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InfoSphere Warehouse: A Robust Infrastructure for Business Intelligence

Author : Chuck Ballard

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 636 pages

File Size : 33,69 MB

Release : 2010-06-22

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738434329

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Book Description

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication we describe and demonstrate Version 9.7 of IBM InfoSphereTM Warehouse. InfoSphere Warehouse is a comprehensive platform with all the functionality required for developing robust infrastructure for business intelligence solutions. It enables companies to access and analyze operational and historical information, whether structured or unstructured, to gain business insight for improved decision making. InfoSphere Warehouse solutions simplify the processes of developing and maintaining a data warehousing infrastructure and can significantly enhance the time to value for business analytics. The InfoSphere Warehouse platform provides a fully integrated environment built around IBM DB2® 9.7 server technology on Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms, as well as System z®. Common user interfaces support application development, data modeling and mapping, SQL transformation, online application processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality from virtually all types of information. Composed of a component-based architecture, it extends the DB2 data warehouse with design-side tooling and runtime infrastructure for OLAP, data mining, inLine analytics and intra-warehouse data movement and transformation, on a common platform.



Virtualized Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse

Author : Adriana Carvajal

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 10,70 MB

Release : 2012-10-05

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738437417

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With the benefit of advanced analytics such as online analytical processing (OLAP), data mining, and text analytics, the IBM® InfoSphere® Warehouse Enterprise Edition brings sophisticated business intelligence (BI) to warehouse users. InfoSphere Warehouse allows you to run extreme concurrent query volumes that can help answer questions for all types of business users, while consistently meeting service level requirements. Combined with a virtualization platform and a solid BI solution, such as IBM Cognos®, you can deliver BI cloud services with improved flexibility and speed to your clients, thereby presenting a new avenue for which your services can be offered. This IBM Redbooks® publication discusses the deployment of a BI cloud solution. It includes details such as understanding the architecture of a cloud, planning implementation, integrating various software components, and understanding the preferred practices of running a cloud deployment. Essentially, this book can be used as a guide by anyone who is interested in deploying a virtualized environment for a BI cloud solution.



Solving Operational Business Intelligence with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Edition

Author : Whei-Jen Chen

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 506 pages

File Size : 48,37 MB

Release : 2012-10-02

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738437255

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IBM® InfoSphere® Warehouse is the IBM flagship data warehouse platform for departmental data marts and enterprise data warehouses. It offers leading architecture, performance, backup, and recovery tools that help improve efficiency and reduce time to market through increased understanding of current data assets, while simplifying the daily operations of managing complex warehouse deployments. InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise Edition delivers an enhanced set of database performance, management, and design tools. These tools assist companies in maintaining and increasing value from their warehouses, while helping to reduce the total cost of maintaining these complex environments. In this IBM Redbooks® publication we explain how you can build a business intelligence system with InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise to manage and support daily business operations for an enterprise, to generate more income with lower cost. We describe the foundation of the business analytics, the Data Warehouse features and functions, and the solutions that can deliver immediate analytics solutions and help you drive better business outcomes. We show you how to use the advanced analytics of InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise Edition and integrated tools for data modeling, mining, text analytics, and identifying and meeting the data latency requirements. We describe how the performance and storage optimization features can make building and managing a large data warehouse more affordable, and how they can help significantly reduce the cost of ownership. We also cover data lifecycle management and the key features of IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence. This book is intended for data warehouse professionals who are interested in gaining in-depth knowledge about the operational business intelligence solution for a data warehouse that the IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise Edition offers.



InfoSphere Warehouse: Cubing Services and Client Access Interfaces

Author : Chuck Ballard

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 446 pages

File Size : 45,89 MB

Release : 2008-12-16

Category : Computers

ISBN : 073843194X

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Formerly known as DB2® Warehouse, InfoSphereTM Warehouse enables a unified, powerful data warehousing environment. It provides access to structured and unstructured data, as well as operational and transactional data. In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide a brief overview of InfoSphere Warehouse, but the primary objective is to discuss and describe the capabilities of one particular component of the InfoSphere Warehouse, which is InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services. InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services is designed to provide a multidimensional view of data stored in relational databases, for significantly improved query and analysis capabilities. For this, there are particular schema designs that are typically used for these data warehouse and data mart databases, called dimensional, or cube, models. Optimization techniques are used to dramatically improve the performance of the OLAP queries, which are a core component of data warehousing and analytics. InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services works with business intelligence (BI) tools, and clients, such as Cognos® , Alphablox, and Microsoft® Excel® , through client interfaces, to accelerate OLAP queries from many data sources. We describe these interfaces and provide examples of how to use them to improve the performance of your OLAP queries.



