Here are some links discussing the topic:Cerner selected the HP Vertica Analytics Platform to displace a legacy data warehousing solution that was reaching the upper limits of its analytics capacity. Cerner experienced almost a 100-fold increase in data analytics.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cerner ... 2013-08-26
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cerner-ch ... 00766.html
http://news.morningstar.com/all/market- ... ssing.aspx