Product FAQs

What is QueryObject?
What are the benefits in using QueryObject as Data management Infrastructure?
What kind of application can be developed with QueryObject?
Why does QueryObject perform and scale so well?
Which are the key advantages QO ensures?
What are supported standards?
What front-end tools can be used to access the QueryObjects? Which have been certified as QO compatible?
Is it possible to access a QueryObject using a proprietary front-end tool?
What are the QO proprietary processes?
The security of the information contained into a QO is preserved also if it is detached from the host server and distributed physically via e-mail or CD-Roms
How much time does it take to train a user on QueryObjects ?
Which vertical market solutions can be (have been) developed with QO?



What is QueryObject?
QueryObject is an analytical data management technology that boosts existing big data infrastructures’ performances and is comprised of: 

An exact, complete, compressed, and de-normalized image of a selected portion of a data set read from any combination and collection of supported data sources;

A dense, materialized aggregated view of data copy built with highly efficient indexing methods and containing pre-calculated, ultra-efficient, and portable results for ALL possible queries on data copy;
Can be accessed by any kind of BI toolkit;
A set of dynamic correlation keys (through primary and secondary indexes) between aggregated views and DB copy

What are the benefits in using QueryObject as Data management Infrastructure?
Compression
Speed of generation
Scalability
High Performance Access
Simple, low cost, and comprehensive dynamic and static reporting
Openness to any type of Data Source (Oracle, SQL*Server, DB2 etc.);
Open access from any type of delivery tools (BO, Brio, Cognos, Data Beacon, MS Office, etc.);
Open access from and to any type of standard (XML, SOAP, ODBC, JDBC, etc);
Effective long term time series analysis;
No DB management system required
Platform portability, mobility
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What kind of application can be developed with QueryObject?
QueryObject has been successfully applied to the following markets:

Data Integration
CDI (Customer Data Integration) projects for Sales & Marketing, Sales Force Automation; Customer Profiling 
Pre/Post Aggregation Processing
High Volume Data Movement
Multiple Data Sources Access.
Business Intelligence
Extreme BI projects;
  Data Mart Solutions;
Historical Data Management Solutions;
  Business Intelligence on the fly;
  Disconnected-wireless Business Intelligence;
  Infrastructures and Frontend tools Performances crisis lifeguard;
Data Services
Data Exchange Services;
  Data Services Provisioning solutions;
   

Why does QueryObject perform and scale so well?
"Using proprietary mathematical algorithms we've solved the Big Data storage and its fast retrieval issues".

Which are the key advantages QO ensure?

QueryObject provides “Plug&Play” integration with existing Data Management system and Information Delivery applications.
On the back-end side, QueryObject provides seamless connectivity to any source data (relational, hierarchical, flat, transactional, warehouse, mainframe).

On the front-end side, QueryObject provides a deployment interface to leverage any existing or new analysis and reporting tool in the enterprise in a web or client/server infrastructure.

Below main advantage provided:

Seamless integration into existing infrastructure
Low TCO, (management, hardware, support & development)
Selective and secure distribution to both the connected and disconnected information consumer
Scalability up to the largest Terabyte class data sources
Speed of implementation (weeks instead of months).
Speed of delivery (the information available when it's needed).
Speed of access (seconds instead of minutes or hours).
Fully interactive
Fully customizable
Multi-channel support

 

What are supported standards?
ODBC
JDBC
OLE-DB
XML
SOAP
DES
 

What front-end tools can be used to access the QueryObjects? Which have been certified as QO compatible?
Any ODBC compliant front-end tool can be used to access the QueryObjectst. Follow this link to have a list of certified thirdy party tools.

Is it possible to access a QueryObject using a proprietary front-end tool?
Yes, we provide proprietary programmers interfaces in C and Java, as well as standards based interfaces suh as ODBC, JDBC, OLE-DB, XML.

How can QO be considered a product complementing BI toolkits such as Business Objects or Brio?
It can be used as the back-end optimized information store to support ‘speed-of-thought’ analysis on your data using the mentioned tools as a front end.

What front-end tools cab be used to access the QueryObjects? Which have been certified as QO compatible?
Any ODBC compliant front-end tool can be used to access the QueryObjects. We have certified as compatible Brio, Business Objects, Cognos PowerPlay, Crystal Reports, Informatica Power Analyzer, Microsoft Excel, Microstrategy, Pilot, SPSS.

Is it possible to access a QueryObject using a proprietary front-end tool?
Yes, we provide proprietary programmers interfaces in C and Java, as well as standards based interfaces suh as ODBC,JDBC,OLE-DB, XML

What are the QO proprietary processes?
Proprietary access API to QO. The entire data load, data processing is a proprietary combination of using some well known and best-of-breed approaches/algorithms.

The security of the information contained into a QO is preserved also if it is detached from the host server and distributed physically via e-mail or CD-Rom?
Yes, you can use LDAP servers for authenticating user/group logins; if the server is not available, you can fallback on the user accounts information stored in the QueryObject own security management file.

Which vertical market solutions can be (have been) developed with QO?
a. Telcos; 
b. Finance (banking, credit cards); 
c. Stock market; 
d. Insurances; 
e. Transportation; 
f.  Utilities; 
g. Logistics; 
h. National security; 
i.  Public Administration; 
j.  Healthcare; 
k. Bioinformatics.
l.  other data intensive applications.