DB2 Alphablox

Adds New Function to IBM Business Intelligence Portfolio

• Adds a set of components, based on open standards, that allow you to deliver on the vision of integrated analytics
• Enables you to broaden and deepen business performance management capabilities across organizations
• Provides dynamic insight into your respective business environment
• Allows you to quickly take advantage of new opportunities and overcome challenges while you still have the opportunity to make significant adjustments

What's New in DB2 Alphablox V9.5?

IBM Alphablox V9.5 for Linux™, UNIX®, and Windows™ can help you and partners maximize the value of information assets by delivering contextual business insight to the right people at the point of decision. Whether you want to build dashboards, scorecards, or just to embed analytics into an existing application, Alphablox is an effective way to bring business insight to the entire organization.

Alphablox V9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows now enables developers to build analytic, browser-based applications with a new, easy-to-use point-and-click user interface. It also provides functionality to make it easier to design, develop, and test analytic applications and new features to help users interact with data and perform calculations.

A new feature in Alphablox V9.5, Blox Builder, provides a code-free development environment that enables faster and easier designing, building, testing, and deploying of Alphablox analytic applications for both non-Java™ developers and Java developers.

Blox Builder is an Eclipse plug-in for DB2® Warehouse Design Studio, Eclipse, or Rational® Application Developer. It provides a graphical user interface, and the underlying infrastructure and components for building Alphablox applications. Blox Builder enables non-Java developers to build an interactive report using Alphablox components through the use of wizards and editors. It also provides Java developers extension points for customizing and creating components, reports, and applications.

In addition to Blox Builder, Alphablox V9.5 adds IBM DB2 Warehouse Cubing Services as a newly supported multidimensional data source. Also new is Linux on System z™, as well as a number of key product enhancements and fixes

DB2® Alphablox for UNIX and Windows™ has an open architecture that is built to integrate with your existing IT infrastructure, ensuring that you gain the highest return on your information investments. In addition, DB2 Alphablox further lowers your total cost of ownership by leveraging existing resources and skill sets to deliver sophisticated analytic capability customized to each individual user and role.

DB2 Alphablox is optimized for rapid application delivery and deployment, providing a component-based, comprehensive framework for integrating analytics into existing business processes and systems. By implementing solutions that include DB2 Alphablox capabilities, leading enterprises maximize the value of their information assets by delivering business insight to the right people at the point-of-decision.

Leading enterprises in financial services, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, retail, and energy are successfully leveraging DB2 Alphablox technology inside a wide variety of integrated analytic solutions. DB2 Alphablox enables organizations to integrate analytics across all functions and lines of business, and enable powerful analytic solutions to business users at the front lines for improved decision making. It enables customers and partners to optimize various aspects of their business solutions, including:

• Self-service reporting and analysis applications
• Operational analysis applications
• Financial reporting and analysis applications
• Planning applications
• Business Performance and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboards

DB2 Alphablox's open architecture and component approach to application development provide for a high degree of customization when delivering analytic solutions and offer numerous options for application front-end interfaces to meet the requirements of the casual to the power user.

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• 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.

• 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.