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Upgradation of Alphablox Analytics Software by IBM

December 19, 2005

IBM's business intelligence software that was acquisitioned last year has been upgraded by the software giant and has been decided to be used to enable real time analysis of the data.

IBM Alphablox V8.3 is designed to bring intelligence to "people at the point-of-decision in business relationships," IBM says. The software runs on Linux, Unix and Windows and features support for IBM's Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Portal Server.

IBM acquired Alphablox in July 2004, that is, last year. Alphablox was a privately held analytics vendor which was acquisitioned as part of a push to boost the business intelligence capabilities. IBM has since integrated Alphablox functionality into products including its DB2 Data Warehouse.

Alphablox is designed to let users tap interrelated customer, supplier and operational data. Improvements to V8.3 include better database access, cross-browser support, and first-time support for eight spoken languages. It also supports Cloudscape 10, IBM's Java-based embeddable database.

Source: Business Intelligence Pipeline