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Joydeep Das

Joydeep Das is a senior product manager at Sybase. His current area of focus is managing the Sybase IQ product line targeted at the data warehousing and analytics market. Check out the Sybase IQ Blog.

Articles By Joydeep Das

Posted 15 Jan 2008 / January 2008 Issue

Adding Competitive Muscle with In-Database Analytics

You're probably familiar with the old saying that "it's not what you know, it's who you know." That may have been true back in the days when conversations about competitive advantage concerned memberships at prestigious golf clubs and lavish expense accounts; in the days when data was regarded as mere records of transactions, production and inventory levels. Today's conversations about competitive advantage may still include talk of personal relationships. More frequently, though, these conversations reflect the relatively recent appreciation of the intrinsic value of enterprise data - a value seen not just by senior executives, but also by employees in virtually every department. There is broad consensus in most organizations that enterprise data, and perhaps more importantly, the ability to analyze large volumes or smaller subsets of data at will, in real time, are crucial business differentiators.

Posted 10 May 2010 / May 2010 Issue