IBM Expands Business Intelligence Initiative with NUMA-Q Teraplex Center for Data Warehousing
NUMA-Q brings 50 customers to IBM Terabyte Club
Somers, NY (November 29, 1999) – IBM today announced that it will expand its business intelligence (BI) initiative behind the newly acquired NUMA-Q® server brand with the development of a $13 million NUMA-Q Teraplex Integration Center, a comprehensive proof-of-concept center for BI solutions. The NUMA-Q server brand will have grown its BI-related revenue by 40% in 1999.
The NUMA-Q Teraplex Integration Center will open in the first quarter of Year 2000 to enable customers and business partners to plan, develop and proof BI solutions based on NUMA-Q servers. Teraplex consultants and engineers will provide customers with proven methodologies and intellectual capital to reduce risk and speed deployment of complex solutions that bring intelligence to e-business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems.
“Massively scalable BI solutions have become critical to many of our customers as they deploy next generation enterprise e-business and CRM systems,” said Ben Barnes, general manager of IBM Global Business Intelligence Solutions. “The NUMA-Q platform brings a new level of performance, scalability and manageability that strengthens our industry leading BI initiative. The more than fifty NUMA-Q data warehouses with greater than a terabyte of attached storage are a testament to the platform’s strong position in high-end of the BI market.”
Source: IBM