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Power Systems Solutions for Business Intelligence

The need for reliable real-time business intelligence (BI), including analytical applications, is core to every business. These applications have become mission critical to many businesses that rely on turning data into information for effective business decisions, requiring a high performance platform that is available, reliable and secure. A Data Warehouse can provide an infrastructure to support analytical applications such as dashboards, online analytical processing or predictive analytics by providing a data consolidation point that is optimally tuned for the workload.

IBM Power System solutions for Business Intelligence can accelerate deployment of a data warehouse or analytics application, and grow with you in a cost-effective manner while providing a level of performance and reliability that enable timelier and more effective business decisions.

IBM solutions

IBM Smart Analytics System
The IBM Smart Analytics System is a complete, pre-integrated & optimized analytics solution designed to accelerate your ability to quickly deliver insight where and when it’s needed. And it is designed to quickly adjust and grow based on your company’s ever changing business needs, providing clients with both flexibility and simplicity in deployment of business analytics.

The Power 550 Express System running AIX 6.1 with IBM System Storage DS5300 and InfoSphere Warehouse software provides a foundation for the IBM Smart Analytics Systems. This solution is is highly reliable and easily scalable through a modular architecture designed to meet the availability and performance requirements of an analytics workload.

Cognos Optimized for Power Systems (.PDF, 341KB)
IBM Power Systems provides a highly reliable, scalable solution for Cognos applications. With PowerVM™ and the solid reliability of the AIX operating system, Power Systems can improve utilization, reduce footprints, and scale to very large numbers of users whether you are leveraging Cognos in a standalone environment or as part of the IBM Smart Analytics System.

DB2 Web Query for i
For IBM i customers, DB2 Web Query provides a modernized version of the popular Query/400 report writer with extensions into Business Intelligence. Improve performance and reduce maintenance of report definitions while leveraging your IBM i infrastructure with DB2 Web Query.

Partner solutions

Oracle
Achieve high performance and near linear scalability for data warehousing with IBM Power Systems configured for Oracle Optimized Warehouse. Lower software, energy and space costs through performance leadership and system options that can produce a dramatic increase in overall utilization.

SAP (.PDF, 1.88MB)
IBM and SAP, building on a decades-long strategic alliance based on continuous collaboration, innovation and service, are rising to the dual challenges of scalability and usability required by Business Intelligence applications. Together, we are delivering comprehensive BI solutions that combine the powerful functionality of SAP with a robust Power Systems infrastructure platform from IBM.

SAS (.PDF, 301KB)
Offers powerful BI and analytics solutions to deliver accurate insights about data for speedy decision-making. The powerful combination of SAS Enterprise Miner software on IBM Power Systems provides a comprehensive, integrated data mining solution for discovering patterns and trends.

Sybase
IBM and Sybase have been delivering high performance solutions to our clients for more than 20 years and have worked together to provide tested, optimized solutions based on the IBM POWER6™ technology for business intelligence applications for both Enterprise and General Business clients.

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