FOCUS Fusion - High-Performance Database

Fusion High-Performance Database

Highlights

	Multi-dimensional indexing delivers exceptional performance and is fully tunable
	Intelligent partitioning stores multiple periods of data in one volume for fast analysis
	Powerful enterprise solution for data analysis, warehousing, and modeling
	500GB database capacity accommodates large volumes
	Accesses virtually all enterprise data via EDA middleware
	Available as a FOCUS option for Windows NT™, UNIX, and FOCUS for S/390 VM and MVS
	Options for Web reporting using Java and ActiveX thin clients

High-Capacity Database for Rapid Data Retrieval and Online Analysis

FOCUS Fusion delivers exceptional performance for enterprise reporting, business intelligence, and decision support. Fusion's multi-dimensional indexing technology and 500GB database size provide the speed and storage capacity required for comparative analysis of large volumes of enterprise data. And its Intelligent Partitioning capabilities enable different historical periods to be stored in separate partitions of the same logical database, further optimizing data analysis operations.

FOCUS Fusion runs on all major platforms – NT, UNIX, and S/390 VM and MVS – making it a scalable and flexible solution for enterprise-wide information staging, storage, and retrieval. Performance can be further enhanced using options from the Information Builders Data Warehousing suite, which provides extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) facilities, performance monitoring and management, metadata management, and data modeling – potentially front-ended by hundreds of popular front-end PC tools, and thin-client Java and ActiveX applications.

Fast, Scalable, and Cost-Effective

FOCUS Fusion makes costly, repetitive database scans a thing of the past. Rather than wasting resources on full file scans, Fusion's innovative database design reads only file "areas" containing requested values. Its multi-dimensional index also minimizes retrieval time, so users can retrieve in minutes answer sets that once took hours. And FOCUS Fusion delivers this speed and cost-efficiency through a scalable database design with a 500GB storage capacity for storing both detail and summary data – no other data retrieval or analytical processing solution even comes close!