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10.4.2.20 Decision optimization

IBM’s Decision Optimization Center provides a platform to help businesses solve difficult planning and scheduling

challenges with the use of analytics. Users describe a situation as an optimization model, using their data and

criteria, and Decision Optimization identifies the best solution. The service is based on a sophisticated analytics

technology, called Prescriptive Analytics (touted as the third and latest generation of analytics systems). This

service is useful in below use cases:

• What are the best actions to take to reduce predicted customer churn?

• What maintenance should we do to avoid the predicted failure in the machine?

• Given this customer’s past spending level and products purchased, which product should I offer to

cross-sell?

Features

• Decision Optimization uses the market-leading CPLEX Optimizers to solve real-world optimization

problems quickly and efficiently.

• Simply connect with APIs: Use a Decision Optimization API to submit an optimization problem, including

mathematical model and data, to the optimization engines. The API returns results to your application.

APIs are available in REST, Java,

, and Python.

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10.4.2.21 IBM Master Data Management on Cloud

This service offers the rich features of an on-premises IBM Master Data Management Advanced Edition

deployment without the cost, complexity, and risk of managing your own infrastructure. As the IBM MDM AE, is

multi-domain, and the MDM hub can be deployed in physical or virtual style.

Features

• Improved time to value: using this offering reduces the time required for provisioning and deploying MDM

by providing preinstalled MDM configurations for production and development MDM environments in an

IBM SoftLayer cloud-hosted environment.

• Flexible deployment: comes in Small, Medium, and Large configurations.

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10.4.2.22 IBM DB2 on Cloud

DB2 is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) originally introduced by IBM. DB2 is designed

to store, analyze and retrieve the data efficiently. DB2 product is extended with the support of Object-Oriented

features.

Features

• Securely Move Data on-premises to the DB2 instance on Cloud.

• Connectivity: Supports all native DB2 drivers, SQL, .NET, ODBC and JDBC. Compatible with Netezza

and Oracle. Supports backups to S3 and Swift object storage.