Integrated Systems mean Easier Deployment and Faster Performance

If you attended the 2009 IBM Information on Demand conference, you may have seen the following video. It focuses on how two IBM clients benefit from workload-optimized solutions from IBM. A workload-optimized solution is essentially a single system where all components (hardware, database software, reporting software, analytics software, etc.) come pre-configured and pre-integrated for optimized operation. IBM offers pre-configured and pre-integrated solutions for both OLTP and OLAP environments, with DB2 pureScale and IBM Smart Analytics System respectively.

Because these integrated systems come pre-configured for optimal performance, you don’t have to worry about integrating, balancing, and tuning the systems during deployment. This saves a lot of time, and ensures a faster time to value for the new system. Farmers Insurance estimate that they saved months of deployment time. Rooms To Go went from nothing to an entire system (extracting, transforming, loading, warehousing, and analyzing data) with dashboards in just two months.

Another benefit of these systems is improved performance. IBM tests and certifies the integrations, ensuring they are configured for optimal operation. IBM also uses established best practices to pre-tune the systems. When Farmers Insurance put their system in place, they immediately saw performance gains of 42%.