At Information On Demand 2009 IBM unveiled a broad expansion of its analytics portfolio, including new capabilities customers can use to mine vast amounts of data and content, get faster and more accurate insights, and make smarter business decisions.

Direct SQL access to IMS data. IMS Connect enhancements for simplified access to IMS transactions and data. Java support that expands the universe of developers you can tap to build IMS applications. These are just some of the new capabilities that make IBM IMS™ 11 more accessible to a broader range of IT technologies and users.

Up to now, transparent application scaling – scaling without application changes – was available on the mainframe only. Now IBM DB2® pureScale™ technology brings true transparent application scaling to distributed platforms – and satisfies your current and future business needs for continuous availability.

Learn more about DB2 pureScale.

The IBM Smart Archiving Strategy helps you extract new value and intelligence from data and content, plus meet ever-increasing requirements for data and content retention – all while driving down risk, cost and complexity.

Read the Smart Archiving Strategy brochure.

IBM Information Management and IBM Business Partners have teamed up to create the Information Agenda Catalog – a comprehensive index of industry-specific solutions that address your most pressing IT and business challenges, and help make your business smarter.