Business intelligence

IBM System p™ offerings are excellent platforms for Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. Clients use BI to perform market trend analysis, optimize demand planning and inventory forecasting, and create predictive tactics to assist in development of the right products, marketed properly to the right customers. This can result in significant inventory cost savings and revenue enhancement. System p server leadership performance and high I/O throughput enables data warehouses to be rapidly built and complex queries to be responsively executed. The scalable, fully compatible System p5™ family of servers complemented by the comprehensive line of scalable, flexible IBM System Storage™ products can economically host data from the smallest Data Mart to the largest Data Warehouse.

Highlights

Deploy Business Intelligence solutions on a System p5 server complemented by System Storage offerings and get the ability to . . .

Build the Data Warehouse and respond to queries quickly because of high processor performance and I/O throughput
Build fully compatible warehouses and marts of different sizes, taking advantage of System p5 server scalability and compatibility
Create a cost-effective BI system when taking advantage of the price/performance of System p5 and System Storage solutions

Featured solution

IBM System p for Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (217 KB)
The advantages of the IBM System p platform, coupled with its Advanced POWER Virtualization features, optional on some models, provide the best hardware choice for clients choosing to run Oracle Business Intelligence solutions.

Solutions

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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence for AIX 5L on IBM POWER processor-based systems (230 KB)
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IBM System p 570 and System Storage DS4800 Oracle Optimized Warehouse (278 KB)
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IBM System p for Oracle Data Warehousing™ Solution
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IBM System p Solution Edition for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
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Kenan FX for AIX 5L on IBM POWER processor-based systems (181 KB)
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Sybase IQ for IBM Power Systems Solution
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