Re: Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing products

We use Showcase (including ESSBASE) on our iSeries (it's actually our
largest system) and we pull in data from non-iSeries sources.    We have
had pretty good results.  My opinion is that the most important thing is to
keep your data on the iSeries if at all possible.  That is where you get
90% of your bang.  Having the product run on the iSeries is nice but not
critical.  Just helps with scheduling and certain release support issues.

We are not current with releases (long story about a whiny BI
administrator) so I can't tell you about release 7.  It looks pretty good
though.

http://www.spss.com/showcase/

Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers
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Hi all,



I have been asked about iSeries' products for Business Intelligence and/or
Data Warehousing. I know of a couple, but my colleague wants to know about
any "multi-platform" product that allows accessing either iSeries or
Windows/Unix data.



Thanks for your help,



Luis Rodríguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries
Caracas, Venezuela



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