DB2 and E-Business
DB2 and E-Business As a core component of IBM's e-business cycle, DB2 is a catalyst for delivering applications that transform a company's operations (see Figure 1-2). Transform is the process that takes a business to an e-business; common applications in this area include electronic commerce, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM). Build is the process of exploiting the integrated Java and multimedia features of DB2. Run is the part of the e-business cycle that ensures performance and scalability; this is especially important with the new Internet-based companies. Finally, with respect to leveraging data assets, DB2 offers a variety of business intelligence tools to enable end users to make more effective business decisions. Figure 1-2. The e-business cycle. In leveraging information in an e-business environment, IBM's Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) provides a secure foundation for a single point of access to diverse information, business processes, and expertise. Figure 1-3 shows the high-level integration of the EIP. Today's high demand for complete and correlated information requires portal access not only to structured transactional and warehouse data, but also to a broader range of content, including XML, HTML, host computer-generated output, images, and audio/video. The IBM Enterprise Information Portal offers access to business data from sources such as spreadsheets, document libraries, company literature, databases, data warehouses, and unstructured information from Web pages. The information can also be searched using parametric or contextual search technologies, with results aggregated across multiple sources and relevant information presented in a context tailored to the user 's needs. Figure 1-3. IBM's Enterprise Information Portal.  |
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