BANGALORE: IBM India has launched its Business Intelligence Competency centre at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

The centre will deliver advanced business intelligence solutions and provide the technology infrastructure to IIMB's fraternity to form a national level competency lab.

Equipped with an IBM AS 400 server and business intelligence tools such as IBM Intelligent Miner, Visual Warehouse and DB2 OLAP server, the centre is to carry out proof-of-concept development, training, workshops, seminars and symposia, according to Mr V ishwesh Padmanabhan, Vice-President (Software and Solutions Developer Marketing), IBM.

According to Dr M. Rammohan Rao, Director, IIM Bangalore, the centre will provide special focus in the area of relationship marketing.

``It will create the courseware in business intelligence-based applications as well as function as a centre for executive development in business intelligence for executives in Indian industry,'' he said.

One of IBM's five intelligence labs, the Bangalore centre is meant to identify best practices and benchmarks and develop and showcase the best business intelligence-based applications for relationship marketing. -- Our Bureau