IBM has a webcast scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. (New York) time on May 22, 2008, focused on how to deliver and improve operational business intelligence on System z. Business intelligence needs are maturing rapidly, and for increasing numbers of businesses it is no longer acceptable to wait until the end of month reports to uncover and correct problems such as fraud, inventory mishandling, customer service discrepancies, and other real-time issues.
So IBM has been strengthening System z's unique capabilities for operational business intelligence. This webcast provides an introduction. To register, please visit: http://w.on24.com/clients/ibm/106630 Editorial comment: I'm highlighting this one because I think it represents a fundamental strategic shift in how IBM is positioning the mainframe. For years we've had the "dump your data from here to there, then run your analysis there" architectural pattern for business intelligence solutions. Well, that pattern works OK for certain needs but is pretty terrible for others. And it introduces a bunch of difficult problems concerning data security and privacy protection, disaster recovery and availability, timeliness and currency of answers to critical business questions, high infrastructure costs, and other issues. I think there's increasing recognition that business intelligence solutions must be more...intelligent. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
