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Tax Day -- Are you ready? The IRS sure is!

Did you know that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has one of the most sophisticated analytical environments to detect tax payer fraud? Yep, it's true according to the technology company supporting it...

Since today is tax day across America, I thought it would be appropriate to let you know what the IRS has -- just in case you thought about fudging a few of your numbers... The Research Department of the IRS has created a single integrated environment using Sybase IQ technology. Yikes!

According to the case study, this data management and analytics system was built for the IRS user community to provide fast, flexible analysis. This "Compliance data warehouse" (CDW)holds seven years worth of business and individual tax return raw data, amounting to 12 TB of input data (compressed at a 70% compression rate with IQ). Now these users can slice and dice, look for fraud, analyze trends in tax returns to their hearts' content. Pretty scary, huh?

And today they are about to get another 1.7 TB of tax information!

Sigh -- yours in BI success...

Claudia

  Posted by Claudia Imhoff on April 15, 2005 8:34 AM |

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