IDUG hosted a Special Meeting of the BI & Warehousing User Group within the International DB2 User Group Europe Conference which also gave access for the participants to visit the Conference Solutions Centre. The demo area included all aspects of DB2.
Colin Taylor, SWG Team Pre Sales Manager of IBM’s Business Intelligence and Warehousing and also IBM’s Liasion to International DB2 User Group (IDUG) and Guide Share Europe (GSE). Colin, acting Chairman for this meeting introduced himself and thanked the attendees for their support. He explained his enthusiasm for User Groups, and how they are beneficial to all involved Customers, Business Partners and IBM.
Jacqueline Bloemen of Beks Consulting & Peter Clausen, Principle Solution
Specialist at Cognos presented a Customer solution using Cognos 8 with DB2 Cube
Views. Jacqueline gave a brief overview of their CPM solution and Peter demoed
the Cognos 8 product.
This presentation was warmly received and stimulated much discussion.
Attachment:
BI UG Cognos 8 & DB2.pdf
Holger Kollenbroich of Bayer, Germany - presented eXIP - eXecutive Interactve
Portal. Holger explained the creation of this Management Information System they
had developed based on Portals and used within Bayer to provide Executive
Management with BI.
Holger demonstrated the effectiveness and value of web deployed BI for Senior
Management.
Attachment:
Präsentation eXIP (05).pdf
Jim Lyon, IBM’s Industry Solutions Specialist. Jim has worked in the Financial
Services Sector for some years now and presented on the evolution of IBM’s
Industry and Financial Data Models. Following this presentation there was some
discussion of the combined value of the Industry Solutions with DB2 and Cube
Views - as presented by Jacqueline & Peter.
Attachment:
Industry Solutions.pdf
Simon Woodcock, IBM’s Consultant BI Specialist told some Customer stories
including a UK eMail Service Provider, the growth of the company from 2003 and
the re-architecture necessary for the future of the business. A second example
he gave was of Sprint PCS, a major telecommunications company in the USA. Simon
explained his involvement in loading more data than he’s experienced before and
the use of BCU in the latest solutions. (BCU was covered in more detail in
Simon’s second presentation). The scale of the installations discussed by Simon
aroused much interest.
Attachment:
Cust exp SW.pdf
Martin Pozdilek, MF Servis, works for a Services Company in the Chez Republic in
which they support Business Solutions. Martin gave an overview of a large
chemical company to which they gave a solution to their customer’s problem and
reducing their report time from one day to minutes! It was clear to all that
Martin had a very happy customer.
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Jared Yabanci, IBM Techncial Sales in Germany explained the importance of Data
Integration & Data Quality. He also overviewed the architecture within Quality
Stage and an additional Article is attached. The audience appreciated a very
comprehensive presentation.
Attachment:
Enterprise Data Integration.pdf &
Probabilistic algorithm.pdf
Simon Woodcock gave an update from our last meeting on BCU. Progress has been
made on The Balanced Configuration Unit since then, both on AIX and the new
Linux Version. All could see the value of this approach to simplifying the
acquisition and implementation of a Datawarehouse. Colin agreed to look into
ways that IBM could better support users in taking this up.
Attachment:
BCU Update.pdf
George Baklarz, IBM WW Sales & DB2 Distributed Support. George gave a DB2 UDB
Technology Update and covered XML, Easier Maintenance, partitioning, more
security, SQL features and database design. There was some lively discussion
about the details of specific capabilities and the timescale for development.
Attachment:
DW-DB2-Trends.pdf
Colin Taylor closed the meeting thanking all the participants for attending and
their interaction during the sessions and the breaks.