Data Management

Can you get more value from your data at less cost?

According to ITG "Overall growth in data and storage volumes is routinely in the range of 30 to 50 percent per year." The cost of managing all of that data is substantial. Database software. Storage systems. Servers. These costs, like the volumes of data, continue to rise. The costs are even greater if data is mismanaged and you run afoul of regulatory demands or risk mistakes and poor service.

IBM Data Management solutions provide you with the capability to:

• Manage and control ever-increasing amounts of data
• Derive greater value from your data leveraging your existing investments, across complex, heterogeneous IT environments – and with the flexibility to adapt to evolving requirements
• Lower costs while you improve ROI by gaining more immediate business value from your data

Data management software from IBM provides the foundation and tools for lowering the cost of data while improving insight to enable better business decisions – and build a smarter planet.

• Reliance Life Insurance Company cut the cost of ownership of its data management systems in half.
• The KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden is using real-time data analysis software from IBM to design more efficient and environmentally friendly traffic systems.
• Visa Europe addresses customer needs more efficiently and differentiates itself from the competition.
• Austrian Manufacturer PLANSEE saved 30 percent on its storage needs and improved response times 30 to 50 percent.

The IBM Data Management family includes products optimized for a wide variety of uses, from personal devices, to embedded business applications, to the largest and most powerful OLTP applications. The portfolio covers everything from database software to data warehousing with business intelligence and analytics to database management tools and more.

Data Management podcast

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  Conor O'Mahony with Information Management at IBM discusses how as organizations process more and more information, the value of the systems and availability and need to organize that data is critical.

• Download the podcast (MP3, 00:12:32, 7.19 MB)
• Download the transcript (PDF, 24KB)
• Learn more about Data Management

Data Management resources

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  Webcast

  Data Management Essentials: IBM Optim Data Growth, Data Management and Data Privacy Solutions.

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  ebook

  Data Management for Smarter Business Outcomes

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  White paper

  Enterprise Data Management. Strategies to Increase Business Effectiveness.

Business Analytics

Enable organizations to better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes.

Get breakthrough results

Information Governance

Proactively managing information across heterogeneous information supply chains.

Increase compliance, reduce costs

Enterprise Content Management

Turn content into business insight using industry-specific solutions.

Discover a single solution

Information Integration and Federation

Establish new business process with the creation and distribution of trusted information.

Improve existing apps

IBM Data Warehousing

Provide a robust and scalable foundation for rapid deployment of real-time analytics and reporting.

Save time with industry models

Related solutions

• Big data
• Information Agenda
• Data and process models for your industry
• Smart Analytics System

Data management for smarter business

IBM database software and data management solutions deliver proven capabilities for reducing the cost and complexity of managing your data, improving business agility, and leveraging your company's core asset - your data.

Featured products

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  DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

  DB2 is optimized to deliver industry-leading performance across multiple workloads, while lowering administration, storage, development, and server costs.

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  DB2 for z/OS

  IBM® DB2® for z/OS® helps you to reduce cost and complexity in your IT infrastructure, simplify compliance, and leverage your core asset — your data.

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  Informix

  Voted #1 database software in customer satisfaction. Clients choose Informix because it is reliable, low cost, and hassle free. Solution providers choose Informix for its best-of-breed embeddability.

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  solidDB

  IBM solidDB™ is known worldwide for delivering data with extreme speed.

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  IMS

  IBM® Information Management System (IMS™) is the premier transaction and hierarchical database management system. The latest capabilities enable SOA exploitation, secure your investment and enable new application development.

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  InfoSphere Optim

  InfoSphere Optim Data Management solutions manage data from requirements to retirement.

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  InfoSphere Guardium

  Solutions for assuring the privacy and integrity of trusted information in your data center and reducing costs by automating the entire compliance auditing process in heterogeneous environments.

All products - Data Management

Transparent application scaling with DB2 pureScale

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Data Privacy Best Practices

Read the white paper

Integrated Data Management: Finding the Business Value

Watch the webcast

IBM DB2 10 for zOS - Reduce costs with improved performance

Read the consultant paper

Additional information

• A Day in the Life of a DBA
• Triton Consulting: Quantitative Complexity Analysis DB2 9.7 v Oracle 11gR2
• Why DB2 for z/OS is better than Oracle RAC

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