New warehousing strategy to cater all types of businesses
December 16th, 2009 | by admin |IBM has introduced into the market several data warehousing strategies, including software, appliances, and services, to relieve the company of the competitive pressure coming from the enterprise market and at the same time cover small- and medium-sized companies.
The company launched a comprehensive Dynamic Warehousing strategy during the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago. The systems are centered around IBM’s DB2 Warehouse 9.1.2, which is based on the DB2 9 database management system, and incorporates the company’s Information Server for data integration. For modeling and mapping, the software is integrated with the Rational Data Architect, as well as the DB2 Alphablox for embedded analytics.
There are three scaled down version of the DB2 Warehouse strategy to cater small and medium-based companies and departments in large organization. In the past, the DB2 was only available for large enterprise. For the same market segments, the compnay has lunched two warehouse appliances that combine software and hardware package. In addition, IBM enhanced its enterprise offerings.
James Kobielus, data manager analyst for Current Analisis said, “IBM with these announcements becomes the premiere data warehousing appliance vendor, in terms of the range of targeted solutions they provide. IBM has significantly improved the packaging, pricing, scalability, professional services, and channel partner programs for its data warehousing and master data management solutions.”
The company also introduced new technology with the launch of the OmniFind Analytics Edition, which solves the problem of extracting business intelligence from unstructured data. The new system, an optional add-on module for the DB2 Warehouse strategy, consolidates and analyzes data from unstructured and structured sources, regardless of the format. The new versions of DB2 Warehouse strategy were also launched into the market, along with all the other warehousing products from IBM.
The three new editions are Advanced, Intermediate, and Starter, and have storage capacities limited to 2 terabytes, 1 terabyte, and 400 Gbytes, respectively. You can buy the Advanced Edition at ,000 while the Intermediate edition costs ,000 and the Starte edition is priced at ,000. The two existing Enterprise and Enterprise Base editions have been enhanced, and pricing starts at $105,000 and $60,000, respectively. On the appliance side, IBM renamed its data warehouse appliance, formerly called Balanced Configuration Units, to Balanced Warehouse.
The E Class, which is exclusive for large enterprise, is complemented with the introduction of two new offerings. The D Class has a capacity from 1 terabyte to 5 terabytes, and can be configured with the DB2 Warehouse Enterprise, Enterprise Base or Advanced Editions. The software is being sold at 5,000. With 1 terabyte, the C class can accomodate at least 200 users and can be preconfigures with DB2 Warehousing strategy.