You face a high data volume, you suffer from mostly unstructured data and would like to know more from your files? You plan to

• select
• classify
• analyze

information – in brief: you would like to have your questions answered but you have no idea

• which data you have
• where they are and
• how you can use them?

Most likely this is a job for IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing!

But what or who is IBM Watson? If you are thinking about Watson you might think of the fictional character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyles detective stories. IBM Watson is not a character but both share the same habit – to assist somebody and to find solutions for problems. In the novel Dr. Watson supports Sherlock Holmes, today IBM Watson supports IT users – therefore YOU!

IBM Watson is an integrated platform including tools and services which enable you

• to prepare
• analyze and
• evaluate data

IBM Watson is part of IBM’s cloud offering Blue Mix. Blue Mix includes

• infrastructure
• software and
• service offerings

for different fields (eg. Security, Data & Analytics, Internet of Things …).

In total there are more than 100 offers - even programming languages for application development. IBM Watson is a cloud based service and part of Blue Mix. For preparation and analytics of data users can select between IBM Watson Analytics and IBM Watson Explorer – depending from the amount of data to be analyzed, the requirements and the existing budget.

• What makes the difference between IBM Watson and other offered IBM analytic tools?
• Which tool is the most suitable one for your requirements?
• Who in your company should work with analytics tools?

There are especially user friendly tools for the average people in your department which supports rapidly, in natural speech and without any expert needed (eg IBM Watson Analytics). Sufficient for many cases – but if required more you can select more capable but also more complex IBM analytics solutions (eg IBM Watson Explorer).

We support you to ask the right questions from the beginning on, to define your requirements and to offer the suitable IBM analytics opportunities. hamburg data benefits from it's partner status and the connections to IBM representatives in the fields of IBM Watson/Internet of Things und Industry 4.0.

If you need orientation and deeper insights in the structure, opportunities and capabilities of IBMs analytic offerings in the field of IBM Watson/Internet of Things und Industry 4.0. contact us. We are your pathfinder and help you to initiate your IBM Watson/Cognitive Computing Project.

Project consultation

A project is a complex issue – especially in the field of IT. Normally a platitude you would have thought … - as much more astonishing, that projects fail due to the same failures responsible for lots of projects crashes before. Why? Possibly because no one cares about the so called "irrelevant" details which might go sometime, somehow …?

A long time ago Henry Royce said that details do not create perfection, but perfection is no detail! In any case the most important questions should be answered before the project starts.

• What is our goal?
• Where are our actual bottlenecks?
• Which alternatives do we have? Which are our requirements?
• What about the time schedule?
• And the costs?
• Who is responsible for what?
• What’s up with the communication flow?

Related to IBM Watson we can answer some of these questions, for others we can deliver information and some we can’t answer because we do not belong to your company. These questions must be processed by your decision makers.

But we can help you function as a „pathfinder“ and support you:

• doing the evaluation of your system environment
• finding out the actual bottlenecks and consequences
• creating a requirement specification
• asking relevant questions
• seaching, analysing and selecting products and solution alternatives
• finding out preconditions
• informing about budgets and licensing
• selecting experienced experts for implementation tasks

We will support you at an early stage in order make sure that your IBM Watson/Cognitive Computing project will be realized successfully – without any extra and needless time and financial Investments.

You plan to install a new version of the Informix database server? You are going to change soft – and hardware components at the same time? You would like to replace your current database by an Informix database server?

In this case you have to migrate your data. The effort depends from a lot of different aspects e.g. the:

• Actual version of the database server
• Architecture and configuration of the system environment
• Integration of third party software
• Size of the database

On behalf of your clients the impact of the migration has to be minimized. hamburg data supports you in this challenge. We offer the following services:

• Inventory of your Informix environment
• Enrollment of the new systems requirements
• Evaluation of the access paths of your clients
• Definition of a time schedule
• Selection of the most suitable migration type
• Selection of the most suitable migration tool
• Planning of migration activities
• Check of system and data consistency after finishing the migration

In conjunction with you hamburg data modulates the sizing, approach and time schedule of the planed Informix migration. Contact us on time. After the evaluation of the elementary requirements we submit you a detailed offer.

Manufacturing, IT and Internet melt increasingly and Informix is there!

Factories become “smarter”. People, machines and products exchange information in real time and optimize production flows, quality and costs. Software analyzes data in real time, identifies specific error patterns and locates problems. This kind of interaction between different fields of activity is known under “Industry 4.0“. Which role plays Informix in this context? Informix offers the base for the activity analysis - Informix TimeSeries!

Example: You are a producer. You have to avoid downtime of your machines because of financial losses. Consequently you have to collect the machine data steadily and maintain your infrastructure predictive. To realize this goal you have to gather your data in real time, completely and reliable. Informix is perfect for this. Why? Informix offers a unique selling point – compared with other competitors Informix provides a specific data type managing time series data in a very fast and space efficient way – Informix TimeSeries!

Your benefits:

• Fast – data access is extremely fast due to a specifically used data type – acceleration: factor 10 - 10000
• Efficient – extremely small space required - reductions up to 60 % (compared with relational databases) possible
• Cost free - Informix TimeSeries is included in all actual available Informix editions
• Flexible – lots of time series related APIs for programming are available

If you offer measurement and control technology, or collect and analyze production-, machine-, and energy data or check materials and qualities then Informix TimeSeries is a "Must" for your company!

Consultancy

You have a problem or an idea to collect, analyze and store data in real time? We listen to you and find out if and how Informix TimeSeries can help you. It is our goal to support you in planning and decision making of your TimeSeries project. We will do this at an early stage in order make sure that your TimeSeries project will be realized successfully – without any extra time and financial investments.
hamburg data supports you in a concrete way to realize „your“ individual TimeSeries project and:

• evaluates your system environment
• performs a problem analysis
• prepares a requirement profile
• finds out essential issues
• takes into consideration given/required pre conditions
• infoms you about budgeting & licensing
• gives you a prospect

Implementation

As soon as suitability, requirements and goals of your TimeSeries project has been checked hamburg data supports you in the implementation process as follows:

• preparation of db scheme
• selection of suitable TimeSeries type
• implementation of TimeSeries elements & objects
• selection and implementation of data loads
• programming of statements
• TimeSeries VTIs
• Space requirements of tables, indices and time series

Basing on an estimation of the expected workload we submit you a detailed offer.

You feel that the performance of your IBM Informix database is poor, your data transfer rate low, your response time to long and your downtime to cost intensive? If so it is high time to have a look for the reason(s)!

Better to do this in advance – before you will suffer from the above mentioned problems – e. g. if you expect an increase of data and need more performance in the future.

We support you using a standardized, time and cost efficient database analysis comprising the following criteria:

• System Configuration
• Disk Layout
• Response times

After the finalization of the IBM Informix database analysis you receive a report summarizing results and suggestions for a database optimization which can be carried out by your administrators.

Of course alternatively we can overtake the database optimization task following strictly the report results. If you select this option we will provide you with a corresponding quote.

Please contact us!