Autonomics
"We are very pleased to support DB2 9.7 which includes enhancements to compression, autonomics and workload management that will provide users with additional cost saving benefits. The availability of DB2 9.7 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from Novell allows customers to utilize a high performing, low cost database in conjunction with our highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system."
- Michael Applebaum, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell
"DB2 Express-C is a great fit for many users of Ubuntu Server Edition. Ubuntu users demand a highly available, high performance environment with strong backup support, which is exactly what DB2 Express-C provides. In addition, enhancements to autonomics, Deep Compression and pureXML provide our customers with a superior database that lowers total cost of ownership."
- Peter Woodward, Key Partner Manager, IBM Alliance, Canonical
Compression
"The compression features in DB2 9.7 really cut overall database cost!"
- Marc Hebert, COO, Estuate
"DB2 Express-C is a great fit for many users of Ubuntu Server Edition. Ubuntu users demand a highly available, high performance environment with strong backup support, which is exactly what DB2 Express-C provides. In addition, enhancements to autonomics, Deep Compression and pureXML provide our customers with a superior database that lowers total cost of ownership."
- Peter Woodward, Key Partner Manager, IBM Alliance, Canonical
"DB2 already offers compression rates of up to 83%, translating into a storage savings of up to 50 percent. With the release of DB2 Cobra, IBM intends to develop technology that will compress indexes, log files, temporary tables, XML data and large objects. The new capabilities should translate into very significant storage savings for our customers."
- Ellen Hughes, President, Receptor Software, LLC
"DB2 9.7 completes the existing efficient compression technology with a very flexible index compression functionality. This is a big step for cost savings because disk space is still a problem for many customers and in many projects. In addition, DB2 9.7 also offers extensive new features that allow for more flexible handling with simplified administration."
- Michael Tiefenbacher, Branch Manager Munich and Data Management Specialist, LIS.TEC GmbH - the High Value ISV Distributor
"We are very pleased to support DB2 9.7 which includes enhancements to compression, autonomics and workload management that will provide users with additional cost saving benefits. The availability of DB2 9.7 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from Novell allows customers to utilize a high performing, low cost database in conjunction with our highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system."
- Michael Applebaum, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell
"As a DB2 early access program participant, Estuate has had the opportunity to work with the latest DB2 technology in development. The world-class functionality in the latest DB2 release enables unprecedented interoperability with applications written for other databases, and we are pleased to be an IBM DB2 migration partner. These migration features, along with the improved capabilities of pureXML and Deep Compression, provide very tangible benefits to our clients that are vital in today's economy."
- Marc Herbert, Chief Operating Officer, Estuate
"IBM and SAP have a long history of working closely together to help our mutual clients reduce the costs of running complex business systems. IBM DB2 9.7 is optimized for our recently announced SAP Business Suite 7, which means our clients can take advantage of both the latest SAP capabilities and DB2 enhancements to further lower operational costs - such as storage and server expenses - using the latest DB2 9.7 data compression and performance management capabilities."
- Mike Ellis, VP, SAP
"Data warehouses are exposed to exponentially increasing volumes of data. This directly relates to a massive increase in necessary administration and IT equipment and a decline in system response time. DB2 9.7 and its outstanding compression feature gives data warehouse projects the ability to reduce disk space, optimize I/O transfers and drastically increase response times. Furthermore, it allows our customers to reduce their administration and hardware costs by up to 30 percent"
- Ursula Flade-Ruf, CEO, mip Management Informationspartner GmbH
Data Warehousing
"Data warehouses are exposed to exponentially increasing volumes of data. This directly relates to a massive increase in necessary administration and IT equipment and a decline in system response time. DB2 9.7 and its outstanding compression feature gives data warehouse projects the ability to reduce disk space, optimize I/O transfers and drastically increase response times. Furthermore, it allows our customers to reduce their administration and hardware costs by up to 30 percent"
- Ursula Flade-Ruf, CEO, mip Management Informationspartner GmbH
DB2 Express-C
“DB2 Express-C is a great fit for many users of Ubuntu Server Edition. Ubuntu users demand a highly available, high performance environment with strong backup support, which is exactly what DB2 Express-C provides. In addition, enhancements to autonomics, Deep Compression and pureXML provide our customers with a superior database that lowers total cost of ownership."
-Peter Woodward, Key Partner Manager, IBM Alliance, Canonical
Ease of Software Development & Migration
"Participating in the closed IBM DB2 9.7 beta allowed us a much closer look at DB2 than was possible in the past because many of our Investment Banking clients used other vendor databases. However we can see many opportunities for DB2 to replace the other vendors in this space. We started with a singular view of DB2 and its well-earned reputation in the mainframe world, and now we believe DB2 can support fast moving Front Office Trading environments as well as, if not better than, Oracle, MS SQL Server or Sybase."
- Brett Annandale, CEO, AnnanTech
"We were impressed with the level of support received from IBM as its ISV partner - we did not have to talk to an automated helpline once! And it was great working with people who really know their subject area"
- Brett Annandale, CEO, AnnanTech
"This is a paradigm shift in the very concept of database migration!"
