IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) is the world's leading DBMS that leverages your existing investment and supports open standards and development platforms like J2EE and Microsoft .NET. It delivers cost-effective database platform and includes solutions for both large and small enterprise needs like business intelligence and advanced tooling.

Key highlights:

	Support for open standards: With a wide array of packaging options that caters to your specific needs of your business, DB2 supports a wide variety of key industry standards and popular platforms.
	Scales with your business: IBM DB2 is a leader in handling any workload on your choice of architectures. As your business grows, DB2 systems scale with it and have the ability to handle millions of transactions or many terabytes of data.
	Ease of use: Database administration is simplified and streamlined through self-managing technologies and management tools that come with your system.
	Low total cost of ownership: DB2 system delivers outstanding TCO through industry leading support, aggressive pricing and other efficiencies with minimum hardware requirements and leverage existing skills.
	Information as and when needed: Reliability, availability and security are the trademarks of the DB2 system and it never sacrifices these fundamentals when embracing new technologies necessary for today and tomorrow's challenges.