InterSystems - InterSystems DeepSee

Abstract

InterSystems DeepSee™ is a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that enables the real-time analysis of transactional data, and is designed to be optimal for embedding within transactional applications. Business users in healthcare, government, financial services, telecommunications, retail, and logistics require analysis and alerting based on current data for real-time decision making. DeepSee has four modules that provide capabilities for building data models, analytical elements, dashboards, and connections to external data sources. DeepSee provides additional analytical functionality to both InterSystems Caché® and InterSystems Ensemble® – two of InterSystems’ long-established offerings. Caché is an object database; DeepSee data models are built using transactional data from Caché and therefore do not require a traditional data warehouse. Ensemble is an integration and development platform; DeepSee extends the orchestration capabilities of Ensemble, so that complex data analysis and decision making can be automated and embedded in applications. Although it is still early days for DeepSee, Butler Group believes that this solution is well positioned to meet the needs of the growing real-time BI market, and merits serious consideration from application developers and enterprises with an installed base of InterSystems technology.

Key Findings

Strength

• Data models are built using transactional data from an object database, without the need for a data warehouse.
• Provides modules for easily building data models, analytics, and dashboards.
• The underlying object-oriented Caché database enables rapid querying of complex multidimensional data.
• Bitmap indexing coupled with techniques such as compression further enhance querying performance.

Information

• InterSystems has 1,300+ application partners.
• Supports Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac, and Open VMS platforms.

Weakness

• The client interface is currently restricted to Internet Explorer.
• Does not support advanced analytics, which might be a requirement in certain areas.

Look Ahead

Future DeepSee enhancements include support for additional Web browsers, integration of InterSystems Zen™ Ajax framework and Zen Reports™, extended APIs, and native support for MDX queries.

Read the full Technology Audit on the Butler Group Web site.