Business Analytics Software

Business Analytics
IBM Software
Rapid Deployment and
Expansion: Business
Analytics and Data
Warehousing on System z
Changing market dynamics are driving the
need for more rapid deployment and expansion
of Business Analytics and Data Warehousing
solutions
Business analytics and data warehousing are at the heart of business
insight and are considered a critical strategic asset for most
organizations. Implemented quickly and correctly, they can help
organizations identify new opportunities, respond to business
situations faster and ultimately increase competitive advantage.
Individuals in every industry and in every role, especially those on
the front lines, depend on a strong business analytics and underlying
data warehousing strategy that can enable them to make smarter, more
informed business decisions and improve business performance.
These users cannot wait days, weeks or even months for the business
information they need to do their jobs. And, the longer it takes for
IT to meet their requirements, the more it costs the organization
overall in unattained business advantage.
For these reasons, it is now a necessity for IT organizations to
be able to quickly deploy and expand their business analytics and
data warehousing infrastructure. They need the agility for providing
the most current functionality and applications while keeping up
with growing user adoption and data volumes that are expanding
enterprise wide.
Highlights:
Start with your most critical requirement,
such as functionality, application,
department or enterprise
Choose from turn-key optimized
deployment, private cloud, or services
and education
Expand quickly and cost-effectively to
keep pace with rapid user and data
growth while improving return on
investment
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Many organizations struggle to meet
these new requirements
Many business analytics and data warehousing projects are
implemented at the departmental level. This approach
requires individual commitment by each business group in an
organization to continually:
Assess their current capacity versus expanding requirements.
Procure, acquire, install and manage new hardware and
software.
Defne and prepare data for access by all users.
Train and enable their expanding user base.
All of this takes time, and in most cases, it also requires
additional staff and funding for any real value to be derived
from a business analytics and data warehousing solution.
That can mean taking resources from other projects or
hiring additional staff not allocated for in current budgets.
Either way, many organizations fnd that their administration
staff is spread too thin and may not have the domain expertise
needed to implement the project quickly and effciently and
update it continuously. In addition, because these solutions
are implemented individually, team by team, there is little to
no opportunity to take advantage of the experiences and best
practices of other departments.
Faced with these challenges, many IT organizations are
seeking new alternatives that can keep pace with growing
business user demands for a more modern data warehousing
and business analytics experience. They are looking for
options that will simplify and speed up the deployment and
expansion processes so they can:
Quickly scale to support growing batches of data and
increases in business users without performance degradation.
Support more users and more frequent and sophisticated
queries of larger volumes of data while ensuring optimal
availability and performance even when usage demands
fuctuate.
Find the resources necessary to deploy, manage and maintain
business intelligence investment and all the data.
Avoid budget constraints that prevent departments from
meeting computing requirements for system scalability,
availability and performance, which can have adverse effects
on query response times and, ultimately, productivity.
Maintain control over who is accessing data.
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Fortunately, there is a solution: Deploying
data warehousing and business analytics
on System z
Today, there are organizations that are successfully meeting
and exceeding the business analytics and data warehousing
expectations of their growing user base in a time frame that
can aggressively optimize business performance. These
organizations are deploying a business analytics and data
warehousing offering on the IBM

System z

platform, so
they can:
Meet the business analytics and data warehousing needs of
their entire enterprise with a single solution.
Minimize time-intensive reengineering of their entire
solution when deployment demands grow or change,
which enables them to start with their fnal architecture.
Implement and expand without time-consuming hardware
acquisitions, software installations, network confgurations,
testing, training and administration.
Enable teams to learn from the experiences of other
departments using the same solution.
Facilitate staff profciency in business analytics and data
warehousing as their areas of expertise.
Centralize their administration staff so they can collect
business requirements and implement them effectively.
The System z solution allows for a staged implementation
for immediate business value. With proven virtualization
capabilities, you can reconfgure and adjust your solution
to meet changing business needs without disruptive cable
reinstallation or server software and hardware redeployment.
To ensure rapid deployment and expansion, the solution
provides:
Turnkey, optimized and integrated hardware, software
and services so you are up and running quickly
A portfolio of services and education to help your
organization quickly, easily and effciently implement
and execute
IBM Business Analytics and Data Warehousing on System z
can help you start with your most critical issues and then
position your solution to grow and evolve as your business
and the market demands. Many organizations already realize
that if IT can quickly provide the scalability, availability and
performance that that business needs, not only is the project a
success, but a domino effect kicks in. More and more users
adopt the business analytics and data warehousing solution,
which further improves return on investment (ROI). The
table that follows provides more information about how the
capabilities of the System z platform can help you meet and
exceed your business analytics and data warehousing goals.
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Todays strategy Issue with todays
strategy
Value System z can
provide
Business benets

