Item: IBM Cloud Databases
Rating: 10
Author: Ben Holmes

Pros and Cons

Easily integrated
Easy to purchase and deploy
Price simplicity

Monitoring software for Db needs setup time
Cost grows quickly
Connectivity to our on-premise applications is a struggle

Return on Investment

Prove use cases prior to administering entire platform, obtain ROI faster
Able to achieve the technological components of our advanced analytics team without full scale purchase of AI platform
Developed several studies to prove out cloud Db value, speed to deploy

We already had existing contracts with IBM and Microsoft, so those made the most sense to verify. Both are good options for data storage. Since much of our existing Dbs are IBM related, we stuck with IBM cloud dbs, just so that the SQL code would port well. Additionally, we needed co-location of our data with the analytics platform we developed, and so that made IBM a better option.

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Databases delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Databases's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Databases live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Databases go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Databases again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SAS Enterprise Guide

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using the analytics environment in the cloud for IBM, so it makes most sense to use the cloud based Dbs available. We have some structured data that is important to our analytics, and dragging it down to IBM cloud has had good success. The unstructured data that we need to work with has all the resources it needs for the various cloud Db options.

IBM cloud databases easy to integrate and experiment with

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Databases