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Welcome to…
The Future of Analytics In Action
IBM Cloud Data Services
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Goals for Today
•  Share the cloud-based data management and analytics technologies that
are enabling rapid development of new mobile applications
•  Discuss examples of how these technologies are being applied to
transform a diverse set of industries
•  Hear from you about your most pressing challenges to harness the data
you have to provide additional value for your customers
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Today’s Agenda
8:30 am to 9:00 am
9:00 am to 10:00 am
10:00 am to 10:30 am
10:30 am to 10:45 am
10:45 to 11:15 am
11:15 to 11:45 am
11:45 am to 12:00 pm
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
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Registration and Continental Breakfast
The Future of Analytics in Action: The Art of the Possible
Demonstration
Break
Real World Insights: Morningstar & Cloudant
Open Q&A
Wrap-Up
Lunch and Networking
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The Future of Analytics In Action:
The Art of the Possible
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Why the Journey to Cloud-based Analytics?
FASTER
INNOVATION
BETTER IT
ECONOMICS
LOWER RISK OF
FAILURE
Instant provisioning
saves weeks of data
center setup
Pay as you go with no
big up-front capital
investments
Fully managed 24x7
so you can focus on
new development
MISSION
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To provide the best experience for developers with a
comprehensive set of rich, integrated cloud data
services covering content, data and analytics.
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The Future of Analytics – From Our DBaaS Offerings…
Transactional DBaaS
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Analytic DBaaS
Cloudant
SQL DB
dashDB
BigInsights on Cloud
NoSQL DBaaS
Relational DBaaS
Relational Data Mart
Enterprise
Hadoop
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IBM voted #1 cloud provider by enterprise users
“Who would you choose as your cloud provider?”
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft
IBM
Based on an April 2015 451 Research survey of more than 2,000 enterprise cloud users - commissioned by Microsoft
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The IBM Cloud
§  IBM SoftLayer Cloud Layer
§  “Bare-metal” consistently outperforms virtualized
-  Faster, more consistent so you can do more with less
SoftLayer
§  Dedicated hardware
§  40 data centers worldwide
AWS
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IBM BlueMix
Bluemix is an open-standard, cloud-based platform for
building, managing, and running applications of all types
(web, mobile, big data, new smart devices, and so on).
Go Live in Seconds
The developer can choose
any language runtime or
bring their own. Zero to
production in one command.
APIs and Services
A catalog of IBM, third party,
and open source API services
allow the developer to stitch an
application together in minutes.
On-Prem Integration
Build hybrid environments.
Connect to on-premise assets
plus other public and private
clouds.
DevOps
Development, monitoring,
deployment, and logging tools
allow the developer to run the
entire application.
Layered Security
IBM secures the platform and
infrastructure and provides
you with the tools to secure
your apps.
Flexible Pricing
Sign up in minutes. Pay as
you go and subscription
models offer choice and
flexibility.
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IBM can help your organization deliver new insights at
every level, and in every department, in your organization.
Have real time visibility
into stock levels
Optmize staffing mix,
reduce employee turnover
Operations
Human
Resources
Reduce churn
by knowing what the
cusotmers are saying
Product
Development
Customer
Service
IT
Sales
Access key customer
information in the office and
on the road
Marketing
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Work on scenarios to
align development
resources
Combine personal and
corporate data to create fresh
insights
Provide discovery and
planning tools to reduce errorFinance
prone spreadsheet work
Drive growth and profit through
resource alllocation
Manage rolling
comply with confidence
expenses
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IBM’s Latest Cloud Analytics Offerings and How
They’re Changing Analytics & Data Management
for our Clients Today.
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IBM Cloudant
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IBM Cloudant
§  Cloudant is a data management solution that
leverages the availability, elasticity, and
reach of the cloud to create a global data
delivery network that enables applications to
scale larger and remain available to users
wherever they are.
