SME Database Maintenance Is Very Weak.

For most small and medium enterprises, databases of various products and sales information should be a necessary tool.

Project management, customer relationship management CRM and inventory management are indispensable for database support.

However, due to the lack of IT talents, lack of professional knowledge and lack of capital investment, small and medium-sized enterprises have realized the application of corresponding databases, but maintaining these databases continuously seems to be a long way off.

Database maintenance is a difficult problem

The increasing demand for information by small and medium-sized enterprises is increasing the database of small and medium enterprises. However, the resources available by SMEs are very limited, coupled with the flexible and irregular business mode of small and medium-sized enterprises, which makes SMEs face the difficulties of rapid structural change, low level of personnel culture, confusion in management and poor foundation of information and data.

However, as SMEs invest more in information technology, SMEs are beginning to realize the importance of data.

Although small and medium-sized enterprises are limited in scale, they can not get away from all kinds of information in enterprise activities.

IDC's 2007 report predicts that by 2011, business data will increase at an annual rate of 60%.

For an enterprise, every day a variety of businesses produce large amounts of data. How to manage and make good use of these data is very important for the development of an enterprise.

The role of database is reflected in the organization and management of these huge and complex information.

As a result, most SMEs have invested much more in databases than expected in previous years.

On the one hand, small and medium-sized enterprises are investing more in the database. On the other hand, due to the lack of maintenance of the original database, the maintenance of the database accumulated by small and medium-sized enterprises is beginning to burst out.

Because in the small and medium-sized enterprises, due to the lack of information technology personnel, small and medium-sized enterprises hope that after database application, because they can not afford maintenance personnel, they always hope that the database does not need long-term maintenance.

In addition, many IT enterprise technicians disdain to do maintenance for small and medium-sized enterprises.

How can we sit back and relax?

Many large business databases are purchased from many large enterprises, and a series of applications are launched based on them, so as to ensure the sustainable development of enterprises.

Because these large commercial databases, though powerful, are expensive.

For many small and medium enterprises, too expensive database cost is an important factor hindering the entry of various database solutions into enterprises.

For small and medium-sized enterprises, free open source database seems to be a good choice, but the biggest problem facing open source databases is the problem of service and talent.

In this case, the free version of the commercial database has brought new choices to the small and medium enterprises. Not only that, the good service ability of the commercial database company also makes the small and medium-sized enterprises no longer have a headache for the database maintenance.

As early as the end of 2006, after IBM launched the milestone version of DB2 DB2 9, it also launched the long-awaited version of DB2's free version, DB2 9 Express, which aims to enter small and medium enterprises and free database market.

However, this is not the first free version database of IBM. IBM has launched an open source, free database Cloudscape long ago, which is a Java based database engine released with J2EE.

This database is different from the kernel of DB2. Although its efficiency is not very good, business users can easily migrate from Cloudscape to DB2.

Some analysts say that the free version of commercial databases will have a greater deterrent to open source products in the future.

Because commercial database has perfect service network and technical support, these are also a great temptation for small and medium-sized enterprises.

IBM also said that in addition to the free version of the database, another version of IBM DB2 database WorkGroup is also very suitable for small and medium enterprises, from the two aspects of function and cost, the cost performance is also very high.

According to IBM's product positioning, DB2 Workgroup 9 is a data server version designed to deploy a department or small enterprise environment involving a small number of internal users.

The Linux, UNIX and Windows versions are available under various platforms, and there are also very flexible and preferential price licensing modes. The system supports up to 4 processors and more than 16GB memory.

This version of database is also the starting point of the database from relational to hybrid. It has the attractive characteristics of XML and relational data optimization management, independent management and so on.

In fact, whether it is a charge database or a free database, for small and medium-sized enterprises, if considering the comprehensive cost of information system, IBM's products are very competitive.

Because of the professional services of IBM, the database of small and medium-sized enterprises can rest easy.