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Today, companies that succeed will be the ones who manage information more effectively than their competitors. They will spot trends quicker, predict risk more accurately, or manage inventory flawlessly.
By 2008, world class IT organizations will rigorously integrate policies, people, platform and processes to fulfill their composite objectives, encompassing investment, risk, speed, quality, time and business alignment. Can your current architecture keep up with your demands? IBM has the breadth of experience and depth of capability to help you!
Your company will need to quickly assess which technology will support and enhance your business. Top-tier companies recognize the value of benchmarking and proofs of concept as a key source for quickly and effectively making better decisions.
Our Business Intelligence Center of Competency (BI CoC) provides one of the most advanced Business Intelligence facilities in the world today. Our facilities offer a variety of options and solutions to enable organizations to "trial" their Business Intelligence concept to ensure a successful outcome. IBM provides a low risk controlled environment which will demonstrate the value and effectiveness of the proposed system. We will provide dedicated resources to help you:
- Leverage Best Practices and years of experience in Business Intelligence solutions.
- Understand product functionality, integration and compatibility.
- Effectively measure results.
- Assess key functionality and performance relative to peer companies in your industry.
- Establish baseline performance metrics to create a foundation for business process improvement.
- Accelerate your time to value with a proven BI configuration and intellectual assets such as our industry data models.
Furthermore, the BI CoC provides a unique collaborative experience that combines deep industry skills and experience with strong technical knowledge and know-how.
Our technical facilities leverage today's leading eServer technology, TotalStorage solutions and the IBM family of DB2 database products. The BI CoC offers a variety of options including:
- "Show It" - a half-day or full-day hands-on workshop aimed at showing you the high value BI solutions IBM offers by our expert specialists. Included are product demonstrations, sharing of best practices, and architecture and design discussions.
- "Prove It" - a small scale demonstration or Proof of Concept (POC) showing how your business objectives can be met using our IBM Business Intelligence solutions. Dedicated specialists will work with you to understand your business objectives and success criteria, collect sample data and queries and run your queries on our proven Data Warehouse configuration.
- "Scale It" - a customized, full scale, multi-terabyte, real world simulation of your data warehousing environment. Your data and queries will be loaded on our fully configured hardware environment in one of our Benchmark Centers to prove full performance, scalability, backup and restore, and life cycle management.
The BI CoC also offers remote and onsite consultation support such as customer briefings, solution design reviews, research services, technical and business assessments, growth reviews, and data warehouse tuning recommendations to assist customers in making the best platform selection and implementation decisions. By working collaboratively with customers, consultants, systems integrators and solution developers, IBM can provide firsthand insights, not only into the technical requirements, but also into the business needs that drive the technology requirements.
There are multiple BI CoC facilities throughout the world, each with dedicated resources and equipment. These resources are dedicated to helping you recognize the benefit of your Business Intelligence environment.
There are few more telling competitive factors in modern business than the ability to manage and use data effectively. Companies today are more reliant than ever on information concerning all aspects of their business performance, customers, and the marketplace. That's why it is important that you choose robust database and Information Management solutions. Ensure that you make the right decision by validating your solution with the IBM Business Intelligence Center of Competency.
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