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Stepping up to REAL Business Intelligence • BENEFITS
– Reduced report maintenance – reduced IT Dependency• Take 100’s of Query/400 reports down to a HANDFUL• Improve productivity in report creation with meta data layer• Build data relationship rules into meta data (and not RPG code)
– Simplified Analysis of Query Environment• Leverage DB2 SQE analysis facilities, and Impact Analysis and Data
Profiling Tools in Developer workbench
– Improve productivity of Business Analysts• 80% or their time GATHERING data NOW goes to near ZERO• Analysts will “believe” the data by defining data standards within meta
– Do you want to download data into spreadsheets without jumping through hoops, as you do today with Query/400?
– Do you ever want to create a report with a graph or chart representation of the data without having to extract, download, import into some other tool?
– Do you ever want to get out of the business of maintaining 10's or 100's of query/400 reports to support the end user community?
– Do you ever want someone other than IT with deep database knowledge to be able to create/run reports?
– Are you already paying Microsoft or Business Objects or some other query tool vendor an annual SW Maintenance fee that is surely much more than DB2 WQ SW Maintenance?
– Would you like to be using a query tool that leverages the 8+ years of development effort we've made with DB2 query optimization (which query/400 cannot do)?
– Would you like a tool that you key executives will use that removes the perception of AS/400 as “old, green screen” technology?
• January: Run Time User Enablement– Significantly reduced pricing for DB2 Web Query for most scenarios involving more than a few
users
• March: Temporary Removal of SW Maintenance After License Fee “penalty”– Removes notion of a 90 day “grace” period – Sign up for SW Maintenance to get full IBM support
• Information Builders Press Release on agreement with IBM to enhance DB2 Web Query• http://www.informationbuilders.com/cgi-shell/press/intpr/f_intpr.pl?intpr_code=04_1_08_db2
• Partners growing the DB2 Web Query Tools Ecosystem
– Centerfield Technology introduces products and services for DB2 Web Query• http://www.centerfieldtechnology.com/wq_icv.asp
– Coglin Mill announces “Rodin DB2 Web Query Edition”• http://www.mcpressonline.com/software-news/query/business-intelligence/coglin-mill-releases-rodin-select-
editions-and-one-for-db2-web-query.html
– Databorough provides automated meta data creation and instant OLAP with x-WebQuery• http://www.databorough.com/xquery.htm
• DB2 Web Query Directions – http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/march08/features/19668p1.aspx
• How Run Time User Enablement Works – http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/db2/pdf/
DB2_Web_Query_Run_Time_User_Enablement.pdf
• Using SQL Views and Stored Procedures to control Security with DB2 Web Query– http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/whitepaper/i5os/
db2_sql/security
• DB2 Web Query Drill Downs– http://www.mcpressonline.com/db2/techtip-know-the-drill.html
• Maximizing DB2 Web Query with SQL Query Engine– http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/whitepaper/i5os/db2_sql/security
• Review Installation Instructions on “Getting Started” website:• http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/db2/webquery
• Download an installation pre-req utility– NEW utilities to check for all DB2 WQ Pre-Reqs
• IBM pre req checker: – http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/webquery/
DB2+Web+Query+for+i+Installation
• Centerfield Technologies: http://www.centerfieldtechnology.com/wq_icv.asp• Having trouble and don’t have SWMA? Send e-mail to [email protected]
• Consider Getting Started Lab Services– This service offering will help you get started with developing and running
reports using the New Web Query Tool. IBM experts will help you install the software, create and import meta data , help you import query/400 definitions and assist you in building reports using either the built in reporting features and/or the graphical assistance components allowing you to do drill downs.
• Excellent Date understanding and added functionality including Date decomposition (Year, Quarter, Month, Day)
• Creation of Hierarchies and Dimension
• Very good awareness of DB2 Foreign Key constraints
• Basic DB2 Web Query metadata also includes: Column-titles, Business Descriptions, Alias, Format, Usage, Pre and Post Processing Calculations, hundreds of data manipulation functions