For apps that need:
²  Elastic scalability
²  High availability
²  Data model flexibility
²  Data mobility
²  Text search
²  Geospatial
Available as:
²  Fully managed DBaaS
²  On-premises private cloud
²  Hybrid architecture
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IBM Cloudant – Supporting Applications at Web Scale
§  Cloudant helps make your web and mobile applications more scalable and more available
to users wherever they are
•  Operational JSON NoSQL data store
Powerful DBaaS
With custom coding that enables unique data
needs to be developed in days, not weeks
•  RESTful CouchDB API
•  Advanced APIs
•  Replication & Sync
•  Incremental MapReduce
•  Geospatial
•  Lucene Full-text Search
•  Scalable, Highly Available Performance with
cross-data center data distribution & fail over
•  Geo load balancing
•  Offline access to the data
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•  Available as a fully managed cloud service and
an on-premises software product – enabling
hybrid deployments
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Payment Processor
leverages the advanced geospatial capabilities of Cloudant to
build a new mobile application
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The combination of Cloudant’s advanced geospatial
capabilities, security, and managed service give Comdata a
competitive advantage in terms of the experience they can
deliver to their end users
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Use Case: Comdata
Company Background
-  Payment processor and issuer of fleet fuel cards headquartered
in Tennessee.
Need
-  A mobile app that delivers a better experience for end users of
Comdata’s payment processing system.
Success Criteria
-  Show locations of vendors that use Comdata’s payment
processing, enable offline usage, and optimize routes.
-  Complete within 20 months
Solution & Results
-  A new mobile application launched in 9 months!
-  Advanced geospatial capabilities give Comdata a competitive
advantage
-  Cloudant’s managed service means Comdata can keep overhead
costs down
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20
months
9
months
-  Comdata avoids the costs, overhead, or latencies of ETL by with
the schema flexibility Cloudant’s JSON document store provides
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Use Case: Comdata - Reference Architecture
Mobile
Devices
Local
Storage
MobileFirst on
Softlayer
Cloudant
User profiles, preferences,
point of interest, etc.
MobileFirst
adapter
Geolocation information originally
stored in DB2
Comdata Firewall
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Relational
Database
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An Insurance Company
uses Cloudant Local to create a persistent data store to manage
customer policy information.
Having a need to have real-time visibility to customer data from
different Systems of Record, the Insurance Company values
Cloudant’s ability to manage data from different systems and
navigate the data with embedded search capabilities.
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IBM Internal Use Only
Use Case: Insurance Company
Company Background
-  Global insurance company with annual revenues of over $40B and
locations in the US, Europe, Latin America, China, and more
Need
-  Improve customer experience for roughly 40 million customers by
enabling the ability to efficiently search all data such as: personal
information, policies, claims, etc.
Success Criteria
Cloudant Managed or
Local deployment
-  To manage and search data from different Systems of Records without
having to design a web app with a schema-first mentality
-  A solution that can be managed on-premises for sensitive customer
information but still have the ability to move to the Cloud in the future
Solution & Results
-  Implemented Cloudant Local on-premises and then will move some
applications to a public cloud deployment
-  Provided the ability to manage all the data in one location while enabling
the full-text search capabilities
•  Previously, the company struggled using SOLR with their existing solutions.
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JSON
Auto
Policy
JSON
Life
Policy
JSON
Home
Policy
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IBM dashDB
§  Fast, fully managed, cloud data
warehouse that leverages integrated
analytics to deliver answers as fast as
you can think. dashDB’s unique built-in
analytics, R predictive modeling and
business intelligence tools free you to
analyze your data to get precise
insights, quicker.
§  Built-in performance with in-memory
technology
§  Predictive modeling built into the
database (linear regression, k-means
clustering, Esri compatible, and more)
§  Works with an ecosystem of apps and
tools
§  Integrated security and maintenance
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The Future of Cloud Based Analytics: A foundation with
dashDB
§  Fully managed data warehouse in the cloud
§  In-memory acceleration capabilities with
columnar technology, advanced compression,
and buffer pool technology
§  In-database predictive analytics & R-support
§  Integrated with Cloudant for analytics on JSON
data from web & mobile apps
§  True “Load & Go” approach – no need to
predefine indexes
§  Built-in Netezza analytic algorithms
Coming in 2Q!
