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System z - Delivering on the Full Promise of Business Intelligence

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Overview As Business Intelligence (BI) continues to evolve from a specialised back-office function and expand into front-line business operations, a 'Modern' class of mainframe has emerged as a viable and compelling platform on which to run BI and analytic applications. This paper explains how the hallmark strengths of System z - performance, application availability, reliability and security - are well suited to meet modern BI requirements that are becoming more complex and realtime in nature.

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Publisher	Ovum	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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