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Customer Video: SAP IT Chooses DB2

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Overview SAP's main driver for choosing IBM on DB2 was about the simple question: "What do we get for the money?". Find out why SAP Corporate Business Systems chose IBM DB2.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Data Mining - Analysis, Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Database Applications

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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Channel:
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dti,
sap,
efficiency

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Tags:
mod

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Are you a safe driver? The reassuring glow of green showed the impeccable track record of the driver that I was about to carelessly besmirch with my shuddering stops and hairpin turns. Each journey is logged to give your overall rating as a driver...

Channel:
Desktops
Tags:
safety,
cars,
driving

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