IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition 5.0

IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition 5.0 ... manages all your data much more powerfully. DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition brings to bear industrial-strength database management for data warehousing, decision support, data mining, financial modeling, and line-of-business OLTP applications.

To satisfy the needs of your most complex decision support and data warehousing applications, IBM has extended the rich feature set of DB2 Universal Database to deliver parallel power to your entire enterprise. This enables you to confidently run those killer queries that other systems can't handle. And it makes almost any query run faster, so you can get results sooner and reach business conclusions way ahead of the competition. Best of all, DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition won't slow when you grow. Its performance scales in a near-linear fashion to hundreds of processor nodes and terabytes of data. With this powerful package, you can obtain, for the first time, scalable parallel processing capabilities together with object-relational functionality. As your information warehousing, information mining, and other business intelligence programs expand, users will be able to access and manage unstructured data such as text, audio, video, and images. And in true universal, enterprise fashion, you can extend your DB2 information warehouse over the Internet, intranets, and extranets to empower distributed and mobile employees, business partners, and customers.