ARMONK, N.Y. and GUANGZHOU, China, Sept.
15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Yonyou
Software Co. Ltd, the largest enterprise ISV in the Asia Pacific region, today announced a
strategic collaboration to accelerate the adoption of IBM Big Data
& Analytics technologies to help customers gain business
insight and run their applications more efficiently and at much
lower cost.
Under terms of the agreement, Yonyou and IBM will optimize DB2
with BLU Acceleration for NC, Yonyou's ERP, supply chain, customer
relationship, and human resources software. Yonyou will offer DB2
with BLU acceleration with NC to its customers and together IBM and
Yonyou plan to develop an end-to-end ecosystem covering application
testing, technical help, marketing expertise, and sales support.
Yonyou has also decided to adopt IBM analytics software, such as
Cognos, into its Unified Application Platform (UAP). UAP is the
common computing platform for the enterprises and
organizations.
"Data is the world's new natural resource, and our goal is to
provide Yonyou customers with best-in-class transaction and
analytic capabilities," said Sean Poulley, VP, Databases & Data
Warehousing, Information Management Division, IBM. "The combination
of NC and DB2 with BLU Acceleration will offer Yonyou customers
both cost and performance advantages. Leveraging IBM's China
Software Development Lab, IBM is committed to developing a new
generation eco-system and to continue on as a trusted provider to
Chinese enterprises like Yonyou."
IBM's DB2 with BLU Acceleration delivers in-memory computing
analytics with high-performance transaction processing in one
database, providing faster answers to today's business
problems.
"ERP and accounting software applications run a lot of reports.
In a complex query test of balance of supplier on System x*, DB2
with Blue Acceleration yielded a 40x performance boost over a
traditional row database. This type of technology is an ideal fit
for Yonyou's Big Data Analytic Services," said Zheng Yulin, Senior Vice President, Yonyou
Software Co. Ltd.
According to industry analysts, China will be one of the leading countries in
big data technology adoption. IDC expects Big Data technology and
services in China to grow at 38.7%
compound annual growth rate from US$165.5
million to US$850 million by 2017**.
About Yonyou:
Headquartered in Beijing, Yonyou Software Co. was founded in
1988 and is now recognized as a leading enterprise management
software, solutions and cloud service provider in China and the Asia
Pacific region. The company specializes in the research,
development and provision of software and solutions for Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer
Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources Management (HRM),
Business Intelligence (BI) and Office Automation (OA).
For more information about Yonyou, visit:
http://www.yonyou.com.sg/.
About IBM Big Data and Analytics:
IBM has established
the world's deepest portfolio of Big Data and Analytics technology
that spans research and development, solutions and software. IBM
has invested $24 billion to build its
capabilities in Big Data and Analytics through R&D and more
than 30 acquisitions. Today, more than 15,000 analytics
consultants, 6,000 industry solution business partners, and 400 IBM
mathematicians are helping clients use big data to transform their
organizations.
For more information about IBM Big Data and Analytics, visit
http://www.ibm.com/big-data/us/en/big-data-and-analytics/
Follow IBM Big Data & Analytics on Twitter @IBMbigdata and
@IBMAnalytics.
* System x configuration: IBM x3550 M4, with 16 cores and 128 GB
memory.
** IDC "China Big Data Technology and Services Market 2013–2017
Forecast and Analysis" Doc # CN243826 March 2014
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