IBM Business Analytics on System z provides a single platform for Business Analytics that helps lower the cost of your Business Analytics infrastructure with the following:
Industry-leading Business Analytics
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 for Linux on System z helps your organization make smarter decisions, achieve better results, and gain a deeper understanding of trends, opportunities, weaknesses and threats. Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 lets you explore any data, in any combination and over any time period with a broad range of analytics capabilities:
- Query & Reporting: Use comprehensive query and reporting capabilities to make smarter decisions.
- Analysis: Drive better, smarter business decisions with wide-ranging analysis capabilities.
- Dashboarding: Monitor, measure and manage corporate performance at a glance.
- Real-time Monitoring: View up-to-the second relevant information in context with your BI information.
- Extending BI: Reach more users with business intelligence.
SPSS Modeler for Linux on System z: predictive models (link resides outside ibm.com) for determining the best possible actions
- Techniques for extracting patterns and relationships from datasets.
- Integrated with IBM Cognos 8 BI, provides easily understandable reports in a variety of styles, complete with graphs, charts and tables.
SPSS Statistics for Linux on System z: advanced statistics and data management
- Validate assumptions faster.
- Receive guidance on when to use different statistical capabilities.
- Take data from almost any type of file and use it to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and complex statistical analyses.
SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services for Linux on System z: a platform for the management and deployment of analytical assets
- Secure, browser-based access to results.
- Centralized analytical repository, managed analytic processes, web services interfaces for integration, automated versioning and change management.
Flexible infrastructure option make transition from business data to business knowledge
Data warehousing and Business Analytics form a powerful and highly complementary combination that helps you set your business apart from the competition. While Business Analytics applications make it possible for you to gain true value from your business information, data warehouses format the data to optimize business analytics. A single vendor supplying data warehousing and business analytics capabilities gives you greater integration, optimization, efficiency, and cost control for these capabilities.
- IBM DB2 for z/OS: Database platform for reducing costs and complexity, simplifying compliance and ensuring continuous availability for supporting a global data warehousing and BI infrastructure.
- InfoSphere Warehouse for Linux on System z: Highly scalable, highly resilient, lower cost way to design, populate and optimize a DB2 for z/OS data warehouse for Business Analytics applications such as Cognos 8 BI.
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Linux on System z: Fully integrated software platform with common metadata that profiles, cleanses, transforms and delivers information from System z and distributed data sources.
- IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer: High performance, integrated hardware/software accelerator for IBM System z delivering dramatically faster analytic query responses transparently to all users.
- IBM Tivoli: A complete portfolio — from data and applications to transactions, subsystems and network performance — of the system management capabilities required to identify and react quickly, often proactively, to unanticipated events before they affect system performance.
Built on a scalable, secure, reliable, simplified and cost-efficient infrastructure
Built on a scalable, secure, reliable, simplified and cost-efficient infrastructure
IBM System z is the ideal platform for meeting your Business Analytics needs of today while minimizing the costs of Business Analytics tomorrow. The server platform allows you to implement a single Business Analytics standard while providing Business Analytics as a service to your organization, for better corporate compliance and greater optimization.
Provide all decision-makers with complete, consistent, timely and relevant information
- Easily scale to meet the needs of every decision-maker, from executives and line-of-business managers, financial and business analysts, to front line managers, partners and customers.
- Offer a complete portfolio of business analytics on a single platform to meet business needs.
- Provide a more complete view of the business with greater access to real-time data.
Increase user satisfaction and ROI
- Obtain guaranteed system performance and availability (an enterprise SLA).
- Provide faster time to value for the business.
- Enable business units to shift their focus from administrative tasks to decision-making.
Reduce the cost and complexity of providing Business Analytics to your organization
- Centralize resources and reduce the hardware, software and facilities (power, floor space, etc.) required to manage and maintain the Business Analytics infrastructure. Significantly reduce the costs associated with Business Analytics system administration and facilities by upwards of 50% over 5 years.
- Realize greater economies of scale, enabling IT to deliver BI to a broader audience at a reduced cost.
- Make the high availability of your Business Analytics infrastructure a viable option for IT.
Make Business Analytics deployment easier
- Deploy in days/weeks on System z instead of months.
- Reduce the time, resources and cost of delivering BI to new divisions, departments and users.
- Automate and facilitate self-service provisioning.
- Eliminate the cost-related barriers to introducing BI to new divisions/departments.
Simplify enforcement of corporate regulations and standards
- Ensure corporate security policies are followed.
- Ensure disaster recovery plans are in place.
- Maintain control over business processes.
Flexible deployment options
In addition to being highly scalable, IBM Business Analytics on System z provides a variety of deployment options that organizations can choose from depending on their individual requirements.
- IBM Smart Analytics System 9600: Smart Analytics System 9600 is a pre-integrated, optimized hardware and software solution that ensures quick implementation and a fast time to value. As a workload optimized system for business analytics, it leverages the strengths of the System z platform to provide fast, accurate business information with fewer resources and at lower total cost.
- IBM Smart Analytics Cloud: The IBM Smart Analytics Cloud reduces the cost and complexity of delivering Business Analytics across the enterprise by relying on a standard set of tools on a single platform. It enables organizations to deliver Business Analytics as a service to the entire organization quickly and efficiently.
- IBM Professional Services and Education: As your technology and business partner, IBM Professional Services and Education provide the skills and resources you need to get up and running quickly and achieve a successful implementation of your Data Warehouse and Business Analytics solution.
