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Real-Time Analytical
Processing with
InfoSphere Streams
Why are
we willing to wait for actionable insight? How did we learn to
tolerate days, weeks, or months before we identify new opportunities, under-
stand the health of our businesses, or identify customer concerns with our
products and services? With the world speeding up, it is simply not accept-
able to wait any more. Just as IBM has delivered technology to uniquely
handle the largest analytical problems for
data at rest
with InfoSphere
BigInsights (BigInsights) and the IBM PureData System for Analytics (the
new IBM branding for Netezza announced in 4Q2012), IBM also delivers
the ability to derive value from data instantly with the analysis of
data in motion
.
Using BigInsights and any of the analytic-based IBM PureData Systems
gives you enormous capabilities when it comes to navigating the oceans of
information that are available to enterprises today, while IBM InfoSphere
Streams (Streams) gives you enormous insights from the rivers of data flowing
through your enterprise. You can choose to tap into those rivers to gain time-
sensitive competitive advantages for your business, or you can stand by
and watch the opportunities be washed away. This is where Streams
comes in. Its design lets you leverage massively parallel processing (MPP)
techniques to analyze data
while it is streaming by
,
so you can understand
what is happening in real time, and optionally take action, make better
decisions, and improve outcomes.
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