IBM Business Optimization Briefing Center

In-Depth Resources

• Evaluating Real-time Data Integration Solutions

  Access to timely and accurate information has become a critical driver of business success. But increasingly, organizations are hitting roadblocks in their quest for up-to-date accurate information. With IBM's Change Data Capture (CDC) technology, you'll be able to leverage your existing investment and provide a continuous flow of trusted information to a data warehouse while ensuring minimal risk and downtime to mission critical systems. Discover more about how you can gain scalable, high performance data integration in real time with minimal latency. Read more »

• Balanced Warehouse Overview — Flexible Foundation for Real-Time BI

  Why continue to struggle to make sense of a growing volume of information that is stored in multiple and disparate silos? With the IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse, organizations get everything they need—from software to hardware to services—in an integrated, flexible, reliable, and scalable data warehouse solution. View this video to see how IBM takes away the pain of implementing a data warehouse solution and turns such deployments into a major gain for businesses. View the video »

• IBM Balanced Warehouse — Helping Convergence CT Save Lives

  In this presentation, Convergence CT founder Lambert Onuma explains how they employ a DB2 based balanced warehouse to help save lives. Convergence CT chose the IBM Balanced Warehouse to gather and analyze huge amounts of patient data because it offers a high-performance, secure platform for storing sensitive information, and it's built to handle growth. View the video »

• Dynamic Warehousing

  Find out why there's a growing need for operational BI, and how an operational BI implementation impacts both a traditional BI environment and day-to-day business transaction systems. In this paper, Intelligent Solutions also will discuss why the concept of dynamic warehousing is required to fully integrate and leverage operational BI. Read more »

• Introducing IBM InfoSphere Family of Products

  The next step in the evolution of IBM's complete data warehousing line is covered here, in an informative podcast series that outlines how the vendor's "dynamic warehousing" concept further delivers on its promise to transform information into a trusted strategic asset, manage it throughout its lifespan, and deliver it in context to the people, applications and processes that need it. Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed »

• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for IBM System z

  There's new interest in the mainframe as a data warehousing and business intelligence option. As it becomes increasingly important for organizations to give new and larger populations access to operational data, they'll want to draw upon a portfolio of innovative data warehousing and business intelligence solutions designed specifically for flexible, scalable, and cost-effective mainframe platforms. Learn how your organization can profit from a holistic, mainframe-oriented approach to extending its mission-critical data warehousing and business intelligence functions. Read more »