IBM EXPANDS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE
IBM announced that it will expand its business intelligence initiative behind the newly acquired NUMA-Q server brand with the development of a $13 million NUMA-Q Teraplex Integration Center, a comprehensive proof-of-concept center for BI solutions. The NUMA-Q server brand will have grown its BI-related revenue by 40% in 1999.
The NUMA-Q Teraplex Integration Center will open in the first quarter of Year 2000 to enable customers and business partners to plan, develop and proof BI solutions based on NUMA-Q servers. Teraplex consultants and engineers will provide customers with proven methodologies and intellectual capital to reduce risk and speed deployment of complex solutions that bring intelligence to e-business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems.
"Massively scalable BI solutions have become critical to many of our customers as they deploy next generation enterprise e-business and CRM systems," said Ben Barnes, general manager of IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions. "The NUMA-Q platform brings a new level of performance, scalability and manageability that strengthens our industry leading BI initiative. The more than fifty NUMA-Q data warehouses with greater than a terabyte of attached storage are a testament to the platform's strong position in high-end of the BI market."
IBM's Terabyte Club, consisting of IBM customers with more than one trillion bytes of data stored in a data warehouse, is the latest in a series of efforts by IBM to support the massive movement of customers and industries into the next phase of information-driven e-business. With the addition of NUMA-Q's 50 terabyte customers, the Terabyte Club now has 170 members.
The NUMA-Q Teraplex facility will include a 10 TB system resource for testing multi-terabyte solutions able to leverage NUMA-Q's massively scalable processing power and industry leading I/O bandwidth. The NUMA-Q Teraplex will focus on IBM DB2 and Oracle databases. NUMA-Q is a leading platform for large scale Oracle database solutions. The DB2 Universal Database port for NUMA-Q is currently in Beta testing with select customers and will be generally available in the first quarter of 2000.
The NUMA-Q Teraplex will also feature NUMACenter systems, running Windows NT and Unix on a single managed server platform - a key benefit for Business Intelligence (BI) systems that support operational CRM and e-business solutions with Windows NT-based applications requiring very large database support.
For more information, see http://www.ibm.com/servers.