Business analytics

Right data. Right time. Right decisions.

With the explosive growth of both structured and unstructured data from multiple sources, businesses need to derive faster insights in a secure and reliable manner to stay successful. Yet many are still operating with blind spots. One in three managers frequently make critical decisions without the information they need; one in two don’t have access to the information across their organization needed to do their jobs; and one in three business leaders don’t trust the information they use to make decisions.1 Cost, complexity and risk pose challenges to gaining real time insights from data found within mission critical applications and workloads needed to drive business results. Explore how Power Systems can help your organization gain faster insights and make better business decisions.

Power Systems – optimized for business analytics and mission critical applications and workloads

See how companies meet their challenges to deliver IT efficiency, enable new services with increased workloads, and deliver seamless and exceptional experience with analytics solutions on Power Systems.

Dillard's – department store
Fiserv – financial services technology company
Park Nicollet – health services
Watson on Power for WellPoint - health benefits company

IBM analytics solutions for Power Systems – the engine for faster insights

Unlock the value of data and deliver faster insights with systems optimized for big data and compute intensive analytic applications.

IBM AIX Solution Edition for Analytical Decision Management - Enables faster insights and decision-making to create new business opportunities, increase operational efficiency and drive customer satisfaction with dynamic in-memory technology and hardware optimization.

IBM DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration - Enables faster insights and agility to create new business opportunities, increase operational efficiency and drive customer satisfaction with dynamic in-memory columnar technologies.

IBM AIX Solution Edition for Cognos - Rapid deployment of business intelligence solution to help make decisions that achieve better business outcomes.

IBM AIX Solution Edition for SPSS - Simple-to-deploy predictive analytics solution to uncover hidden insights faster to better understand and anticipate customer needs.

Big Data Solution with InfoSphere BigInsights and Streams - Deliver actionable insights using Apache Hadoop, InfoSphere BigInsights and InfoSphere Streams on PowerLinux servers to analyze structured and unstructured data at massive scale.

IBM i for Business Intelligence - Increase time to value with easy to implement packaged solution to turn information into actionable insights.

IBM DB2 Web Query for i - Helps ensure every decision maker across the organization can easily find, analyze and share the information needed to make better, faster decisions.

IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics - Easily deploy, optimize and manage data intensive workloads for operational analytics with expert integrated system.

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Next generation applications for big data and analytics and cognitive computing are providing unprecedented insights into opportunities, threats and efficiencies. IBM Power Systems is at the forefront of delivering solutions to gain faster insights from analyzing both structured information and unstructured big data. With the secure, flexible and open platform of IBM Power Systems plus solutions and software, organizations can outpace their competitors by delivering faster services, providing differentiated offerings and turning operational cost into investment opportunity.

IBM Power Systems hardware is at the heart of enabling major business and industry transformations fueled by the explosive growth of big data and analytics. Power Systems help organizations drive faster business insights with industry leading performance, scalability and virtualization flexibility.

IBM Power Systems deliver flexibility and choice of operating systems to enable your business to support the next generation applications for big data and analytics and cognitive computing that are transforming how organizations work today. Whether running 1, 2, or all 3 - coupled with PowerVM, they maximize the benefit of Power Systems in your business.

IBM's integrated approach to developing Systems and Systems Software stacks together delivers a platform that supports next generation applications for big data and analytics and cognitive computing on an open platform for choice while providing maximum utilization, availability, and flexibility to help you deliver new advantages to your business.

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions exploit key benefits in IBM Power Systems’ unique design combined with systems software to provide support for next generation applications for big data and analytics and cognitive computing to providing unprecedented insights into opportunities, threats and efficiencies to your organization.


Over the last five years thousands of clients have migrated to IBM Power Systems. Learn how Power Systems has helped them support next generation applications for big data and analytics and cognitive computing on an open platform for choice while improving business performance, reducing risk, and establishing a platform for growth.

Business Analytics Summit 2013

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IBM Power Systems - enabling faster insight

Capitalize on new workloads with systems optimized for big data and analytics

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