Compiled especially for those less experienced with business intelligence concepts, this collection of material introduces you to concepts of data warehousing and real-time analytics. You will learn what IBM's business intelligence products are and how they can form a foundation for meeting your business intelligence requirements. In addition, you will find materials to help you begin educating yourself on these products.
Read the following for an overview of the IBM Business Intelligence framework:
Evolve to insight with business intelligence with Information on Demand Supported by the IBM integrated information infrastructure, the IBM business intelligence portfolio provides the industry's broadest and most visionary software platform to help organizations leverage their investment in information technologies. This white paper discusses the value of the IBM BI portfolio as a key component of the IBM information infrastructure.
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DB2 Universal Database V8 Administration Guide The Administration Guide provides a foundation for data warehousing concepts, as well as providing information necessary to use and administer the DB2 relational database management system (RDBMS) products. Two chapters in particular will help you get started:
Solving Business Problems with DB2 Intelligent Miner
This tutorial shows you how to generate explanations for business problems by applying Intelligent Miner Modeling to corporate data. It also shows you how to display the results with Intelligent Miner Visualization.
Taking Control: DB2 Query Patroller
How do you deal with the conflicting pressures of opening the data warehouse to more users while guaranteeing rapid response times? A preemptive query governor puts you in control of which queries from which users run (and when).
Getting Started on Integrating Your Information
Chapters 1 and 2. This Redbook shows, through examples, the various ways in which information integration can be implemented as a "pure play" or in conjuction with the other approaches for integration.
Now that you are familiar with the concepts, download a copy of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, and take this tutorial for a hands-on introduction to using IBM Information Management software to create Business Intelligence solutions.
Take tutorial: DB2 Planning Part one of this seven-part series on DB2 will introduce you to DB2 basics with an introduction to data warehousing and OLAP
DB2 partitioning features: An overview for data warehouses See how table partitioning, multidimensional clustering, database partitioned tables, and materialized query tables work as a team in the context of DB2 data warehouses, and examine their benefits for query performance, roll-in, and roll-out.
Get started with DB2 Data Warehouse OLAP services Online analytical processing (OLAP) services bring business insight from every dimension of your data. Get acquainted with the OLAP services in DB2 Data Warehouse Edition.
ETL Solutions for DB2 UDB This article focuses on extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of data for DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, and describes the major options, technologies, and products available from IBM and other vendors.
Using DB2 OLAP Functions Online analytical processing (OLAP) functions are very flexible and powerful. Using them, you may come up with simple solutions to some problems that would otherwise require either iteration through one or several cursors or recursion. In some other cases it is much easier to write a query using OLAP functions or auxiliary tables than to write an equivalent query not using them.
Creating an Intelligent and Flexible Solution with BPM, Business Rules, and Business Intelligence: Part 3, Data Warehouse Visibility This article focuses on the role of business intelligence in an intelligent and flexible BPM solution. It discusses the application of on-line analytical processing (OLAP) technology for advanced analytics, considering both OLAP access and integration. This includes drilling down to the technical details of implementing a dynamic pricing model. Finally, it introduces DB2 Cube Views, an extension to the OLAP paradigm which, when used with OLAP products, can be used to produce optimized OLAP solutions for enterprises.
Solving Business Problems with IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner This tutorial shows you how to generate explanations for business problems by applying Intelligent Miner Modeling to corporate data. It also shows you how to display the results with Intelligent Miner Visualization.
Building a data mining solution using IBM Intelligent Miner Modeling and WebSphere The objective of this tutorial is to get you confident with the problem of handling multiple mining tasks at the same time in your J2EE Web application. The tutorial also demonstrates how to use the Easy Mining Procedures interface of Intelligent Miner.
Mining your Business in Retail with IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner This tutorial shows you how to apply data mining techniques using IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner to automatically generate product recommendations for customers in an e-commerce shop environment.
Featured Redbook:
Preparing for DB2 Near-Realtime Business Intelligence This IBM Redbook discusses primary processes and various alternatives that prepare you for implementing a DB2 near-realtime business intelligence environment. The authors discuss architectural alternatives and include overviews of software products that you can use in an implementation.
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IBM Data Warehousing: With IBM Business Intelligence Tools In IBM Data Warehousing, Michael Gonzales shows how to exploit IBM technologies to get the most from your data warehousing investment. These technologies include everything from SMP and MPP technical architectures to DB2 Universal Database and DB2 OLAP Server. The author provides an in-depth look at the fundamentals of business intelligence (BI), the BI architecture, data management, and enhanced analytics. In addition, he presents expert tips, tricks, and workarounds to ensure maximum performance of your IBM data warehouse.
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IBM Business Intelligence Roadmaps These roadmaps list the informatio resources that are available for various Business Intelligence products..
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