The document provides an introduction to IBM's DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE). It outlines several key features included in AESE such as compression, workload management tools, federation support between DB2 and Oracle databases, high availability options including Q-Replication, and label-based access control security. Pricing and packaging information is also presented, showing AESE is priced at $450 per Value Unit and includes many features that were previously priced separately or only available in higher editions of DB2.