DB2 Alphablox

IBM Alphablox software infuses actionable information and analytics into business processes and systems. For example, it enables end users to:

• determine the root cause of trends by diving deeper into data, based on job roles and tasks.

• make changes directly to source databases, without having to access separate applications.

• respond to visual alerts about items that are out of the normal range.

• view intuitive charts to identify trends that would be difficult to see in static tables.

• use bookmarking and export capabilities to share their views of the data.

Speeding deployment, adoption and enhancement of business analytics
Cost effectively integrate analytic capabilities into your existing Web-based applications, using an approach that helps accelerate adoption. Specifically, Alphablox software allows you to:

• optimize usability by customizing functionality and graphical style to end users’ needs.

• view all relevant systems and information via a single, familiar interface.

• go live within four to six weeks using out-of-the-box capabilities that don’t require technical staff to start implementations from scratch.

• find technical support resources easily, because it uses common programming languages.

Additional IBM solutions featuring Alphablox software
InfoSphere Warehouse Enteprise Edition V9.5 software incorporates IBM Alphablox technology to provide a comprehensive BI platform. The solution integrates Alphablox Web-based analytics and reporting capabilities with data mining, online analytical processing (OLAP), and extract, transform and load (ETL) functionality, allowing you to operate on common data structures within the data warehouse.

DB2 Alphablox supports a standard J2EE application development model, offering a complete development paradigm for application delivery. It provides application developers extensive flexibility in customizing the user interface and adding their own business and application logic by exposing every component as a Java bean and allowing programmatic access to those beans through a rich set of Java APIs.

With the DB2 Alphablox tag libraries, JSP coders don't have to know the low-level technical details behind the components; they simply need to know the syntax and function for that respective piece. This enables page authors with no Java experience to incorporate analytics seamlessly on an Intranet or Extranet using best-of-breed authoring tools. Each Blox has a comprehensive set of properties that could be easily set using the tags to custom values in the JSP pages.