Last week in Baltimore The Fillmore Group conducted a deep-dive technical workshop on IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator.  We covered Basic and Advanced hands-on labs with the support of the IBM Poughkeepsie Demo Center.  Saghi Amirsoleymani and Mike Hood, both of IBM, presented on the Tools Ecosystem supporting the Accelerator including:

• Omegamon XE for DB2 Performance Expert
• DB2 Query Monitor
• Optim Query Workload Tuner
• DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader

The presentation I gave outlining the topics covered in the Basic and Advanced lab exercises is here: IDAA Workshop 2014-04  Additional presentations will be posted soon.

Demo videos of the Tools include:

• DB2 11 Using Statistics Collection Advisor
• IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS and the Supporting DB2 and Optim Database Tools

Database Magazine and Articles on Accelerating Analytics Queries

http://ibmdatamag.com/2013/12/accelerating-analytics-queries/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1403queryaccel/index.html