(Catherine Dalzell) R is a flexible programming language designed to facilitate exploratory data analysis, classical statistical tests, and high-level graphics. With its rich and ever-expanding library of packages, R is on the leading edge of development in statistics, data analytics, and data minin

Tim Vincent, IBM Fellow, vice president, and CTO, IBM Information Management, and Paul Zikopoulos, Information Management WW technical sales, WW Competitive Database and Optimized Systems, discuss IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration database innovation in part 2 of this video series.

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(Dave Beulke) As a consultant over the years, I have seen the characteristics of a number of shops and discovered there are many different ways to develop, support, and get the best DB2 performance tuning out of a variety of situations. I believe the most important component of successful DB2 perfo

(Rajath Ramesh and Manjunatha D) IBM WebSphere Cast Iron introduced two activities, Read JSON and Write JSON to work with JSON data. Part 1 of this 3-part series showed how to configure JSON handling activities to invoke JSON-based REST APIs and to create your own. Part 2 shows how to build an orche

(Troy Coleman) Recently, I downloaded and installed Data Studio 4.1 with the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) plug-in. I was going to write about using this solution to create a database connection, but it turns out that this topic is already well covered by David Simpson. Check out this terrifi

Martin Wildberger, vice president of Information Management Development at IBM, provides an overview of the extraordinary

(Nikunja B Das and Venkata S Vanukuru) DB2 Text Search enables DB2 database applications to perform full text-search by using embedded full text-search clauses in SQL and XQuery statements. This allows you to create powerful text-retrieval programs.

(Chris Eaton) I’ve written about DB2 10.5 BLU Acceleration already (and lots more to come) but I wanted to write about a combined solution that IBM is now calling “Fast on Fast”. As mentioned in my previous blog, BLU Acceleration can make analytic queries run significantly faster by using dynamic in

(Jason Tavoularis and Marcela Adan) IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) helps you make better and smarter business decisions faster. Advanced visualization capabilities bring your data to life, and you can consume your Cognos BI reports, scorecards, and dashboards through Internet browsers and mob