Introduction
For this module I will be preparing a report for my boss who has expressed interest in purchasing a business intelligence system for my business. I will be addressing the following questions that she has addressed and they are as follows: how will business intelligence software help our business? What sort of information and analysis capabilities does it provide? What hardware and system software are required to run the application? And last I will be listing some of the major vendors and my evaluation of their products.
Topics of Discussion
I have looked into the systems that you express interest in and they are IBM, Microsoft, SAP and Oracle. First I found the IBM DB2 Warehouse features a set of extreme workload management capabilities that can enable real-time delivery of business insight while continuing to support all the traditional needs. However with traditional date server solutions, it’s difficult to deliver information in real time to a broad set of users and applications because more users running queries simultaneously puts a technological strain on the underlying infrastructure (November, 2007).
On the other hand SAP is the leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications in the world and with the new software system, it’s designed to ease installation and heighten usability. In order to improve integration of the product, the company built the offering around its NetWeaver infrastructure software, which is meant to help SAP’s customers blend the company’s business applications with other technologies. In fact as SAP has developed this whole integrated suite of business applications, customers have seen ...