Next Meeting

Over the years IBM has done an impressive job of keeping the iSeries functionally "fresh," while protecting users' investment in legacy applications and skills. This is certainly the case in the area of Business Intelligence (BI). This presentation will review iSeries capabilities as a Business Intelligence platform. We'll begin with a survey of generic BI concepts and capabilities: query, OLAP (can you differentiate among the following OLAP flavors: MOLAP, ROLAP, HOLAP, DOLAP? there'll be a quiz!), data mining (do you know how NBA coaches use data mining technology? find out at this presentation!), data warehousing (do you know the difference between such data warehouse designs as star schema, snowflake, operational data store? come and find out!), and, ETL (Extract/Transform/Load). We'll then focus in on BI in the iSeries environment, with a look at the applicability of iSeries architecture to BI, DB2/400 as a BI Database (including some special BI-related functions), and analytical and ETL tools that work on (and with) the iSeries. We'll conclude with a quick look at the "lifecycle" of Business Intelligence solution development

August will be presenting