Compaq and Oracle Win Best Practices Award for Data Warehousing Solution

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The Data Warehousing Institute recently announced the winner of its Best Practices Award in the Very Large Data Warehouse Technology category, and the honor goes to the State of New York, Office of the Attorney General/Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU). This award recognizes innovative IT solutions that address common data warehousing challenges. The MFCU's solution, powered by Compaq and Oracle, has made a significant impact on the organization's ability to investigate and prosecute Medicaid providers.

Key Takeaways:

  • The State of New York, Office of the Attorney General/Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) won the Best Practices Award for its innovative data warehousing solution, which consists of a Compaq AlphaServer 8400 host with five ES10000 Enterprise Storage Arrays containing 3.7 terabytes of raw storage.
  • The operating system is Compaq Tru64 UNIX version 4.0E running Oracle8 Enterprise Edition, making it one of the largest single-node implementations of an Oracle data warehouse in the world.
  • The solution allows for over 300 users across the state to query against terabytes of claims data and receive answers within seconds or minutes, instead of weeks. No query has gone unanswered.
  • Compaq and Oracle collaborated to provide a tested and proven solution that can be quickly deployed with reduced risk, demonstrating the strength of their partnership.
  • The partnership between Compaq and Oracle ensures that customers can have complete confidence in knowing Oracle's products will continue to be fully optimized for their future environments.
  • This solution has significantly improved the MFCU's ability to investigate and prosecute Medicaid providers, making it a real-world example of the impact of data warehousing solutions.

Statistics:

  • The solution contains 3.7 terabytes of raw storage.
  • Over 300 users query against terabytes of claims data and receive answers within seconds or minutes.
  • Compaq is the second-largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of computer systems.

Sources:

  • The Data Warehousing Institute
  • Compaq Computer Corporation
  • Oracle
  • http://www.compaq.com/partners/Oracle/tdwi.html
  • http://www.compaq.com/