Likelihood to Recommend Most of the time, server utilization is reliable and stable during peak times. Truly amazing, this product offers a lot and gets it done in no time without any confusion.It is reliable, too accurate and the performance is top-notch. It seems to be competitive in all virtual energy systems and its connectivity is also good. It's available at a low cost, but it's enough to have as many low-cost, more efficient systems as possible. It's a minor thing, but very rarely, it can cause work interruptions while it can get stuck due to more frequent use such as restless work. These power servers are very efficient and really help when things go wrong. I am using this product to retrieve data much faster.
Read full review Panorama Necto 14 is well suited where BI is built to support social collaboration so that its analytics features can be shared to improve decision making by incorporating various organizational input. Additionally it supports an infographic display for information review which is unlike most of its competitors.
Read full review Pros Virtualization for Scale-Out and Scale-Up in the same footprint Security for different workloads: Large Confidential Computing and lightweight Secure Execution Performance is a true game changer: extreme throughput powered by amazingly huge caches. The one and only FIPS 140-2 Level 4 HSM on this planet Quantum Safe Encryption NOW! AI infusion to every transaction Read full review Comes with lot of option to modify and build the smart infographic. Uses innovative pictures and charts to create the dashboards Helps you identify why you are succeeding and where you should shift your focus to. The maps are amazing and they just don’t act as control points rather you can populate various measures on them making it really efficient to understand the business in geographical info graph Read full review Cons It would be good if IBM could demonstrate more use cases for Z to potential clients A migration strategy from Open Systems to Z would be helpful Any additional marketing to could explain the benefits of Z/Linux, especially now that RedHat is in the mix. Read full review This tool is relatively new to the current competitive BI market. Many organizations or business analyst are not yet aware of it's eye catching features. Need more enhancement for predictive analysis. Publishing reports as email attachment and mail server configuration is a little complicated process. Read full review Likelihood to Renew The IBM Z mainframe capabilities are unmatched for cloud readiness and optimization the learning capabilities are matched perfectly with Watson and the expandability of the cloud makes it a perfect choice.
Read full review Some features are very basic and sometimes you can't add your own SQL query for custom reports. For Macs and Blackberry users this application is not helpful. Non-languages are not supported in info-graphics. They need to improve their forecast analysis. Report sharing is limited among the portal users only
Read full review Usability Once you learn how, it easy. It's different than most other systems
Read full review It provides all the features that are required and some that are not the basic requirements, but they represent a great additional capabilities, not available within the similar products
Read full review Reliability and Availability The Z in IBM Z is for zero down time. If you configure your system according to IBM's best practices, you can achieve zero downtime
Read full review Performance Performance is a major part when you configure your system. IBM has many tools to study your system and suggest the appropriate configuration. With the right contract, you can add processing power dynamically and remove it when no longer needed
Read full review Support Rating Support is usually superb, only occasionally dropping to very good. We participate in some of the CD (Continuous Delivery) aspects of z/OS, IMS, MQ, and DB2.
Read full review Support provider are very attentive.
Read full review In-Person Training Over my 33 years on this platform, I attended many in person courses, conferences, and other training opportunities.
Read full review Online Training There are many online courses from both IBM and other vendors. Most are great. All of the documentation is available online.
Read full review Implementation Rating I do not personally have any key insights regarding implementation of IBM Z Enterprise Servers as that is what our mainframe architects do.
Read full review Everything went smoothly, we didn't have any unexpected issues
Read full review Alternatives Considered IBM Z is the best storage solution as it provides the best in class data protection with the cryptographic hardware keys, no loss in data while migration, and a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for develops to understand and has less of a learning curve. This makes it well above the competition.
Read full review This is the next generation BI tool, which will be very helpful for small and medium businesses to kick start data exploration and visualization of their diverse databases, with less intervention from IT. This tool is more end user centric and gives way more power to the end user to perform data analysis
Read full review Scalability If you need more processing power, just add more CPU's or memory. The largest system can have close to 200 CPU's and 40 TB of memory. If that is not enough, you can add more physical computers, and connect them using a sysplex
Read full review Return on Investment With IBM Z we really feel a different positive impact on our company. A trustworthy and the most powerful place we have ever. A unique computing platform that helps a lot for the progress of our company. It keeps our data save, encrypted. Read full review ScreenShots Panorama Necto Screenshots