- Godson Retna, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions
"The portability and availability features have been greatly improved and are the most brilliant features from the labs.”
- Jean-Marc Blaise, Technical Architect, Venedim
"These features drastically reduce the time required for migration efforts and significantly lower overall costs."
- Axel Puerner, Managing Consultant, Puerner Unternehmensberatung
"The technology tested in the DB2 Early Access Program is extremely solid. We experienced very few problems, which helped streamline our testing of new database features. Additionally, the supporting documentation for the early access program was both accurate and complete, which made getting the database up and running a quick and painless process."
- Jesse Davis Program Manager for DataDirect
"As a DB2 early access program participant, Estuate has had the opportunity to work with the latest DB2 technology in development. The world-class functionality in the latest DB2 release enables unprecedented interoperability with applications written for other databases, and we are pleased to be an IBM DB2 migration partner. These migration features, along with the improved capabilities of pureXML and Deep Compression, provide very tangible benefits to our clients that are vital in today's economy."
- Marc Herbert, Chief Operating Officer, Estuate
"DB2 9.7 greatly simplifies application porting"
- Nazira Virani, Director of Business Development, Estuate Canada
"DB2 9.7 offers virtually hands-free administration out-of-the-box!"
- Nazira Virani, Director of Business Development, Estuate Canada
"We are very excited to have been selected as a technology partner by IBM. IBM ported our application to the latest release of DB2 with minimal effort and no involvement from our side. With no additional effort required, more than 97 percent of all PL/SQL statements were supported by DB2! This is not only a great testimonial for how well technology that IBM has developed works, but also speaks to the power of open source and the open collaborative spirit that technology enables across very different companies."
- Paolo Juvara, CTO, Openbravo
"To move our application to a previous version of DB2 would have taken an estimated two-year effort. We were thrilled to see it took only one week to move it to the new version of DB2. This represents a terrific opportunity to expand our international community of users, partners and developers. We're very excited to partner with IBM to make new deployment options available."
- Paolo Juvara, CTO, Openbravo
"We ported CeV8 - our Contract Negotiation Management application - from Microsoft SQL Server to DB2 9.5 in early 2009. We planned six months for the enablement, but instead completed our efforts in just six weeks! We subsequently tested DB2 9.7, which only took a half day to install and perform raw tests. Our application performed seamlessly. The ease of enablement, augmented with first class support and responsiveness from IBM, allowed our CeV8 application to be deployed and supported against DB2 9.5 and DB2 9.7. This is development made easy!"
- Xavier Corray, CeV8 - Product Development Manager, All Secure IT
“Over the years, MicroStrategy has remained committed to ensuring that our BI platform is optimized for IBM DB2. As a participant in the IBM DB2 beta program, MicroStrategy has worked closely with IBM to certify our platform for the new version of DB2 and ensure seamless interoperability to support the enterprise-scale business intelligence deployments of our mutual customers."
- Sanju Bansal, COO, MicroStrategy
High Availability
"Our customers demand high availability as our SMS/text based solutions are needed 24x7 for critical business communication processes. Underpinning our SMS, MMS and Email ‘software as a service’ solutions for mobile network operators (including Web SMS, Email SMS, SMS
Marketing, Staffmatch and Reminder) with DB2 9.7 minimizes down time by allowing feature enhancements to be enabled without outages. DB2 9.7 enables us to maintain higher database availability though less scheduled maintenance and downtime than previously required. DB2 9.7 allows Soprano to focus on customer features while knowing that the database is ready to support our enhancements."
- Dr. Richard Favero, CEO, Soprano Design
Lower Database Cost
"CRM system performance is critical to reducing operational costs and delivering a superior customer experience. Working with our partner, IBM, we’ve conducted a rigorous benchmark test that demonstrates the advanced performance of Amdocs CES CRM 7.5 in managing immense, mission-critical contact center deployments."
- Michael Couture, Head of Global Marketing, Amdocs
"These features drastically reduce the time required for migration efforts and significantly lower overall costs."
- Axel Puerner, Managing Consultant, Puerner Unternehmensberatung
"We've been testing DB2 for six months and have found it very reliable and stable. The Workload Manager is very useful, and gives us the exact information we've been looking for. In addition, new features like currently committed semantics, created temporary tables and improved scalar function support provide us more application development flexibility, while compression with data capture changes and LOB inlining will enable us to lower costs and simplify administration. These enhancements are very valuable to our business."
- Marija Ljubic, IT Specialist for DB2, Vestigo
"IBM and SAP have a long history of working closely together to help our mutual clients reduce the costs of running complex business systems. IBM DB2 9.7 is optimized for our recently announced SAP Business Suite 7, which means our clients can take advantage of both the latest SAP capabilities and DB2 enhancements to further lower operational costs - such as storage and server expenses - using the latest DB2 9.7 data compression and performance management capabilities."
