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 optimize 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” analysis and predictive modeling to identify potential threats and opportunities
Facilitate accurate, 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 optimized 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 and 7710

The IBM Smart Analytics System 7700 and 7710 are the industry's most complete business-ready analytics solution. Based on IBM Power Systems, these solutions offer a cost-efficient, flexible design, and mission-critical reliability. They are designed as workload-optimized solutions for high-performance analytics to help accelerate delivery of insights for faster, smarter action.

IBM i Business Intelligence

IBM i for Business Intelligence is a packaged solution that is easy to order and easy to implement, a perfect choice for improving your capability to analyze data –turning it into information that can help transform your business. The solution combines the strengths of Power Systems, IBM i, DB2 for i, DB2 Web Query for i, and data transportation software to deliver an integrated platform that houses the extracted and transported data sourced from your production systems.

Cognos Optimized for Power Systems

Leading organizations around the world choose Cognos Business Intelligence software to gain a complete perspective of their business and to understand performance – and drive better business outcomes. IBM Power Systems provide a highly reliable, scalable solution for Cognos applications. With POWER7 architecture and the capabilities of IBM AIX, Power Systems can improve utilization, reduce system footprint, and scale to support large numbers of users.