IBM hosted a great dinner last night for Boulder BI Brain Trust members at
Brasserie Ten Ten in Boulder. It was a great way to kick off the meeting and carried over to a full house here this morning. Arrive early or you have to stand in the corner. 15 people attending today a great turnout from IBM and the Brain Trust.
The first theme is that IBM has been strategic in their M&A process. I think this is important to point out because I saw a lot of comments out there prior to the Cognos acquisition that IBM wasn't doing solid deals or enough deals. I think the following image does a good job of illustrating how well they have done.
Skip ahead 90 minutes.....
So the image and paragraph above I wrote over an hour ago since then I've been listening as Bill O’Connell, Ph.D. and Distinguished Engineer & Data Warehousing CTO for IBM Information Management Software walk us through a good portion of the IBM Data Warehouse Stack. I have to admit my mind has melted a bit but in a good way. I have always been a champion of the little guy especially those who deliver innovative solutions and generally I don't see a lot of innovation when talking to companies that are dragging around a ton of legacy solutions wrapped into a monster stack. Bill has done a great job of showing exactly how IBM isn't a lumbering giant.
The acquisitions listed above along with innovations from IBM labs have provided just about everything you might need for your organization. The blend of features, solutions and platforms are designed to fit just about every business challenge. Also they have the ability to serve smaller companies so don't think your too small to have IBM help you. I think the underlying theme for me is every time Bill talks about a new section of the solution stack he is able to highlight recent innovations, upgrades and increased integration of features.
I enjoy these deep dives it allows a level of detail that I can't get during a 30 minute update style briefing.
BI Brain Trust members in attendance today: Claudia Imhoff, Colin White, John Myers, Bonnie O'Neil, Lu
Kroeger, Dan Linstedt, Richard Hackathorn, Myself, Ron Powell, James Donnellan, Kym Wootton.
Tags:
Business Intelligence,
IBM,
InfoSphere Warehouse,
Cognos