Multidimensional Analytics: Delivered with InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services

Author : Chuck Ballard

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 45,81 MB

Release : 2009-04-27

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738432628

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In this IBM Redbooks publication, we discuss and describe a multidimensional data warehousing infrastructure that can enable solutions for complex problems in an efficient and effective manner. The focus of this infrastructure is the InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services Feature. With this feature, DB2 becomes the data store for large volumes of data that you can use to perform multidimensional analysis, which enables viewing complex problems from multiple perspectives, which provides more information for management business decision making. This feature supports analytic tool interfaces from powerful data analysis tools, such as Cognos 8 BI, Microsoft Excel, and Alphablox. This is a significant capability that supports and enhances the analytics that clients use as they work to resolve problems with an ever growing scope, dimension, and complexity. Analyzing problems by performing more detailed queries on the data and viewing the results from multiple perspectives yields significantly more information and insight. Building multidimensional cubes based on underlying DB2 relational tables, without having to move or replicate the data, enables significantly more powerful data analysis with less work and leads to faster problem resolution with the capability for more informed management decision making. This capability is known as No Copy Analytics and is made possible with InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services.



Getting Started with the IBM Smart Analytics System 9600

Author : Lydia Parziale

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 15,12 MB

Release : 2011-04-12

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738435651

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Book Description

The IBM® Smart Analytics System 9600 is a single, end-to-end business analytics solution to accelerate data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives. It provides integrated hardware, software, and services that enable enterprise customers to quickly and cost-effectively deploy business-changing analytics across their organizations. As a workload-optimized system for business analytics, it leverages the strengths of the System z® platform to drive: Significant savings in hardware, software, operating, and people costs to deliver a complete range of data warehouse and BI capabilities Faster time to value with a reduction in the time and speed associated with deploying Business Intelligence Industry-leading scalability, reliability, availability, and security Simplified and faster access to the data on System z



Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Author : Raghunath Nambiar

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 278 pages

File Size : 20,45 MB

Release : 2009-11-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3642104231

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Book Description

This book constitutes the reviewed proceedings of the first Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking, TPCTC 2009, held in Lyon, France, August 24-28,2009. The 16 full papers and two keynote papers were carefully selected from 34 submissions. This book considers issues such as appliance, business intelligence, cloud computing, complex event processing, database performance optimizations, green computing, data compression, disaster tolerance and recovery, energy and space efficiency, hardware innovations, high speed data generation, hybrid workloads or operational data warehousing, unstructured data management, software management and maintenance, virtualization and very large memory systems



Addressing Data Volume, Velocity, and Variety with IBM InfoSphere Streams V3.0

Author : Mike Ebbers

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 12,63 MB

Release : 2013-03-12

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738437808

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There are multiple uses for big data in every industry—from analyzing larger volumes of data than was previously possible to driving more precise answers, to analyzing data at rest and data in motion to capture opportunities that were previously lost. A big data platform will enable your organization to tackle complex problems that previously could not be solved using traditional infrastructure. As the amount of data available to enterprises and other organizations dramatically increases, more and more companies are looking to turn this data into actionable information and intelligence in real time. Addressing these requirements requires applications that are able to analyze potentially enormous volumes and varieties of continuous data streams to provide decision makers with critical information almost instantaneously. IBM® InfoSphere® Streams provides a development platform and runtime environment where you can develop applications that ingest, filter, analyze, and correlate potentially massive volumes of continuous data streams based on defined, proven, and analytical rules that alert you to take appropriate action, all within an appropriate time frame for your organization. This IBM Redbooks® publication is written for decision-makers, consultants, IT architects, and IT professionals who will be implementing a solution with IBM InfoSphere Streams.



IBM Midmarket Software Buying and Selling Guide

Author : LindaMay Patterson

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 49,32 MB

Release : 2010-07-12

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738450073

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Book Description

The IBM® Midmarket Software Buying and Selling Guide is tailored specifically to help the management and IT staff of small and midsized businesses evaluate how the IBM midmarket portfolio can provide simple and cost-effective solutions to common business problems. Along with a midmarket customer focus, this IBM RedpaperTM publication is designed to help IBM teams and Business Partners be more effective in serving small and midsized businesses. We illustrate how IBM software for the midmarket can help businesses use the Web to reduce expenses, improve customer service, and expand into new markets. We cover the IBM software offering for the midmarket, which includes what the software does, the platforms it runs on, where to find more information, and how it can help your business become more profitable: - IBM Business Partners often keep a printed copy of this guide in their briefcases for software references - Customers can view this guide online and look up software-value messages and IBM product family offering comparisons - IBM Sales Representatives can print parts of this guide as "leave-behinds" for customers, to give them extra collateral on midmarket software of interest To make sure that you have the latest version of this guide, download it from this web address: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3975.html?Open



IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise and Data Integration

Author : Amtul Aziz

Publisher : IBM Redbooks

Page : 110 pages

File Size : 23,36 MB

Release : 2011-06-10

Category : Computers

ISBN : 0738450472

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Book Description

IBM® ILOG® ODM Enterprise is a platform to implement and deploy corporate custom solutions for optimization-based planning and scheduling. Developing a realistic plan or schedule that provides the best possible balance between customer service and revenue goals is hard work. With ILOG ODM Enterprise, business leaders can make better decisions through what-if analysis, scenario management, and collaboration. This IBM RedpaperTM publication showcases the optimization scenario of the Supply Demand application for ILOG ODM Enterprise. This scenario highlights the product features. It includes suggested practices for using IBM Cognos® and InfoSphereTM offerings to extract data and build reports with ILOG ODM Enterprise driving the import and export of data. The target audience for this paper is IT specialists and IT architects who implement ILOG ODM Enterprise solutions and decision makers such as IT managers.