IBM Netezza Analytics

IBM Netezza Analytics is the platform of expanded analytics IBM Netezza which supports technology infrastructure for deployment of analytic functions in databases. The analytical platform integrates a full-fledged set of the built-in analytical means with the best analytical tools, such as R and Hadoop and also with the main solutions for management of IBM Netezza data warehouses. IBM Netezza laid the foundation for creation of modern solutions for management of data warehouses; its users felt real benefits from consolidation of a storage system and analytics in the single high-performance integrated system worldwide. IBM Netezza Analytics allows analytical divisions to get powerful benefits for business from new business models and helps the companies to try to obtain revenue growth from implementation and decrease in total cost of products.

IBM Netezza offers own convenient approach in application to serious analytics. Analytical models are usually created and unrolled on separate servers of analytics. At the same time total time from the beginning of work on model increases to its deployment. Besides, it is required to move data from storage or other data source on the analytics server. Such process not only too long, but also inefficient: it works not with all data types, limits the volume of analytical modeling and complicates accomplishment of iterative experimenting.

During the work with IBM Netezza analytical models can be created and unrolled directly in data warehouses. At the same time time spent for creation and deployment of analytical models at the enterprise is significantly reduced. Having reduced time from the beginning of work on model before its deployment, the companies can pass to adoption of the solutions relying on the facts, using in them the analytics on demand providing valuable knowledge more widely.

Each data warehouse of IBM Netezza is delivered with library of analytic functions in databases, access to which is provided through any SQL-the compatible interface. Customers can also develop new opportunities by means of the expansions of the platform determined by users. It is the simplest and open platform providing support of many tools, languages and structures.

IBM Netezza Analytics serves for:

• research and data retrieval;
• data translations;
• constructions of models;
• diagnostics of models;
• estimates of models.

For fast analytical processing with scaling options in IBM Netezza Analytics the powerful platform of parallel computings - the solution for management of IBM Netezza data warehouses is used. The architecture of asymmetric data processing which is its cornerstone with mass parallelism (AMPP) providing high high-speed performance and performance allows to execute analytical processing in the database as fast as possible and effectively. The architecture of AMPP represents stream architecture on the basis of blade servers in which blade servers of a commodity group and storage system are integrated with patent instruments of data filtering on the basis of programmable logic arrays of FPGA for creation of fast analytics on large volumes of data. IBM Netezza integrated all analytical transactions in one powerful and at the same time simple solution.

The solution IBM Netezza Analytics is created especially for simplification of process of creation and deployment of models at the analytical enterprises for which the highest performance when processing large volumes of difficult data is necessary.

Difficult analytics

The companies collect and trace more information, than earlier, and feel more and stronger need to work as it is possible more effectively and more productively. An opportunity to analyze given, induce to expect results in advance and to find ways of improvement of business the companies involving all potential of expanded analytics. Understand huge amounts of data, having turned them into intelligent results, very difficult, and in some cases it is even technically impossible if in the company traditional technologies of databases are used. These systems do not cope even with the growing number of users and amounts of data.

With the advent of the solution IBM Netezza Analytics the analytics which seemed improbable or almost impracticable earlier became possible. Applying approach on the basis of the simple solution IBM Netezza, it is possible to use all data of the organization for receiving more exact result set with which it will be easier for company to find new opportunities of income acquisition and to purchase competitive advantage. Use of expanded analytics in solutions on management of data warehouses of IBM Netezza will be profitable to all divisions of the organization - from financial groups, thematic departments, sales departments, services IT to the executive management. At the same time the transparency in scales of all company when all use the identical, i.e. available in the company all data increases.

When using IBM Netezza Analytics the organizations should not make the choice between large volumes of data and complexity of analytics any more.

Research of data

The solution IBM Netezza Analytics allows to be beyond a traditional business intelligence (BI) and specially developed reporting based on retrospective data and to learn new methods of value creation using data. Now the organizations have an opportunity to create and unroll difficult analytical models, more simply and effectively reflecting difficulties of objective reality. The organizations can constantly experiment, finish and configure analytical models that with their help to reveal trends and to find new ways of risk reduction for business, reduction of costs, increase in income, and to make the decisions relying on the facts. Study new methods of value creation using the available data, at the same time being engaged in parallel experimenting with models based on IBM Netezza Analytics. Instead of data samplings and the enlarged data it is possible to use all data now that allows to increase accuracy and to make more purposeful decisions.