- Mike Ellis, VP, SAP
"DB2 9.7 completes the existing efficient compression technology with a very flexible index compression functionality. This is a big step for cost savings because disk space is still a problem for many customers and in many projects. In addition, DB2 9.7 also offers extensive new features that allow for more flexible handling with simplified administration."
- Michael Tiefenbacher, Branch Manager Munich and Data Management Specialist, LIS.TEC GmbH - the High Value ISV Distributor
"We are very pleased to support DB2 9.7 which includes enhancements to compression, autonomics and workload management that will provide users with additional cost saving benefits. The availability of DB2 9.7 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from Novell allows customers to utilize a high performing, low cost database in conjunction with our highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system."
- Michael Applebaum, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell
"Data warehouses are exposed to exponentially increasing volumes of data. This directly relates to a massive increase in necessary administration and IT equipment and a decline in system response time. DB2 9.7 and its outstanding compression feature gives data warehouse projects the ability to reduce disk space, optimize I/O transfers and drastically increase response times. Furthermore, it allows our customers to reduce their administration and hardware costs by up to 30 percent"
- Ursula Flade-Ruf, CEO, mip Management Informationspartner GmbH
Performance Optimization
"At Automatos, we provide information technology solutions to clients across industries, and online response timing is critical. We are very impressed with the performance improvements achieved with the DB2 Self-Tuning Memory Manager (STMM). Reports that took two to three minutes to extract before are now extracted in less than 10 seconds!"
- Michel Esber, R & D Manager, Automatos
“We are very pleased to support DB2 9.7 which includes enhancements to compression, autonomics and workload management that will provide users with additional cost saving benefits. The availability of DB2 9.7 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from Novell allows customers to utilize a high performing, low cost database in conjunction with our highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system."
- Michael Applebaum, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell
"We've been testing DB2 for six months and have found it very reliable and stable. The Workload Manager is very useful, and gives us the exact information we've been looking for. In addition, new features like currently committed semantics, created temporary tables and improved scalar function support provide us more application development flexibility, while compression with data capture changes and LOB inlining will enable us to lower costs and simplify administration. These enhancements are very valuable to our business."
-Marija Ljubic, IT Specialist for DB2, Vestigo
"Because of the results we have achieved using IBM's Self-Tuning Memory Manager (STMM), we successfully completed an urgent plan to enable all our OLTP databases to use STMM. As a result, our overall customer satisfaction increased by almost 40 percent in the last six months and it continues to increase."
- Michel Esber, R & D Manager, Automatos
"IBM and SAP have a long history of working closely together to help our mutual clients reduce the costs of running complex business systems. IBM DB2 9.7 is optimized for our recently announced SAP Business Suite 7, which means our clients can take advantage of both the latest SAP capabilities and DB2 enhancements to further lower operational costs - such as storage and server expenses - using the latest DB2 9.7 data compression and performance management capabilities."
- Mike Ellis, VP, SAP
pureXML
"As a DB2 early access program participant, Estuate has had the opportunity to work with the latest DB2 technology in development. The world-class functionality in the latest DB2 release enables unprecedented interoperability with applications written for other databases, and we are pleased to be an IBM DB2 migration partner. These migration features, along with the improved capabilities of pureXML and Deep Compression, provide very tangible benefits to our clients that are vital in today's economy."
- Marc Herbert, Chief Operating Officer, Estuate
"Inspur is the leading supplier of computing platforms and IT application solutions in China. Its F1 framework for government solution uses Lotus Form and DB2 pureXML to store and manipulate forms. DB2 9.5 pureXML is the best performing choice for us to date. Recently, we have conducted extensive beta testing on DB2 Cobra. Out of the box, DB2 XML's query functions such as XMLTABLE are significantly faster than in DB2 9.5. More impressively, DB2 Cobra achieves the gain while consuming less CPU and with more users on the system. We learned that improvements in the query optimizer contribute to the performance gain. We are very excited about DB2 Cobra's pureXML enhancements and look forward to deploying it to our customers!"
- Xiang Yang Li, Associate Manager of Product Development, Inspur Software Technology Research Center
"In DB2 9.7, XML compression reduces disk space consumption by more than 60%, irrespective of the size of the XML documents. As a result, we expect substantial savings in storage cost and significant performance gains."
- Phil Nelson, Principal IT Consultant, ScotDB Limited
“DB2 Express-C is a great fit for many users of Ubuntu Server Edition. Ubuntu users demand a highly available, high performance environment with strong backup support, which is exactly what DB2 Express-C provides. In addition, enhancements to autonomics, Deep Compression and pureXML provide our customers with a superior database that lowers total cost of ownership."
- Peter Woodward, Key Partner Manager, IBM Alliance, Canonical
SAP
"IBM and SAP have a long history of working closely together to help our mutual clients reduce the costs of running complex business systems. IBM DB2 9.7 is optimized for our recently announced SAP Business Suite 7, which means our clients can take advantage of both the latest SAP capabilities and DB2 enhancements to further lower operational costs - such as storage and server expenses - using the latest DB2 9.7 data compression and performance management capabilities."
- Mike Ellis, VP, SAP
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