What is the Value of an IBM Balanced Warehouse™ What is the Value of an IBM Balanced Warehouse™? A: A ‘Ready-to-Go’ Warehouse that is Simple, Flexible and Optimized Simple: Reduced Complexity: Ships configured and ‘Ready to go’ Pre-tested: Validated by IBM Full integration: High Performance DB2 Warehouse delivered ‘load ready’ Predictable, modular growth through the usage of BCU1 One number: Single point of contact for all support issues2 Flexible Modular scalability: Grows with your demands, not your vendor’s Open and Reusable: Ensures that you are not locked in to proprietary limitations Spectrum of offerings: Multiple on-ramps to warehousing Ability to plan for and price the growth of your company’s warehousing needs Optimized: IBM Balanced Warehouse solutions are thoroughly tested and tuned for performance Solutions developed through IBM Best Practices of successful client implementations Low Risk: Guaranteed performance Today we’re going to talk to you about how organizations can start accelerating the creation of business insights to get more value out of their information with dynamic warehousing. But before we start explaining what we mean by dynamic warehousing, we’ll talk about the value of information and some of the challenges organizations are facing today. Then we can tell you about some of the new offerings from IBM that will help organizations deliver dynamic warehousing capabilities. 1 C-Class offerings do not scale through the addition of BCUs due to their specialized form factor, targeting smaller installations. 2 C-Class offerings are supported through associated reseller/distributor service agreements