Today, data warehousing and business intelligence are mission-critical functions for organizations of all types and sizes. Recent advances in mainframe architectures, along with development of the data warehousing and business intelligence software that support them, are empowering organizations with a reliable, secure, scalable, cost-effective architecture for their new data warehousing and business intelligence functionality. IBM System z supports the entire data warehousing cycle, along with business intelligence software to deliver a total solution infrastruc­ture.