Project REAL Partners

Project REAL is a cooperative effort between Microsoft and a set of partner companies known for their expertise in their respective fields. Each partner committed resources to the project and agreed to perform technical work that focused on developing general best practices, not on distributing marketing information. The partners are listed below along with their areas of focus:

Apollo Data Technologies

Apollo Data Technologies is implementing the data mining models and integrating them so they would always be "live" as the data is updated.

EMC

EMC provided substantial storage resources for the project, implemented the data integrity features of the system, and provided a backup system for the project.

Emulex

Emulex provided host bus adapters (HBAs) for connecting the servers to the storage subsystems.

Intellinet

Intellinet designed and implemented the overall ETL system at Barnes and Noble and then modified it to meet the needs of a model implementation for Project REAL.

Panorama

Panorama is developing various client access strategies for the system to model the connectivity and security needs of intranet, wide-area network, and Internet users, and also will develop a showcase front-end system for Project REAL.

Proclarity

Proclarity developed and documented guidelines for migrating Analysis Services 2000 implementations to Analysis Services 2005, and also will develop a showcase client front-end system for Project REAL.

Scalability Experts

Scalability Experts designed and implemented the data lifecycle management functionality, including the partitioning of relational tables and Analysis Services cubes, and implemented the management of partitions in the ETL processing.

Unisys

Unisys contributed expertise from their Business Intelligence Center of Excellence and substantial hardware resources including 32-bit and 64-bit servers. Unisys also designed and implemented the monitoring system used for ongoing operations.

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