on Linux/UNIX operating system, and the server family
running on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Since the
launch of its symmetric multiprocessor family of systems in
1989, C-Byte has installed more than 6,000 large-scale systems
worldwide.
For further information, phone C-Byte at
1-800-393-5804 or visit our Web site at http://www.c-byte.com , or purchase online
at http://www.c-byte.com/direct/ .
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