Analyst Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies writes about the enhanced role of transactional DBMS systems in today's world of Big Data. Learn more about how Big Data provides richer transactional data and how that data is captured and analyzed to meet tomorrow’s business needs. Register to access the report now.

You need a database designed to control both the infrastructure and personnel costs that form the IT budget. The next generation of IBM DB2 helps organizations get more value from their big data to improve their IT economics. Major innovations provide out-of-the-box performance gains that go beyond the limitations of in-memory-only systems to support decision making at the speed of business.

The Harvard research assessment reports findings from three customer interviews and addresses the four most common use cases for databases serving Big Data requirements. Access the report to learn how IBM DB2 addresses: General analytics and reporting; Mixed workload environments; SAP BW environments and Cognos ROLAP dynamic cube type applications.

This report compares the three-year cost of downtime for mission-critical transaction processing systems for IBM DB2 10.5 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 showing distinct IBM advantages.

This e-book outlines the components of IBM InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration, and describes how its combination of tools and expertise provides an exceptionally deep and feature-rich platform upon which your organization can transform and deliver its data.

Ziff Davis recently surveyed 302 IT professionals to gain insight into their big data and analytics strategies. The survey revealed that many organizations were struggling to move from planning phases to execution and suggested a number of possible pain points around big data initiatives.

IBM is at the forefront of bringing big data to midsize businesses. With business analytics software solutions that are robust, easy to use, and accessible to all users across an organization, you place the right tools in the hands of users who need it the most. Learn how IBM can help any business take a smarter approach to analytics and data-driven management with easy to use and powerful solutions built around IBM Cognos® and IBM SPSS software.

Ziff Davis recently surveyed over 300 IT professionals on the state of big data and analytics initiatives in their organizations. The results tell a compelling story: while most IT pros understand the value of big data, actually operationalizing their analytics strategies to deliver usable insights to their organizations remains a challenge.

Ziff Davis asked its diverse audience of IT professionals and decision makers to provide their insights on these questions and help us get a better picture of the state of analytics among real companies. Ziff Davis conducted a broad, big data analytics survey, asking readers questions relating to the current status of their data initiatives, their infrastructure to support analytics, and much more.

The latest generation of IBM Power Systems, with POWER8 technology, is the first family of systems built with innovations that transform the power of big data and analytics, mobile, and cloud into competitive advantages in ways never before possible, putting data to work for you.