InfoSphere Warehouse Departmental Edition

A high-performance, reliable and scalable platform

• Provides all the performance benefits of IBM DB2 Enterprise Server, which has high key performance benchmarks for transaction and analytical processing.
• Capable of processing data spread across multiple parallel servers for virtually unlimited scalability.
• Includes IBM Optim Performance Manager, which enables you to identify, diagnose, solve and prevent performance problems.
• Features the InfoSphere Warehouse Workload Manager, which allows you to prioritize queries coming from different users and applications, and control the number of resources dedicated to those processes.

Autonomic features

• Helps lower the cost of managing data in your warehouse by automating administrative and maintenance tasks including database backups.
• Transparently compresses data on disk to decrease disk space and storage infrastructure requirements, and improve query performance.
• Includes compression capabilities that can reduce storage needs up to 80 percent, resulting in substantial cost savings.

Embedded analytical tools

• The cubing services feature supports Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) within the data warehouse, which gives you direct access to current information for faster business decisions.
• The text analytics feature allows you to analyze unstructured data, such as call center logs and emails, and organizes the data into a structure that lends itself to analysis and insight.
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software is included for reporting and allows you to perform complex analysis tasks quickly.

Simplified deployment

• Bypass tedious install and set-up activities, make resources available, and speed time to value.
• Use the virtual image capability on any Intel or AMD-based platform for fast deployments.

A simplified pricing structure

• A simple, terabyte-based pricing structure allows you to pay only for the compressed user data you analyze.
• As your data volumes grow, you can purchase additional warehousing capacity on a just-in-time basis.