Over at the IBM Data Warehousing & Analytics blog, Joseph Ng discusses the major OLAP architectures and InfoSphere Warehouse’s Cubing Services feature. Joseph also provides a long list of free resources for Cubing Services. Check it out.
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Data warehousing best practices with DB2
Congratulations to Kate. She just wrote her first post on the IBM Data Warehousing & Analytics blog. You can read it here.
Free IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 Redbook
Just released: InfoSphere Warehouse: A Robust Infrastructure for Business Intelligence
Here’s the abstract:
In this IBM® Redbooks® publication we describe and demonstrate Version 9.7 of IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse. InfoSphere Warehouse is a comprehensive platform with all the functionality required for developing robust infrastructure for business intelligence solutions. It enables companies to access and analyze operational and historical information, whether structured or unstructured, to gain business insight for improved decision making. InfoSphere Warehouse solutions simplify the processes of developing and maintaining a data warehousing infrastructure and can significantly enhance the time to value for business analytics.
The InfoSphere Warehouse platform provides a fully integrated environment built around IBM DB2® 9.7 server technology on Linux®, UNIX® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms, as well as System z®. Common user interfaces support application development, data modeling and mapping, SQL transformation, online application processing (OLAP) and data mining functionality from virtually all types of information.
Composed of a component-based architecture, it extends the DB2 data warehouse with design-side tooling and runtime infrastructure for OLAP, data mining, inLine analytics and intra-warehouse data movement and transformation, on a common platform.
Thanks to the authors: Chuck Ballard, Nicole Harris, Andrew Lawrence, Meridee Lowry, Andy Perkins, and Sundari Voruganti.
The components of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
While reviewing the web traffic analytics report for this blog, I noticed a number of visitors looking for information about the components included in IBM InfoSphere Warehouse.
Here are two links that provide the information you’re looking for:
More free resources for InfoSphere Warehouse Cubing Services
Back in December, I highlighted the availability of the a new InfoSphere Warehouse Redbook that focused exclusively on our Cubing Services OLAP feature.
[If you’re unfamiliar with benefits of Cubing Services, check out this short video.]
Since then, the team at IBM International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) have been working hard with our InfoSphere Warehouse experts to deliver new 2 free publications.
A Valentine’s Day gift from IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
Your friends at IBM InfoSphere Warehouse have made it easier to deploy data warehouses and data marts in virtualized environments.
“Macintosh: Insanely Great”
MacRumours.com pointed out that January 24, 2009 marked the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Apple Macintosh.
Below is a YouTube video of a younger (and healthier) Steve Job’s demonstrating the Mac.
New InfoSphere Warehouse Redbook available
Are you looking to squeeze the most out of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse’s Cubing Services?
DB2 9.5 – Upgrade Benefits and Best Practices eSeminar available online
Should you or shouldn’t you?
If your enterprise runs DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, you probably know that a growing number of installations have made the move to DB2 9.5, and reaped the benefits.
Is it time for you to do the same?
Introducing DB2′s Administrative Task Scheduler
In September, Kevin See and I published a how-to article on IBM’s popular developerWorks community website. The article describes the new SQL-based Administrative Task Scheduler that was introduced in DB2 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