Deploy, maintain and support
multiple business analytics and
data warehousing solutions based
on individual departmental and or
functional area requirements
Each initiative requires investment in
resources for acquiring, deploying,
managing and training their own users,
all of whom must be taken off other
projects or hired
Multiple people throughout the
organization are doing the same job,
each one not working at full capacity
as they are spread too thin
How success in other departments was
achieved is rarely shared so time is
wasted making the same mistakes
The time it takes to get a business
analytics initiative off the ground and
running is frustrating to the users,
resulting in less user adoption and
users fnding their own solution
The capacity to accommodate all
departmental requirements but on a
single centralized infrastructure
Simple deployment of new workloads
by adding additional processors,
disk and memory dynamically to
your existing System z investment
and infrastructure all without adding
new people
Multiple deployment options to
meet business needs that include
turnkey optimized (hardware, software
and services), private cloud and
services and education
Quick, cost-effective deployment that
can keep pace with rapid user and
data growth for faster return
on investment
Faster access to and a consistent
view of all information in the
organization
Minimized learning curves and
improved user effciency and
satisfaction
Ability to apply best practices
while meeting and exceeding service
level agreements
Choosing System z for your business analytics and data warehousing infrastructure helps reduce the time and
resources to put information in the hands of business.
Requirement: Quickly deploy a business analytics and data warehousing solution that will meet enterprise-
wide demand for business information
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Todays strategy Issue with todays
strategy
Value System z can
provide
Business benets

Expand solutions by purchasing new
hardware, software and resources
Require each individualized
department to rely on its own
resources for new training and
support needs
Expanding requires additional budget
approvals for both the additional licenses
as well as the addition of hardware and
resources
Growth requires that the entire
implementation be reengineered to
ensure all possible economies of
scale are delivered, increasing the
time to deliver
The time required to scale up to more
users and out to more data is extended
due to delays related to hardware and
software acquisitions
Consolidated view that includes all
departments takes time and must be
manually created
Lack of centralized skills and knowledge
are preventing users from quickly learning
and using business analytics tools
A centralized infrastructure that
enables you to add additional
processors, disk and memory
dynamically without taking the
system down
Additional resources that can be
pre-installed, prepared and activated
as needed with a pay-when-used plan
Servers that run at 100% of capacity
or higher with the reallocation of
resources when they are not in use to
optimize performance, reducing how
often expansion is required
Industry-leading virtualization
capabilities that can be brought on
line in a matter of minutes or less to
accommodate growth in users, data
or both with all processors being used
at full capacity
Capacity that can be increased
incrementally without redistributing
data, changing the underlying data
or bringing the solution down
Ability to expand the data warehouse
incrementally based on concrete
versus projected requirements.
On-demand capacity for test and
development environments, which
eliminates the need to need to build
and maintain dedicated resources
Ability to move workload dynamically
during an outage
A cost-effective enterprise solution
that can grow incrementally as the
business demands allowing for a
staged implementation that delivers
immediate value.
Little to no disruption when bringing
new users on board and expanding
the overall solution.
Increased productivity and business
performance with more, diverse user
types supported
Increased ROI with fewer unused
seats and greater collaboration
between users and functional areas

Requirement: Expand business analytics and data warehousing solution rapidly to keep pace with growing
business user demand
Running the data warehouse on System z also boosts staff effciency. The same staff that runs our
operational systems also runs the data warehousing, so no new employees are necessary to manage
the warehouse on System z. System z allows us to achieve consistent performance and reliable
uptime, which is crucial for maintaining the highest degree of customer confdence in the bank
and its services.
Hermann Schelling, Head of Database Engineering, Zrcher Kantonalbank
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Conclusion
The IBM System z platform is the ideal platform for
modern business analytics and data warehousing. Its core
value proposition aligns perfectly with the new requirements
that changing market dynamics demand while reducing
operating costs and complexity. As those hosting transactional
data on System z today already realize, it is one of the most
secure, highest available and reliable platforms on the
market one that can scale to accommodate increasing
volumes of data and a growing number of users. System z
simplifes the deployment, maintenance and management
of your business analytics and data warehousing solutions
so you can more easily meet todays aggressive business
requirements.
IBM Data Warehousing and Business Analytics solutions
on System z give you a complete portfolio of business and
technology solutions that help everyone from executives to
data analysts to employees on the front line gain insight
and foresight. Real-time monitoring, reporting, analysis,
dashboards and a robust set of predictive analytics enable
everyone in your company to make smart, proactive business
decisions when and where they are needed. With an enterprise
data warehouse infrastructure as the foundation for your
business analytics investment, your users are ensured
consistent, secure access to accurate and timely business
information.
About Data Warehousing on System z
As organizations reevaluate their current data warehousing
strategies, they must remove the barriers that isolate their
information. The right data warehousing solution will
enable a unifed view of business information that crosses
organizational boundaries. To address this requirement,
many organizations are choosing System z as the platform
for their data warehousing needs. IBM data warehousing
software on System z provides a comprehensive portfolio
of solutions designed to reduce data movement, improve
query response times, provide near real-time access to critical
business information and minimize complexity through
the deployment of transactional and warehouse data on a
single platform.
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About IBM Business Analytics
IBM Business Analytics software delivers actionable insights
decision-makers need to achieve better business performance.
IBM offers a comprehensive, unifed portfolio of business
intelligence, predictive and advanced analytics, fnancial
performance and strategy management, governance, risk
and compliance and analytic applications.
With IBM software, companies can spot trends, patterns and
anomalies, compare what if scenarios, predict potential
threats and opportunities, identify and manage key business
risks and plan, budget and forecast resources. With these
deep analytic capabilities our customers around the world can
better understand, anticipate and shape business outcomes.
For more information
For further information or to reach a representative please
visit ibm.com/analytics.
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ibm.com/business-analytics/contactus.
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For more information about Data
Warehousing and Business Intelligence
on System z
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Business Intelligence on System z can help you, visit:
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