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May 9, 2007

SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator

I have time to time brought in selective performance-enhancements into client situations. I even wrote a white paper about one of them, RightOrder. SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator has come in and out of my life several times. It’s an in-memory analytic engine that performs its queries in-memory. It actually has quite a broad base of deployment and is shipped as an appliance (HP or IBM with Linux) and I think it’s worthwhile to think about in selective situations. It’s a BI product for SAP NetWeaver. There are features of the product that add a lot of value, like the high compression, which is enabled by the column-wise ordering of the data, which I’ll discuss below.

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