§  Enhanced Netezza Compatibility
§  Oracle compatibility mode
§  MPP
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BLU !
Acceleration!
Netezza !
In-Database
Analytics!
Cloudant
Database !
as a Service!
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A Food Distributor
had been using Oracle but required better insight into streamlining sales
operations through their various channels/businesses
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IBM Internal Use Only
Use Case: Food Distributor
Company Background
-  An international food distributor with zero analytics or insight around
financial data from different areas of the business
Need
-  Required better insight into streamlining sales operations through
their various channels (consumer, wholesale, pet food, retail)]
Success Criteria
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- 
Traditionally, an Oracle Shop, but the marketing department
brought in and required integration with Tableau
Someone to perform rapid provisioning of the data warehouse on
the cloud without requiring any DBA expertise
Solution & Results
-  They were able to access the data seamlessly using Tableau.
-  Without a DBA, they were able to load data into the dashDB data
warehouse and used Watson Analytics in along with dashDB to
perform even deeper analytics
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Use Case: Food Distributor– Architecture Details
Softlayer Dallas
Public Cloud
The company’s team
created their own scripts
to load the data
Oracle database
environment
•  Arkansas
datacenter
•  Financial data
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Watson Analytics
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Watson Analytics
Single Interface … Explore > Predict > Assemble
Quick start
intuitive
interface
Guided
discovery &
visualization
Easy data
upload and
search
capabilities
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Key business
driver insights
Natural
language
dialogue
Dashboard
and
storytelling
authoring
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A Car Manufacturer
requires a data management or analytic solution to
understand campaign effectiveness.
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IBM Internal Use Only
Use Case: Car Manufacturer
Company Background
-  A multinational car manufacturer is equipping their 2015
and later models with an "interactive" infotainment system.
Need
-  A data management or analytic solution to understand
campaign effectiveness.
Success Criteria
-  Take unstructured data, automatically format it, and report
against it in the cloud, allowing the company’s marketing
team & merchants to segment customers and measure
campaign effectiveness.
Solution & Results
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-  Provisioned a prototype environment of dashDB with
Cloudant in 24 hours illustrating the speed and agility
possible
-  Flexibility and power of the IBM portfolio was critical for the
project’s success
-  The car manufacturer is getting a lot of value and analytics
from their infotainment systems.
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Use Case: Car Manufacturer– Architecture Details
Vehicle Data
-  Bulk load of 6-8 million
accounts, 28 millions
cars (~1TB of data)
-  Deltas continued to be
load for user/vehicle
Other Data Sources
data
IBM Datastage
-  Softlayer Dallas
-  Data movement into
SFDC and into dashDB
JSON data to relational
Cloudant Schema Discovery
Protocol
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IBM Cloudant
-  Softlayer Dallas
-  3 node production cluster
-  3 node dev cluster
IBM dashDB
-  Softlayer Dallas
-  4 TB production system
-  4 TB dev system
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IBM BigInsights on Cloud
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IBM BigInsights on Cloud
§  Provision enterprise-scale, multi-node
clusters on the cloud to meet your
business needs. Access your
provisioned clusters for simple
database transactions, to augment
your data warehouse, or to perform rich
analytics.. With BigInsights on Cloud,
our clients can manage less and
analyze more
§  For Production and POC deployments
at scale in the cloud
§  Delivers flexibility and efficiency with
subscription pricing
§  Scales to meet spikes in demand
without on-premise infrastructure
§  Drives enterprise-class, complex
analytics on Big Data sets
§  Available via the IBM Cloud
Marketplace and Bluemix
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BigInsights on Cloud – Enterprise Hadoop as a Service
Big Data – easier, faster, richer
IBM BigInsights Cloud
•  Analyze petabytes of any kind of data on
elastic compute clusters
•  Easy to integrate
•  Connect common 3rd party BI tools
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Enterprise Capabilities
•  Native Hadoop enriched with:
•  Faster performance
•  ~4x faster than open source Hadoop
•  Visualization tools
•  Built-in R, streaming & text analytics
•  Data protection & governance
Development Tools
Advanced Engines
Connectors
Workload Optimization
Administration & Security
Open
source
•  Easy to adopt
•  Provisioned, hosted, scaled for you
Visualization & Exploration
Open source
Hadoop components
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A Pharmaceutical Company
embarks on treatment analytics with an IBM cloud-based solution
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IBM Internal Use Only
Use Case: Pharmaceutical Company
Company Background
-  A globally distributed $10+ billion pharmaceutical company
Need
-  An analytics platform to execute against a time-sensitive project focused on the benefits of a
pharmacological treatment of obesity
-  Analysis to be performed on Electronic Medical Records (EMR) data that the organization owns, but
cannot fully analyze given system constraints.
