"Saving money on the total cost of ownership is very important, and IBM really came through with an unbeatable offer."
- Dr. Winfried Sturm, Network and Technical Systems Manager, Beiersdorf AG
"We [Deutsche Woolworth] embarked on a bold and strategic IT infrastructure project unifying domestic and international sourcing and streamlining global order management and logistics. This major initiative with IBM and TradeStone delivered immediate and significant return on investment."
- Hartwig Hopfenzitz, Chief Information Officer, Deutsche Woolworth GmbH & Co. OHG
"Its stability, TCO and speed of development convinced us we should not only maintain our mid-range environment, but expand it to keep it at the center of our operations."
- Ken Spangler, VP of IT, FedEx Ground
"The migration to DB2 was completed in three months. We estimate that database operational costs have been cut by 68 percent."
- Ralf Rohrer, Head of Server and Storage Operations, Industrielle Werke Basel
"The service and support from IBM Global Technology Services has been excellent, and the reduced total costs of ownership offered by SAP applications supported by DB2 allow us to meet our commitments to reducing corporate operating expenses."
- Joachim Wolf, Business Application Manager at Treofan
"We've found the IBM Balanced Warehouse to be perfect for consolidating information about how, for example, cancer and diabetes patients respond to different treatments given by healthcare facilities around the world. And the IBM Balanced Warehouse gives us a solid foundation for our analyses of how that data can help us save lives. The new versions of IBM Balanced Warehouse will continue to offer companies a cost-effective way to store and manage data, with premium high performance."
- Lambert Onuma, CEO, Convergence CT
"Now that we can store XML data directly on our IBM DB2 9 data server, we have been able to streamline access to medical records and improve care to our patients—all while reducing storage costs with the deep compression feature."
- Lee Hungu, Team Manager of Development Service Team, Catholic Medical Center
"With DB2 9, we’re seeing compression rates up to 83 percent on the data warehouse tables. The projected cost savings are more than US$2 million initially with ongoing savings of US$500,000 a year."
- Michael Henson, DB2 Unix Team Lead, Database Delivery Services, SunTrust Bank, Inc.
"We needed a database that represented the future and DB2 9 is the future. DB2 9 compression capabilities are key in helping reduce the size of our databases—in one case by up to 83 percent. This ultimately helps us minimize storage costs and increase performance."
- Jean Holley, CIO, Tellabs, Inc.
"With the pure XML support available in IBM DB2 9, it is far easier, faster and less expensive to run queries, share and retrieve data and make document changes in response to new business requirements without impacting applications."
- Thore Thomassen, Senior Enterprise Architect, Storebrand Group
"DB2 is incredibly reliable--we haven’t needed a full-time database administrator--and it represents a substantial cost saving compared to the Oracle database."
- Harry Bekkema, Application Team Lead, Mark's Work Wearhouse