DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition contain the essential building blocks for on demand business. These new editions combine the strength of DB2 UDB with essential IBM business intelligence infrastructure.
DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Data Warehouse Editions (DWE) provide improved performance and usability of BI features for real-time insight and decision making to achieve information on demand. The latest release of DB2DWE enables customers and partners to perform mining, Online Analytic Processing (OLAP), Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), and advanced analytics with a single unified engine operating on common data structures within a consolidated data warehouse. It combines a carefully selected set of IBM BI products to provide the essential infrastructure needed to extend the enterprise data warehouse as a platform for BI.
DB2DWE continues to empower organisations by adding world-class Web-based analytics and reporting to the existing end-to-end platform. With DB2 Alphablox, DB2 DWE extends DWE with an industry-leading platform for the rapid assembly and broad deployment of integrated analytics and report visualization embedded within applications, providing the essential infrastructure needed to extend the enterprise data warehouse as a platform for BI. DB2 Alphablox realises a truly comprehensive BI platform operating on common data structures within the data warehouse.
DB2 Alphablox also can be deployed in operational applications to provide inline or embedded analytics, extending the value-add of DWE beyond the data warehouse environment.
DB2 DWE leverages the full portfolio of partner tools, applications, and services, as well as IBM's own software portfolio (including Rational, Tivoli, Lotus, and WebSphere), to deliver full-function BI platforms for customer and partner solution development.
Enterprise Edition is ideal for large data warehouses and other BI solutions that require best-of-breed scalability and manageability. DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition’s features include: