IBM And Yonyou Announce Strategic Collaboration To Accelerate Big Data And Analytics Adoption

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/

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* 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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