IBM Power Server Analytics

IBM Power Business Analytics Solutions

Simply managing your information is no longer enough. You need to pull together data from many sources in real time. You need to be able to uncover insights in your data to help you make decisions now – decisions that can help optimise your business. IBM business analytics solutions can help you better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes by helping you to:

• Spot trends and anomalies in your business data
• Conduct deep trend analyses
• Perform “what if” analyses and predictive modelling to identify potential threats and opportunities
• Facilitate accurate and timely financial and regulatory reporting
• Provide greater visibility into operational, financial and market risk

IBM Power Systems provide an extraordinary foundation for your business analytics solutions with:

• Software and hardware that is optimised to take advantage of POWER7 performance capabilities and deliver higher quality services
• Industry leading transaction processing speed – the power you need to process your critical data
• Extraordinary throughput capacity – to support the applications that supply your business data and enable you to respond more quickly
• Integrated management of systems, storage, software and networking to reduce the effort it takes to maintain your systems and improve your IT economics

• IBM Smart Analytics System 7700: Harnessing the power of business analytics (1299KB)

  Last updated, March 2011
  This white paper describes the architecture and features of the IBM Smart Analytics System 7700, an advanced analytics solution that provides server and storage hardware, networking, data warehousing and advanced business analytics software in a single, ready-to-use appliance.

• Clabby: Workload-Optimised Systems For Superior Business Value (518KB)

  Last updated, February 2011
  In this advisory, IT Market Strategies and Clabby Analytics show how making the right server choices can help an enterprise match computing architecture to the needs of their applications and workloads to realise greater ROI and greater business value.

• Bloor: IBM Smart Analytics Systems vs Oracle Exadata X2-2 (350KB)

  Last updated, December 2010
  Compares data warehousing systems (IBM Smart Analytics System vs Oracle Exadata 2-2) to decide best approach: Oracle one-size-fits-all or IBM workload optimisation. Conclusion: "IBM Smart Analytics System out-competes Oracle Exadata in almost every area we examined."

• Server Consolidation for SAP ERP with IBM Power Systems Servers (127KB)

  Last updated, April 2010
  The paper examines in detail the financial case this organisation put together for the decision to move forward with the server migration project with a specific focus on SAP ERP.

• IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing Performance (845KB)

  Last updated, June 2011
  IBM Power Virtualisation Manager (IBM PowerVM) Active Memory (AMS) technology takes PowerVM virtualisation to a new level of consolidation and virtualisation by optimising memory utilisation. AMS intelligently shares memory by dynamically moving it from one partition to another on demand.

• IBM Smart Analytics System (409KB)

  Last updated, August 2011
  Today’s IT infrastructures must evolve to cope with the exploding volume of information and the increasing velocity of business. Through smart use of analytics, organizations can discover insights buried in their enterprise data, predict outcomes by consolidating systems to get an integrated view of the business and act fast with real-time insight into customer preferences.