Thoughts on DB2
In his latest article for Database Journal Julian Stuhler shares his pick of the most important current trends in the world of IBM Information Management. Some are completely new and some are evolutions of existing technologies, and he’s betting that every one of them will have some sort of impact on data management professionals during the next 12-18 months. Click here for the full article.
In his recent IOD 2009 blog posts Julian talked about IBM’s new Information-Led Transformation and Business Analytics strategy. In a continuation of their commitment to this, IBM have opened a new Analytics Solution Centre in London.
The initial focus will be on helping the UK Financial Services Sector to develop systems that provide improved visibility and tracking of risk positions across markets and asset classes as well as to drive information management to support improved client satisfaction and cost efficiencies.
Want to know about the fundamentals of Information Management for midsize organisations? Click here to view a range of informative videos from IBM which run through everything from “What is Information Management?” to “What is Master Data Management?” and “The symptoms of poor Data Management”.
It’s your last chance to book your place on the upcoming “Managing the financial services data explosion” webinar on 9th July.
This free webinar will be run by IBM Data Champion and Gold Consultant, Julian Stuhler and will feature a Q&A session with Andrew Crouch of AVIVA on his prespective on implmenting a data archiving solution.
Post your questions for Andrew and Julian and get your questions answered…
Part 1 – Modifying settings, setting up alerts and using System Health data views
Performance monitoring and tuning are critical tasks for a database administrator (DBA). DB2® Performance Expert helps DBAs tackle immediate performance problems, as well as avoid problems in the future.
Julian Stuhler, President of the International DB2 User Group (IDUG) and Triton Consulting Solutions Delivery Director, talks to Scott Laningham of IBM Developerworks about the IDUG mission, benefits and events and how IDUG stands out from other user groups.
With IOD EMEA coming up up in June, IBM are producing a lot of collateral on the subject of the Information Agenda. In this video Ambuj Goyal discusses how the Information Agenda accelerates your ability to share and deliver trusted information across all applications and processes.
In this video from Silicon.com, Jonathan Steer, CEO of technology researchers The Bathwick Group discusses their findings from silicon.com’s management benchmark survey.
A massive 2/3 of respondents felt that their current information systems were not adequate to meet business needs and the key challenges of information management highlighted were:
1. Managing multiple data sources
2. Capturing data
3. Reporting for compliace
However, on the plus side the benefits of good information management are:
1. Profitablility
2. Cost Reduction
3. The ability to sell more through better customer insight
Welcome to the Triton Blog. Here you’ll be able to find posts covering all manner of DB2 and Information Management related topics. Our team of consultants will be blogging on a regular basis to bring you their thoughts, tips and insight into the world of DB2.
I will be putting up a couple of posts later in the week and from then on a new blog will be appearing every week so make sure you keep checking in for the latest installment.
