Vendors of commercial database management system face many challenges in incorporating into their products innovative technologies developed in academia. Pragmatic considerat,ions and operational requirements can limit the viability of applying promising research. Technology leadership in commercial products is often the result of taking unconventional approaches rather than following “conventi...

Based on the in-memory database HANA, SAP fundamentally rethought and redesigned its business process management offering. In this paper we explain how organizations can use the new product SAP Operational Process Intelligence to create real-time process visibility and propose line-ofbusiness workers appropriate actions to respond immediately on critical business situations. This product is des...

We describe how a generic multi-period optimization-based decision support system can be used for strategic and operational planning in a company whose processes can be described in terms of five fundamental elements: Materials, Facilities, Activities, Times and Storage-Areas. We discuss the issues of interface design, data reporting and updating, and production and profit planning. We also com...

We present the architecture of a so-called Seismic Data Management and Mining System (SDMMS) for quick and easy data collection, processing, and visualization. The proposed SDMMS architecture includes, among others, a seismological database for efficient and effective querying and a seismological data warehouse for OLAP analysis and data mining. We provide template schemes for these two compone...

The DØ experiment at Fermilab relies on a central Oracle database for storing all detector calibration information. Access to this data is needed by hundreds of physics applications distributed worldwide. In order to meet the demands of these applications from scarce resources, we have created a distributed system that isolates the user applications from the database facilities. This system, kn...

Design and testing of database engines and applications requires to construct and evaluate various alternative scenarios with respect to the database contents. To construct a scenario, existing methodology consumes space and time at least proportional to database size. This may limit the desired scenarios and/or make it infeasible to model them. In this work, we present CODD, a graphical tool t...

Requirements elicitation has been reported to be the stage of software development when errors have the most expensive consequences. Users usually find it difficult to articulate a consistent and complete set of requirements at the beginning of a development project. Prototyping is considered a powerful technique to ease this problem by exposing a partial implementation of the software system t...

financial statement of a company is a reflection of the operational and financial position of a company. the comparative analysis of two companies similar in nature, size, work, location and objectives etc., facilitates an understanding of the operational and financial soundness of the companies. the kingdom of saudi arabia is aiming for rapid industrialization in its economy. sahara petrochemi...

T he need for analysing corporate data for I The user community of operational data is different from those using informational or trends and strategic information is hardly new. In an ideal world, the analyst could analytical data. I The processing characteristics for the opersimply query the operational database in a corporation to ascertain the long-term effects of ational environment and th...