# IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Reviews
**Vendor:** IBM  
**Category:** [Other Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-analytics)  
**Average Rating:** 3.6/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 12
## About IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator
High-speed analysis of your enterprise data for real-time insight under the control and security of IBM Z




## IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Reviews
  ### 1. Healthy work environment Clear goals

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ajay D. | product manager, Management Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2023

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

IBM offers search, browse, and query capabilities while assisting consumers in comprehending the commercial significance of their assets. In addition, users can create asset collections and run lineage reports to look at data flow between assets using tools like IBM InfoSphere  Information Governance Catalog.
Organizations can create and manage a robust enterprise-wide vocabulary with the aid of IBM Cloud Insurance Business Vocabulary. Several information integration and governance projects, including as big data integration, master data management (MDM), lifecycle management, and security and privacy initiatives, can benefit from the use of this terminology.

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

The documentation and guidance are the only things on which we can face difficulties. They need to improve it and draw more attention to it so that users may learn what they need to know without asking the support staff or the community for help. And also before utilising the instrument, extensive training is required.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The Db2 Analytics Accelerator minimises CPU usage on System z  while maximising performance for lengthy sophisticated queries in magnitudes. Additionally, it has a high performance storage saver feature that enables historical data to be stored in Db2 tables or partitions only on the accelerator. There is no hardware which does not use IBM.

  ### 2. IBM Analytics accelerator

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Deepak Ganesh D. | EDI | B2B | SCM Technical Lead (India Software Labs), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

IBM DB2 analytics uses data available from multiple sources through API and provides more accurate reports that drives the business effectively.

It has IBM Watson that provides AI driven advantage for the report taken

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Interfaces within the IBM product family is more effective and easy where connecting with external data sources is some what difficult.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Reports for predictive analysis for manufacturing business and it helps demand forecasting.

  ### 3. IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator - tool to use for database administrator or system programmer

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nandasiri G. | IT consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

fast execution of complex queries on a snapshot of the data copy from Power server database

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

This software should be included as part of the DB2, instead of a separate tool

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

As a consultant when you are trying to quickly grasp the knowledge of user database it gives you graphical snapshot.

  ### 4. Fast and helpful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emre B. | IT Trainee at Data Analytics & AI, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

It's beneficial for data analytics, especially if you are dealing with large-scale data

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

It has some requirements. You have to install some IBM products

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helped me to analyze large-scale data fastly on my project

  ### 5. Good Database configuration

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lokendra S. | Senior Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

easy to configuration with oracle and java application

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

long debug logs and analysis reports. Multiple instances should be configuration with little easy way.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

giving end to end database solutions

  ### 6. A very quick and fast Analytic Tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bharathi J. | Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Respond quickly with real-time analytics

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Short-running process after initial load

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Respond quickly with real-time analytics

  ### 7. It depends on the nature of the requirements and the type of project

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Multi Tools
New technics
Several options for data analysis
Various Dashbords

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Having some complexity to use for non-developers
Multiple windows on one page
Difficulty searching for information or section

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I didn't use it in a real project, but I tried it

  ### 8. DB2 Review

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

i like the tool that managed the DB2, the accelerator is a very helpful product which gives a push for IBM to be able to sell more and make it more adopted within companies and DBAs

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

the tool is sometimes buggy and this was the old version. The new version should be better in that case.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

the problems that it solves is that it gived better insight of the data that resides in the db

  ### 9. It's fast and accurate.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

It's pretty helpful in analysis and reporting purposes, especially regarding business reporting.

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

As such there is no drawbacks, it's just that it is highly dependent on IBM products.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Queries are faster and more helpful in analyzing critical data.

  ### 10. Business Information Lead

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** shehabun s. | Planning &amp; Business Insights Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2022

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

High-speed processing of complex queries especially when it involves large scale data

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

less known and proven compared to its competition

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Protection of data integrity and manage complex data sets

  ### 11. Too many errors

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** John W. | Founder, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2018

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Everything is integrated. We used our own proprietary solution up until recently, but expansion made it necessary to go to something that interconnects all locations. 

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Too many errors. I'm still not certain if they were mostly user, implementation or software errors, but they posed a significant enough problem that we went with another option. I believe we would have been satisfied if the errors could have been eliminated. 

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Integration was the objective for us. We were attempting to have all divisions and all platforms work together. 

  ### 12. IBM Products are unreliable

**Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018

**What do you like best about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

Integration with existing IBM infrastructure and IBM products such as IBM DB2.
The product does not offer anything more impressive than basic features that are available even with basic free tools.

**What do you dislike about IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator?**

The Analytics Accelerator has a very steep learning curve. The product is cumbersome and requires installing prerequisite IBM products which are expensive and do not solve the business problem in clear, direct & concise manner.

**What problems is IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator solving and how is that benefiting you?**

IBM Analytics Accelerator is an integrated hybrid environment that can run transaction processing, complex analytical and reporting workloads concurrently and efficiently. The company has decided the product is not worth the expense are we are moving to RedHat as a vendor.



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