Success Criteria
- 
- 
Apply big data technologies and analytical techniques without having to manage an analytical
environment on-premises
Gain the necessary insights regarding the relevance of pharmacological treatment of obesity, which
would allow the organization to build an economic model for obesity treatments.
Solution & Results
-  The environment was provisioned and made available to the customer in less than 48 hours to begin
executing against the project
-  An analysis to inform discussion about the relevance of pharmacological treatment of obesity, and to
obtain costs estimates to build an economic model for obesity treatments.
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IBM Cloud-based analytics summary
100s of Paying
Customers
Global
Operations
50,000+
Users
300% Growth
Y2Y
300+ CDS Team
Members
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What can you do now?
§ Go to bluemix.net and get an IBM ID to work with our Cloud Data
Services offerings and many other IBM cloud and SaaS offerings
§ Contact your IBM Analytics sales rep to secure a deeper discussion into
how our Cloud Data Services offerings can drive value and
transformative projects within your organization
§ Come find us at lunch J
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Questions?
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Demonstration
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Let’s Take a Break
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Real World Insights: Morningstar
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Data Pla<orm Enablement ©2015 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved. To create great products that help investors reach their financial goals. 43 Business View Research
Design
Technology
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47 Sources 48 Implementa7on Initial talks to major product shipment in record time
< 6 months
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Backup
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…To our Business Analytics and Intelligence Offerings
Predictive Analytics
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SPSS Modeler Gold
Social Media Analytics
Watson
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Watson Curator
Content Management
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Navigator
Risk
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Algo Managed Services
Algo Risk Content
Algo Risk Reports
Algo Risk Service
Algo Pension Monitoring
IBM Open Pages GRC
Business Intelligence
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Cognos Business Intelligence
Performance Management
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Cognos TM1
Cognos Concert
Cognos Disclosure Management
Cognos Quota Management
Cognos Territory Management
Cognos Incentive Management Compensation
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A Large Investment
Research & Management Firm
needed a persistent data store to maintain and access financial
analytical reports
Cloudant’s schema-less architecture and horizontal scalability
enables their users users to have real-time access to reports and
analytics generated by IBM PureData for Analytics
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IBM Internal Use Only
Use Case: Investment Research & Management Firm
Company Background
-  Global Investment & financial services research firm
Need
-  Provide real-time access to data for a new system of engagement
application for accessing and visualizing reports from Netezza
through a custom API
Success Criteria
-  Support for high volume of user concurrency – something a
warehouse environment like Netezza cannot provide
-  Integration with other IBM products – like Netezza
Solution & Results
-  Schema-less architecture enables the ability to store the data
without needing a schema definition prior to inserting the data from
Netezza.
-  Does not require time consuming schema changes when different
data must be captured and processed
-  With Cloudant, the firm is transforming how their users access data
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Extending your warehouse environment
5.
1. An end user requests a dataset
to be visualized by a Customer
Service.
4.
2. The request is processed
through a Customer API which
queries Netezza (or any other
data warehouse) for the
requested data.
Customer
API
3.
4.
1.
2.
3. Netezza returns the requested
dataset back to the Customer
API. 4. The Customer API internally prepares the data for visualization and storage by converting it
into JSON format. A small subset of the data will be sent to the calling application for
visualization while the full dataset will be persisted into Cloudant.
