Abstract: A system may include a server and a data store system. The server may include at least one storage device and at least one processor. The server may execute an application and may store an encrypted password. The data store system may include at least one persistent storage device configured to store a data store. The data store system may further include a plurality of processing nodes configured to operate on the data store. The data store system may receive the encrypted password from the application with one of the plurality of processing nodes and may decrypt the encrypted password with the one of the plurality of processing nodes. The data store system may authenticate the decrypted password with the one of the processing nodes and provide the decrypted password to other processing nodes. Each processing node that has the decrypted password may be accessible to the application to operate on the data store. A method and computer-readable medium may also be implemented.

Abstract: Demand Chain Management (DCM) refers to a suite of analytical applications for retail business, that provides retailers with the tools they need for product demand forecasting, planning and replenishment. The reliable development and user-friendly interface of DCM applications ensures improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, improved inventory turns and significant return on investment. The present subject matter provides a self-contained reusable smart cache component for DCM development and interface. The smart cache component gives a DCM developer the ability to automatically have a configurable amount of information temporarily stored in readily available memory on an application server. The information can be retrieved in a high speed fashion without the need for additional calls to the original location of the information.

Abstract: A method of providing enterprise applications with shared access to a data warehouse. A web service request is issued over a data network from a first client enterprise application to a second server enterprise application. A database query is then constructed at the second server enterprise application. It is then determined whether a response to the web service request will include the results of posing the database query against the data warehouse, or the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query. If the response is to include the results of posing then the second server enterprise application poses the query against the data warehouse and issues the results to the first client enterprise application. If the response to the request is to include the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query, then the second server enterprise application provides the database query syntax to the first client enterprise application.

Abstract: Demand Chain Management (DCM) refers to a suite of analytical applications for retail business, that provides retailers with the tools they need for product demand forecasting, planning and replenishment. The reliable development and user-friendly interface of DCM applications ensures improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, improved inventory turns and significant return on investment. The present subject matter provides a self-contained reusable smart cache component for DCM development and interface. The smart cache component gives a DCM developer the ability to automatically have a configurable amount of information temporarily stored in readily available memory on an application server. The information can be retrieved in a high speed fashion without the need for additional calls to the original location of the information.

Abstract: A method of providing enterprise applications with shared access to a data warehouse. A web service request is issued over a data network from a first client enterprise application to a second server enterprise application. A database query is then constructed at the second server enterprise application. It is then determined whether a response to the web service request will include the results of posing the database query against the data warehouse, or the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query. If the response is to include the results of posing then the second server enterprise application poses the query against the data warehouse and issues the results to the first client enterprise application. If the response to the request is to include the SQL syntax necessary to pose the query, then the second server enterprise application provides the database query syntax to the first client enterprise application.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and data stores are provided for managing interactions between applications and a data store. Threaded applications do not directly read from or write to the data store. An extract utility performs an initial query against the data store on behalf of multiple instances of the applications. The query results service the applications from an application queue. The applications produce application data from processing the query results. The application data is streamed to a load queue and streamed out of the load queue for purposes of creating a temporary table. The temporary table is then merged into an application table of the data store, once all instances of the applications finish processing.