IBM is feeding demand for
real-time information with the launch of its
Dynamic Warehousing business intelligence (BI)
strategy.
Customers can pull out knowledge from traditional structured
sources as well as from audio files, e-mail and other unstructured
sources, providing front-line workers with real-time information to
inform their business decisions.
IBM is claiming this represents the third generation of
datawarehousing. The first wave used query and reporting to
understand what had happened; the second wave took this further,
using online analytical processing and data mining to analyse
historical data and recommend future action. IBM contends that
dynamic warehousing enables firms to use that historical analysis
for making real-time business decision.
Early users include law enforcement agencies who can present
detectives with a list of potential suspects as they reach a crime
scene by comparing the incident against similar events. Insurance
companies could potentially pick out fraudulent claims before
they’ve been approved.
The cornerstone of this new approach is an enhanced version of
DB2 9 Viper warehouse that offers a raft of new features including
deep compression technology to improve performance and analytics
capabilities.
New Starter and Intermediate editions of DB2 will also come
under the dynamic warehousing umbrella. For impatient customers,
IBM is also introducing Balanced Warehouse with pre-configured
hardware, software and storage.
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