Analytics on demand

Using IBM Netezza for forecasting, predesign and optimization of business elements, the organizations can be ahead of the competitors. Analytical process usually is expensive and labor-consuming: development of forecast model by data from storage requires, as a rule, several weeks. But even after creation of model it is necessary to spend several hours (and even days!) for accomplishment on all amount of data even if the expensive equipment will be purchased. The problem is aggravated also with growth of amounts of data. IBM Netezza provides to the companies fast payback of important initiatives of forecasting which positively affects indicators of profit and revenue growth. When using the solutions IBM Netezza of the organization will be armed with more exact intellectual functions for quick and sure response to any opportunities or threats arising in the market. Models can be unrolled quickly, configuring them as necessary and to extend at the same time in necessary quantity, taking advantages of IBM Netezza in-database technology with parallelism. In this case the largest volumes of data will be processed quickly and effectively. In conditions when the companies should be as much as possible flexible to react to change of the market situation and requirements, a user-friendly system which works with flash-like speed and analyzes petabyte amounts of data will be very useful^[1].

Convenience in work

The convenient solution in work for management of IBM Netezza data warehouses sharply accelerates all analytical process. Program interfaces and parameters of parallelization allow to transfer without effort to the solution the most part of analytics - both executed by means of IBM SPSS, SAS and R tools, and written in the Java™, Python™ and Fortran languages. Besides, solutions for management of data warehouses of IBM Netezza are delivered with the built-in library of the analytic functions with parallelism created especially for large volumes of data which allow to start and accelerate quickly development and deployment of any analytical application.

The solutions IBM Netezza are profitable distinguished from other products by convenience and simplicity of development. This first solution such in which the power and scalability of hundreds of processors is put in the architecture which is ideal for parallel analytical processing. Unlike traditional solutions from their analytics fragmented by infrastructure having in structure a set of systems in which replication of data is executed IBM Netezza Analytics integrates all analytical transactions in one powerful hardware and software system. It is easily unrolled and does not require special current administration, - and therefore has low total cost of ownership in general.

The success of implementation of analytics in scales of all company depends on simplification of processes of a research, calculations, modeling and assessment of data. During the work with the solutions IBM Netezza professionals from the sphere of business can carry out own analytical tasks almost in real time; as a result at all enterprise the decisions which are based on the data found with assistance of analytics will be made.

Be engaged in business, without thinking of process. Rely on the solution for management of IBM Netezza data warehouses, having provided it accomplishment of a hard task.

High performance

IBM Netezza created extremely flexible analytical platform offering high performance on petabyte amounts of data. Building in analytic functions data, developers of models and group of quantitative analysis have an opportunity to work with data directly in the solution, without unloading them in separate infrastructure; respectively, they will not need to carry out tasks of their preprocessing and conversion.

Thanks to opportunities of architecture of AMPP of the solutions IBM Netezza Analytics, analytics and developers of models can send the most advanced queries to all data of the enterprise without restrictions imposed by infrastructure. Experts specialists can quicker touch different models by search of the most suitable. The developed model can be executed over all relevant data of the enterprise imperceptibly for end users. For forecasting and assessment this it is not necessary to move on other place. Users receive results of projections almost in real time that allows to involve expanded analytics which will be available to all enterprise.

In the solution for management of data warehouses of IBM Netezza the FPGA programmable logic arrays programmed for effective processing of large volumes of data are used. These matrixes eliminate foreign data at the exit from a disk. Thereby bottlenecks of input-output are eliminated and components downstream unload, such as processor, storage systems and network, sharply increasing system performance.

Difficult bulky mathematical calculations are executed on powerful multi-core processors; primitives and difficult analytical transactions of databases are executed over the filtered data stream. Analytical tasks are started as the independent processes working with data streams on each S-Blade server. Using the power of all computing cores of the solution, the system of parallel analytical computings IBM Netezza offers the sufficient performance and scalability for difficult analytics.

Remove the obstacles for business created by traditional technologies, - use the solution IBM Netezza which will facilitate your task. When choosing IBM Netezza Analytics you receive the solution capable to manage all yours analytical requests on huge amounts of data, and advantages of the platform of the parallel processing which is the cornerstone of the solution which provides high performance. IBM Netezza proposes the simple solution for difficult analytics.

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