InfoSphere Warehouse Advanced Enterprise Edition

A high-performance, reliable and scalable platform

• Provides all the performance benefits of IBM DB2 Enterprise Server, which has high key performance benchmarks for transaction and analytical processing.
• Capable of processing data spread across multiple parallel servers for virtually unlimited scalability.
• Includes IBM Optim Performance Manager, which enables you to identify, diagnose, solve and prevent performance problems.
• Features the IBM Workload Manager, which allows you to prioritize your resources for handling queries coming from different users and applications.

Sophisticated analytics

• The cubing services feature supports Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) within the data warehouse, which gives you direct access to current information for faster business decisions.
• Data mining models can be easily developed using drag-and-drop tools in the InfoSphere Warehouse Design Studio.
• The text analytics feature allows you to analyze unstructured data, such as call center logs and emails, and organizes the data into a structure that lends itself to analysis and insight.
• IBM Cognos Business Intelligence software is included for reporting and allows you to perform complex analysis tasks quickly.

An enhanced tooling set

• InfoSphere Data Architect is a collaborative data design solution that you can use to discover, model, visualize, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets.
• Optim Query Tuner for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows helps developers write high-quality queries, build tuning skills and improve database design.
• Optim High Performance Unload for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows allows you to quickly unload, extract and repartition data across enterprise systems.
• DB2 Recovery Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows is a self-managing backup and recovery solution that recovers database objects safely, precisely and quickly without having to resort to full database recovery.
• DB2 Merge Backup for Linux, UNIX and Windows helps ensure full current backups are available and can be restored as quickly as possible.

Prebuilt physical data models and sample reports

• The InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Customer Insight enables you to better analyze customers, and identify the most and least profitable customer profiles.
• The InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Market and Campaign Insight enables you to better analyze market trends, market share and marketing campaigns.
• The InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Supply Chain Insight enables you to understand your vendors, inventory, distribution channel performance, related financial forecasting and overall resource planning.

A simplified pricing structure

• A simple, terabyte-based pricing structure allows you to pay only for the compressed user data you analyze.
• As your data volumes grow, you can purchase additional warehousing capacity on a just-in-time basis.