In this IBM Redbooks publication we discuss primary processes and various alternatives that prepare you in implementing a DB2 near-realtime business intelligence environment. We discuss architectural alternatives and include overviews of software products that you can use in an implementation. As a primary focus, we tested the capabilities for supporting continuous update of a DB2 data warehouse while running a continuous concurrent query workload against that data warehouse. We tested several implementation scenarios and the variables that impact them. The results of our testing and the issues we encountered are provided.