Mainframe data management
Why IBM for mainframe data management
As infrastructure complexity increases, data reliability is at greater risk - and the additional effort required to validate and manage information across diverse systems results in more maintenance and higher costs.
Today’s most competitive companies are leveraging the high performance of the mainframe to improve data integrity, management and efficiency. With Information Management (IM) solutions on System z, they’re transforming information into a powerful strategic asset to fuel business intelligence and reduce costs.
Trusted information, fast. With its unrivaled processing power, System z boosts the quality and speed of reporting and analysis. You get the benefits of real-time reporting and a more reliable foundation for analysis and decision-making.
Infrastructure-wide integration. System z is uniquely equipped to help you consolidate, synchronise, and distribute data across disparate databases and assets. This capability empowers you to meet emerging business demands with reliable, actionable information, in less time.
Reduced costs. By consolidating applications and data on System z, companies have simplified the environment, improved utilisation - and saved millions of dollars. With your resources centralised and integrated on the mainframe, you can save the costs of additional infrastructure and staffing. And any incremental workload is far more cost-effective.
What we offer
Mainframe data management products
- DB2 for z/OS (US)
- Information Management System (US)
- Data Warehousing (US)
- Information Governance (US)
Mainframe data management solutions
- System z Solution Edition for Data Warehousing (US)
- System z Solution Edition for Cloud computing (US)
Featured Demo – Delivering on the promise of Business Analytics and Data Warehousing (US)
Maintaining a competitive edge means extracting the full value of all the information at your disposal to yield reliable insights and drive smarter decision making. To achieve this, many organisations are re-evaluating their current business analytics and data warehousing strategy to identify and remove the barriers that isolate their information and impede their success.
IBM can help, starting with your most critical priorities from data accuracy and currency to security, availability, cost and complexity. We can help you quickly realise immediate business value, and then position your business analytics and data warehousing strategy to grow and evolve as your business and the market demands.
IBM System z is the ideal platform for business analytics and data warehousing. Its breakthrough technologies provide the power and performance to meet the demands of ever-changing and challenging market dynamics—enabling you to more easily deliver against today's aggressive business requirements, drive competitive advantage and increase business performance.
Whitepapers
- Data Warehousing: Deliver accurate business information fast with fewer resources and less expense (704KB)
- Reduce costs with improved performance with DB2 10 for z/OS (162KB)
- Information protection solutions with IBM System z (946KB)
- Redpaper: Deploying a Cloud on System z (1.28MB)
- Why is DB2 for z/OS better than Oracle RAC? (989KB)
- Reducing business risk with information governance (429KB)
Analyst Research
- BeyeNetwork research paper: IBM Information Governance 2010 market report (309KB)
- IDC paper on The Proven Power and Flexibility of IMS from IBM (157KB)
Case Studies
- Numius speeds up performance more than 100-fold with IBM Cognos on System z solution (US)
- IBM Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z: 30,000 users in production in just four months (1.05MB)
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