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Latest offerings
InfoSphere Warehouse on System z
IBM announces InfoSphere Warehouse on System z, that helps create a highly scalable, highly resilient, lower cost infrastructure to optimize a DB2 for z/OS data warehouse, data mart, or operational data store. This product delivers Data Warehousing capabilities that help you:
- Simplify operational complexity by deploying both operational and warehouse data on the System z platform, thereby reducing costs related to data movement while providing a high level of data compliance and security
- Dramatically improve query performance to save on processing costs and elapsed time through the use of Cubing Services caching for Multidimensional (MDX) query support
- Exploit unique System z advantages, including hardware based data compression, world class workload management, and high availability through data sharing, to deliver a robust infrastructure for your BI workloads
- Define and maintain a warehouse or data mart environment on z/OS with the use of the Design Studio component of InfoSphere Warehouse
SAP Solution Edition for System z
Dare to compare a new competitively priced offering for SAP on System z. This solution delivers new, more competitive pricing with the System z based technology enhancements for SAP, found in System z10‘s enhanced processor speeds and DB2 z/OS advances, that enable new levels of scalability, availability, and flexibility.
Cognos 8 for System z
Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z has recently been enhanced to the latest 8.4 version of the product, with the addition of new features that together deliver a robust, business intelligence environment for enterprise warehousing. This offering includes lineage and federated server capabilities that enable you to gain access to a wide range of information scattered across a number of relational databases and servers within your company.
New addtional products on System z include:
Go!Mobile delivers reports and other BI content to a number of mobile devices, including BlackBerries, Microsoft Windows Mobile, and Symbian S60 platforms. From System z directly to your business, users' handheld devices can access the information they need, wherever they may be.
Go!Dashboards
Go!Dashboards, helps you communicate complex information quickly, by providing richer graphics, capabilities, and more dashboard elements to build with, delivering even greater ease of use for the casual, business and executive user.
Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting for System z (SAFR)
Leverage IBM's highly skilled services team to design a high performance, high volume, data extraction and reporting environment for your System z environment. This quality solution is designed for the z/OS environment, and is capable of leveraging available zIIP capacity. Deliver performance improvements across your organization, without consuming your staff's valuable time. Engage the professionals at IBM to get the job done fast.
Master Data Management for System z
IBM Multiform Master Data Management manages master data domains (customers, accounts, products) that have a significant impact on the most important business processes and realizes the promise of SOA.
Infrastructure Offerings
IBM Rapid Deployment of z/OS and DB2
An IBM STG Lab Services offering that is designed to ease the barriers of moving to the System z platform. It allows you to derive the benefits of a robust, secure, high-availability environment, enabling the quick deployment of OLTP and BI applications to support your business. This offering prepares an operational environment, ready for application installations, data loading and customization. By engaging IBM Lab Services, your staff can focus on the business aspects of your environment. With this offering, you may reduce system installation and customization time from weeks to days.
Information Server for System z
IBM Information Server for System z is a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, and transforms information from mainframe and distributed data sources to drive insight without added z/OS operational costs.
Reporting and query tools
Cognos 8 for System z
Cognos 8 – now available for the System z platform.
DataQuant
DataQuant is a Business Analytics tool, featuring dashboards and data visualization. Free DataQuant trial — download now.
DB2 Alphablox
DB2 Alphablox embeds analytics directly into web-based applications.
Business Partner offerings
Information Builders: WebFOCUS
WebFOCUS is a comprehensive, business intelligence solution that delivers information to all levels of an organization. It makes data available, accessible and meaningful – when and how it is needed.
SAS Fraud Management
SAS Fraud Management is designed to fight fraud with sophisticated analytic intelligence and complete integration with the latest antifraud measures.
SAS Enterprise Miner
SAS Enterprise Miner is designed to streamline the entire data-mining process from data access to model assessment to help extract actionable insights to gain a competitive advantage
SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (eBI)
includes data integration, intelligence storage, business intelligence and analytics software with the IBM System z mainframe. In addition, the introduction of sub-capacity pricing - a pricing structure that reflects the industry movement towards server consolidation - provides SAS mainframe customers with a cost-effective way of adding new workloads and new applications to the System z platform.
Industry Solutions
Supplier Parts Quality:
Industrial Sector Business Intelligence offering
With companies outsourcing their manufacturing to strategic partners across the globe, automotive supply chains have become very complex. Many manufacturers have streamlined their supply chains and implemented lean inventory techniques. Understanding the quality of the parts that are used in the manufacturing process, enables manufacturers to control their warranty costs, through the supplier parts quality management solution from IBM.
Databases
DB2 Version 9.1 for z/OS
DB2 Version 9 extends traditional DB2 strengths in many areas, like online schema evolution, Unicode, XML, DB2 family SQL, utilities, security, compliance, and 64-bit virtual storage.
DB2 Enterprise 9 for Linux
DB2 data server easily scales to handle high-volume transaction processing, multi-terabyte data warehouses, and mission critical applications.
DB2 for z/OS Version 8
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 offers key improvements that enhance scalability, application portability, security, architecture, and continuous availability.
Oracle for System z
Oracle applications leverage System z platforms to drive a secure, economical, and energy-efficient platform for their solutions. Whether on z/OS or zLinux, Oracle solutions can work for you.
Utilities and tools
DB2 and IMS Tools
DB2 and IMS tools are specifically designed to enhance the performance of DB2 and IMS, placing affordable database power tools at your fingertips.
Downloadable Features for DB2
Visit the optimization service center for DB2 and z/OS and more.
DB2 Query Management Facility for z/OS
DB2 QMF is a tightly integrated, powerful, and reliable query and reporting toolset for the IBM DB2 relational database management system.
DB2 Data Archive Expert for z/OS
This product has been withdrawn from marketing as of June 11, 2008. The following link provides information on new product plans.
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) products
(See Master Data Management and Information Server — listed above)
Also:
WebSphere DataStage for z/OS
WebSphere DataStage for z/OS takes ETL performance to a new level with powerful data integration and transformation.
WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS
WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS replicates data between DB2 for z/OS and other databases for high availability.
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