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Data Access in a Big Data World: How to Access Big Data so You Can Use It

With organizations collecting more customer, transactional, and relational data than ever before, data volumes are beginning to expand past their system’s processing capacity. But big data doesn’t have to be alarming. Go beyond the hype and conquer your IBM i data.

On-Demand Webinar

Creating Simple Yet Powerful Queries with Sequel

By Mike Stegeman

Query-building should be functional and flexible to fit your organization's needs. Sequel helps you build powerful and simple queries for better data access.

Article

How to Download an ODBC Driver

Wed, 07/25/2018

Performance Navigator® requires an ODBC connection to connect to your IBM i system, but it does not come with your PC’s operating system. IBM has a downloadable they’ve titled Access Client Solutions, which we recommend our customers use to get that ODBC connection.

Article

FAQs about Performance Navigator

Thu, 07/12/2018

Will this product hurt the performance of my IBM i®? You will not even notice that the product is working. The data gathering software is already part of the OS. I currently have a subscription to IBM's PM for Power service. How is Performance Navigator compared to PM? Glad you asked... Performance Navigator uses exactly the same input as PM for Power, Collection Services. Performance Navigator...

On-Demand Webinar

Business Intelligence is Changing: Make Your Game Plan

By Mike Stegeman

Don’t let business intelligence send your head spinning. Watch this webinar to learn how to set your IT department up for BI success in 2018.

Datasheet

Enterprise Console

View alerts generated on IBM i, AIX/VIOS, Linux, and Windows servers on a single, modern, centralized, graphical console. Plus, use Enterprise Console to receive SNMP traps from devices and software—both Fortra software and tools from other vendors. Simplify Enterprise Management Enterprise Console provides a real-time focal point for your IT infrastructure monitoring regardless of host...

Blog

Does Data Analysis Have to Be So Hard?

By Heath Kath on Fri, 05/25/2018

Find out how to get your AS400 or iSeries data and turn it into insight with simple data analysis.

Case Study

Sequel Transforms IT Reporting for Food Distribution Company

Blog

What’s the Future of Your Data?

By Mike Stegeman on Fri, 04/06/2018

Find out why it’s important to plan for the future of your data now.

On-Demand Webinar

3 Skills You DON’T Need to Build Awesome Dashboards

By Mike Stegeman

Dashboards are everywhere these days. But when you’re working with data from IBM i, building dashboards seems like an impossible challenge...

On-Demand Webinar

3 Ways to Get Real-Time Insights Into Your Business

By Heath Kath

Your IT team is charged with delivering the data the business needs. The only problem is that the data means nothing on its own...

Blog

3 Ways to Share IBM i Data (Without Losing Your Mind) [Webinar Recap]

By Heath Kath on Tue, 01/16/2018

On-Demand Webinar

3 Ways to Share IBM i Data (Without Losing Your Mind)

By Heath Kath

There are so many ways that different functional groups want their information delivered today. And there’s simply not enough time to do it all—until now.

Blog

3 Ways Excel Dashboards Fail at Business Intelligence

By Heath Kath on Thu, 11/30/2017

Excel dashboards aren’t the reliable source of truth your business needs. Here’s what you can do about it.

Datasheet

Sequel Data Access

Sequel Data Access helps your IT department deliver IBM i and remote data to business users and executives fast.

On-Demand Webinar

How to Do Business Intelligence—Without the Big Budget

By Mike Stegeman

You've been manually querying data for years, but keeping up with the status quo just isn't cutting it. Find out how to get better BI (at a price you can afford).