Smart Analytics Cloud for System z

Highly competitive businesses recognize that information is critical. Having access to the right information at the right time is what enables smart businesses to make the right decisions in a timely fashion. A recent IBM Institute for Business Value study (PDF, 323KB) discovered that one in two business leaders do not have sufficient information from across their organization to do their jobs.

IBM can help.

With the IBM Smart Analytics Cloud, we focus on transforming traditional business intelligence and analytic environments into a self service knowledge dissemination solution for the enterprise. The Smart Analytics Cloud creates a standard private cloud business intelligence solution at the customer site built on mainframe capability. This solution is designed to provide customers business intelligence (BI) services that is powered by a cloud deployment for greater efficiency with less cost and resources to reach a broader audience.

A Smart Analytics Cloud:

Drastically reduces the number of departmental solutions to a single BI environment capable of supporting vast numbers of users across the lines of business.
Introduces a single point of control for meeting departmental business processes, corporate security and compliance standards for easier enforcement of standardization.
More effectively uses skilled BI resources to support a common BI delivery tool which can be made available across the enterprise.
Reduces the capital and operating expenses needed to support enterprise wide BI services.
Supports a self service approach to dispensing BI services that reduces the time, resources and costs for delivering BI services to new divisions, departments and users
Supports critical thinking in the enterprise with BI Compentency Center education