IBM Shows Data Warehousing at Gartner Summit

On Tuesday, IBM announced its Dynamic Warehousing strategy at Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit (Chicago). Built around DB2 Warehouse 9.1.2 (itself based on DB2 9), the Dynamic Warehousing portfolio includes a slew of new software, appliances and services, including IBM Information Server for data integration, Rational Data Architect for modeling, and DB2 Alphablox for analytics.

Three Dynamic Warehousing software packages are being offered -- addressing the needs of small and midsize businesses and departments in large organizations. IBM also announced a matched set of data warehouse appliances for the same market segments. IBM also introduced OmniFind Analytics -- an add-on module for DB2 Warehouse -- which helps extract "business intelligence" from unstructured data.

All new products are to be available by month's end -- software-only packages start at a low end of around $10,000 (Starter edition, 400GB storage), and ascend in price to around $50,000 and in terms of storage, to two TB. Appliance packages begin around $15,000 (C Class appliance, 1TB and 200 users max), and grow to four TB and up.

IBM also announced enhancements to its Global Services portfolio -- they'll provide a range of support, consulting and management services aimed at letting small, medium and larger enterprises get biggest benefit from the data warehousing investment.

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