With data increasingly becoming central to businesses, more companies are transitioning from traditional BI tools like Db2 Web Query to modern BI tools. Since IBM pulled the plug on Db2 Web Query for i on October 10, 2023, LANSA BI has emerged as a game-changing solution tailored to enhance reporting capabilities and streamline data analysis within the IBM i environment.
Not only does LANSA BI allow you to access real-time insights effortlessly, but it also provides a wide array of advanced features that significantly improve data visualization, reporting, and analysis. Besides, its seamless integration with IBM i systems ensures that businesses can leverage their existing infrastructure while modernizing their BI capabilities. With features like interactive dashboards, guided NLQ, assisted insight generation, and data storytelling, LANSA BI allows businesses to gain deeper insights quickly and make data-driven decisions.
Transforming Data Experience with LANSA BI
Transitioning from Db2 Web Query to LANSA BI is a strategic move that not only enhances data analysis but also reporting capabilities. One of the most significant advantages of leveraging LANSA BI is its ability to connect with multiple databases and data warehouses, both on-premises and cloud. This flexibility resolves several challenges faced with Db2 Web Query, like limited integration options and complex configurations. LANSA BI offers a centralized platform for managing diverse data sources and simplifying data management tasks. By leveraging LANSA BI, businesses can automate data processing, analysis, and reporting without needing separate tools. Here are some key features offered by LANSA BI:
Unlike traditional BI solutions, LANSA BI seamlessly integrates data analysis tools within IBM i applications. By embedding insights directly into everyday workflows, businesses can access and analyze data quickly without switching between different tools. The robust integration framework of LANSA BI ensures that all valuable data is effectively captured, whether structured data from relational databases, unstructured information from cloud storage, or real-time data streams from IoT devices. It enables users to get data from different sources within the organization, ensuring all relevant information is available for analysis.
Businesses generate substantial amounts of data everyday. This data can come in different forms, including structured and unstructured. While structured data is relatively easy to organize and analyze, unstructured data poses a significant challenge for businesses. LANSA BI’s NLQ feature empowers users, including non-programmers, to uncover insights hidden within unstructured data using everyday language. Unlike Db2 Web Query, which lacks this feature, guided NLQ enables businesses to interact with data and gain insights without learning complex query languages like SQL. In LANSA BI, users can get relevant answers by simply typing their questions.
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Data Stories
Because traditional BI tools present data in a fragmented or complex manner, many businesses find it difficult to drive meaningful insights or communicate them to stakeholders. LANSA BI solves this issue by enabling users to create and share compelling data stories with various stakeholders. Data stories created by LANSA BI add context and narrative, making the insights more relatable and actionable for stakeholders. It helps stakeholders make better decisions and aligns different parts of the organization around common goals.
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Automated Insights
Although many BI tools offer extensive information on their dashboards, understanding their meaning is more challenging than it may seem. With so many variables, scanning every dashboard or reporting to track every trend is very difficult. To unlock insights out of your dashboards, you need auto-analysis. LANSA BI’s assisted insights use AI to help users interpret their data, compare data points, and automatically alert them of significant anomalies. It simplifies understanding of complex data and helps make decisions across all business areas faster.
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, the ability to analyze and respond to evolving trends is paramount. LANSA BI enables businesses to create customized interactive dashboards, leveraging an actionable representation of complex data sets in one place. This dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of key performance indicators and enables users to drill down into specific metrics for thorough review.
Why You Should Upgrade to LANSA BI Coming from Db2 Web Query
LANSA BI offers a more intuitive and user-friendly experience, making it easier to understand and use. From connecting and preparing business data to building dashboards and generating management reports, LANSA BI allows users of all skill levels, even non-technical users, to extract valuable insights with ease. Read on to find out why moving to LANSA BI from Db2 Web Query is a strategic decision that opens up new opportunities for making data-driven decisions.
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Improved Collaboration
Collaboration is key to driving innovation and achieving success. LANSA BI lets you publish and share dashboards with your team and allows members to work simultaneously on data stories for presentations. This collaboration feature reduces working time and increases workplace efficiency. It also leads to faster decision-making and improved teamwork, driving better business outcomes.
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Modern and User-Friendly Interface
Let’s face it, UI/UX can make or break a BI tool. LANSA BI stands out with its modern and user-friendly interface that simplifies data analysis for users of all levels. It comes with drag-and-drop wizards for creating views, reports, dashboards, and data stories without coding.
Unlike traditional BI tools, which often require users to switch between different interfaces, LANSA BI’s embedded analytics feature brings data analytics right to where users already work, reducing the need for them to learn a new software. This integration ensures that end-users can leverage data insights without the need for extensive training.
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Strong Security and Compliance
With rising cyber attacks, strong security and compliance have become top priorities for organizations. LANSA BI offers robust security features, including data encryption, user authentication, and access control. It helps ensure that only authorized personnel can view sensitive business information stored within its databases while protecting against unauthorized access from hackers or malicious actors trying to gain access to the system’s infrastructure. Also, LANSA BI includes an integrated governance module that helps businesses manage their data more effectively by providing visibility into how it is being used across various teams and departments throughout the organization.
Moreover, LANSA BI complies with major industry standards and regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. It provides comprehensive security measures that safeguard sensitive data and meet stringent requirements.
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Superior Data Integration Capabilities
You may have the most advanced business intelligence tool in the world, but if it can’t unify data from multiple sources into a usable format, it’s not much help. LANSA BI enables businesses to integrate data from various sources like relational databases, cloud services, and third-party applications into a single view, providing comprehensive insights into operations.
Unlike other BI tools that may struggle with disparate data sources and complex data environments, LANSA BI offers powerful ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. These processes extract the data you need, transform it into a useful form, and then load it into a data warehouse. This reduces inconsistencies and improves data quality, allowing businesses to break down data silos and perform more comprehensive analytics, leading to more informed decision-making.
- Enhanced Scalability and Performance
Unlike traditional BI tools that may experience slowdowns or require significant hardware upgrades as data volumes increase, LANSA BI’s scalable design ensures consistent performance and reliability. It is built on a modern, web-based multi-tier architecture and can handle large data volumes and complexity with ease. Data tables, regardless of size, load quickly—from milliseconds to seconds—facilitating efficient reporting and analysis. The platform supports advanced indexing and caching that helps in fast query responses and efficient data processing even as data sets grow larger.
Switch from Db2 Web Query to LANSA BI
LANSA BI offers low latency, better caching options, and the ability to scale to any limit through its web-based multi-tiered architecture. It provides enhanced security and collaboration features. The user interfaces used for generating reports and dashboards in LANSA BI are highly intuitive. Moreover, features such as NLQ make it user-friendly even for non-technical users.
Although Db2 Web Query is no longer supported, making newly found vulnerabilities a big concern as they continue to surface, LANSA BI comes with robust security and is regularly updated for any vulnerabilities that arise. These features and others we discussed make LANSA BI one of the best alternatives to Db2 Web Query.
Turn Your Data Into Actionable Insights With LANSA BI
Unlike traditional BI tools, LANSA BI offers a more user-friendly experience and generates insights faster. By seamlessly integrating with existing applications, LANSA BI enables users to overcome the compatibility hurdles that previously hindered BI adoption. LANSA BI provides robust analytics capabilities and offers a range of data visualization options that help users easily interpret complex data sets. From advanced analytics to assisted insights generation, LANSA BI brings decision-makers closer to actionable data, giving them an edge over their competitors. Take your organization to the next level using business intelligence, and contact us today.
