ElasticDW: Managed Columnar Analytics Platform (Heritage)

ElasticDW was a managed columnar analytics platform developed at Full 360. It was acquired by Micro Focus as part of the Full 360 acquisition. The platform focused on predictable performance, straightforward operations, and measurable total cost of ownership for enterprise analytics workloads.

The Challenge

Organizations needed fast, reliable analytics without the overhead of managing complex data warehouse stacks. Legacy estates mixed appliances, proprietary SQL, and brittle pipelines—raising costs and slowing delivery.

The Solution

ElasticDW standardized a cloud‑first, managed columnar warehouse foundation with:

• Right‑sized clusters and workload management for predictable performance
• Migration runbooks and near‑zero‑downtime cutovers
• Governed ingest (batch/stream) with resilient loaders
• Observability, cost controls, and backup/DR baked in

Outcomes

• Reduced license and infrastructure costs via cloud‑native design
• Faster delivery with automated pipelines and clear SLOs
• Improved transparency: monitoring, lineage hints, and repeatable operations

Legacy → Evolution

The lessons from ElasticDW informed our current platform strategy:

• From data platforms to knowledge platforms
• From data warehouses to knowledge retrieval with lineage and governance
• From managed clusters to agent‑safe retrieval and orchestration

Today, OmniArcs builds on that foundation with:

• IKE — Knowledge Twins (AI personas) for research, reasoning, and workflow orchestration
• Locus — the control plane for knowledge: search, retrieval, lineage, and access controls powering agents

If you’re modernizing analytics or planning AI‑driven knowledge work, we can map a path from heritage systems to traceable, governed AI.