IBM® InfoSphere Warehouse is a complete, off-the-shelf data warehousing solution that gives you everything you need to cost effectively implement a flexible, scalable data warehouse for dynamic warehousing.
Fully integrated with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Starter Edition — a condensed edition of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence — it's an ideal solution for companies that want to consolidate data marts, information silos, and business analytics to deliver a single version of the truth to all users, within context and in real time.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Starter Edition
IBM Cognos BI Starter Edition gives you a foundation for business queries and reporting. From this foundation, you can expand to the full platform as your enterprise requirements and user demands grow.
IBM Cognos BI Starter Edition includes the following:
- Query for ad hoc questions.
- Reporting to format and deliver data in reports and dashboards.
- Multidimensional analysis for analyzing large volumes of data through ranking, complex filtering, slicing, dicing and creating custom subsets (used mostly by business users).
- Tracking and monitoring through automatically triggered events such as email and report generation or communication with other software.
- Framework Manager for data access, modeling, and publishing information for users.
- Data access for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, DB2 for z/OS, Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), and InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services.
- Cognos BI sample data for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS).
Conditions
As a "try-it-first" offer, IBM Cognos BI Starter Edition provides the following:
- One Cognos BI administrator and up to five named users.
- Single machine install only, up to two CPUs (for the IBM Cognos server).
- Microsoft® Windows operating system only (for the IBM Cognos server).
Benefits
You can build on this foundation by upgrading to the full IBM Cognos BI platform.
- Start viewing your warehouse data immediately by easily creating ad-hoc queries, reports, and analysis
- Try out BI, using your own data, risk-free: IBM Cognos BI Starter Edition can be downloaded free
- Build for the future: all development work is easily brought over to a Cognos BI upgrade
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