IBM Balanced Warehouse C1000, an information integration, content delivery, and reporting solution for the mid market from IBM and Business Objects combines IBM DB2 Warehouse Starter Edition, Crystal Reports Server from Business Objects, and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server in a pre-integrated, pre-tested solution with an easy, single install format.
C1000 offers a unique, simplified, and complete solution for mid sized companies that need to integrate multiple, scattered data resources into a scalable data warehouse. The reports can be delivered over the web or put in applications.
"Combining DB2 data server from IBM and Crystal Reports Server from Business Objects, C1000 provides an affordable data warehouse and reporting solution helping companies understand and improve operations, revenues, expense management, productivity, and much more," said Todd Rowe, Vice President and General Manager of mid market business, Business Objects.
According to the press release, IBM is also launching IBM Balanced Warehouse C3000. It will be supported by Business Objects through integration of Business Objects Crystal Decisions.
"IBM Balanced Warehouse C1000 and C3000 provide reliable, scalable data warehousing for any size implementation," said Karen Parrish, Vice President, IBM Business Intelligence Solutions.
C1000 is expected to be available by the end of March, 2007
This solution, available worldwide, was launched at the Gartner BI summit.