5. The initial requesting application can now query, page, sort, etc against the data in Cloudant
until they are finished.
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Use Case: Cloud Analytics for Web & Mobile
§  Build an app and analyze usage to:
Cloudant Sync
-  Understand user behavior
-  Increase monetization
§  Millions of users transact with
Cloudant via REST
(iOS & Android)
Data
Center 1
Continuous, filtered
replication & sync
(Active DR)
HTTPS
HTTPS
§  Off-line mobile data access enabled
by Cloudant Sync
Continuous, filtered
replication & sync
HTTPS
§  Perform analytics with dashDB
Data
Center 2
Continuous
sync
(Active DR)
-  Data is continuously synched
with Cloudant
-  Accessed by BI Tools such as
Watson Analytics via Dataworks
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Dataworks
dashDB
data mart
BI Tool
User
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Use Case: Cloud Analytics for Agility
§  How quickly can you
create a 1TB data mart?
Web & Mobile
users
-  Average Oracle &
Teradata data marts take
>50 days to implement
(ITG)
§  What are you spending
on QlikView per year?
-  Cloud faster, cheaper?
§  Equip users with dashDB
and Big Insights for
modern, agile analytics
SQL DB
Aggregations
Big Insights
on the Cloud
ODBC
dashDB
data mart
ODBC
BI Tool Users
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Use Case: Insurance Company – Architecture Details
3: Develop apps leveraging
Cloudant's API & enable
systems of engagement to
operate at webscale
2: Push 360o data to
Cloudant for mobile
workers
1: Cloudant JSON data
sent to Watson Explorer to
index
Watson
Explorer
Cloudant Managed or
Local deployment
JSON
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Auto
Policy
JSON
Home
Policy
JSON
Billing
Data
CRM
FILE SHARES
HTML
RDMS
SOCIAL
EMAIL
SHAREPOINT
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Use Case: Pharmaceutical Distributor – Deeper Look
New data warehouse environment.
-  Customer does not have an existing analytics / warehouse solution.
-  This is often coupled with lack of skills/resources, preference to opex
environments, needs something quickly, does not have 100+TB environment.
Extend / Modernize!
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• Extend on-premises data warehouse
environments to the cloud!
• Flexible, cost-effective growth!
• Hybrid cloud models support ground to cloud!
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Use Case: Food Distributor– Deeper Look
COMPLETE CLOUD BASED ANALYTICS
-  New analytics project that leverages our offerings, Cloudant, dashDB, and SaaS
based Analytics through Cognos.
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Cloudant Analytics!
• Easy synchronization of JSON to structured data!
• Allows analytics via standard BI tools!
• In-database predictive algorithms allow greater
insight for Cloudant users than ever before!
Data Warehouse &
Analytics Service!
• Data warehousing and analytics in the cloud!
• Cloud agility and flexibility!
• Analytics for cloud data, data marts, and
development & test environments!
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IBM Watson Analytics for smarter data discovery
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Use Case: Insurance Company – Deeper Look
TIME SENSITIVE ANALYTICS PROJECT:
Seasoned analytics and warehouse customer, but looking at new analytics project that must
get off the ground quickly. Time to value, speed, simplicity, reduced risk of project failure are
all important.
Data Warehouse
& Analytics
Service!
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• Data warehousing and analytics in the
cloud!
• Cloud agility and flexibility!
• Analytics for cloud data, data marts,
and development & test environments!
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Use Case: Pharmaceutical Distributor – Architecture Details
Pharma UK branch
Netezza
Rancho
Cordova,
USA
Infinium/
MBA
Montreal,
Canada
1
1
SAP
Stuttgart,
Germany
1
6
Softlayer Dallas
Private Network
2, 3
Information
Server
Tableau
Server
4
Softlayer Dallas
Public Cloud
5
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1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 
Connect to company
Extract from sources
Transform into target model
Load into warehouse
Analyze
Report & visualize
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