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Module 01 InfoSphere Portfolio & Data Integration

Components

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Module Objectives

After completing this topic, you should be able to:

■ Describe the key components of InfoSphere Information
Server
■ Understand how to position each InfoSphere Information
Server component
■ Understand InfoSphere Information Server packages and the
tools associated with each package

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Data is growing … So is the need to take control

 Data integration can

44x as much Data and Content
Over Coming Decade
help you take charge
of diverse and
changing data

2020
35 zettabytes
2011
2009 1.8 zettabytes
800,000 petabytes
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Integrating information from across the enterprise

Traditional Approach New Approach
Structured, analytical, logical Creative, holistic, intuitive

Data
Data Hadoop
Hadoop
Warehouse
Warehouse Streams
Streams
Transaction Data Web Logs

Internal App Data Social Data

Structured Big Data, Unstructured
Information
Mainframe Data Repeatable Integration &
Exploratory Text & Images
Linear Governance Iterative
OLTP System Data Sensor Data

ERP data Traditional

Traditional New
New RFID
Sources
Sources Sources
Sources
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InfoSphere Information Server

Integrating and transforming data and content to deliver

accurate, consistent, timely and complete information on a
single platform unified by a common metadata layer

Business Data Data

Information Quality Integration
Exchange

Understanding & Cleansing & Transformation

Collaboration Monitoring • Massive scalability
• Power for any complexity
• Information blueprints • Analysis & validation • Total traceability
• Relationship discovery • Data cleansing Delivery
across data sources • Data quality rules & • Data capture at any time
• IT-to-business mapping management
• Delivery anywhere
• Big data readiness

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Business Information Exchange: Understand your

information, transforming it into an enterprise asset
Three dimensions of understanding and governance: Business
Information
Exchange
Business
Gain & manage business perspective
about information and align with IT
 leading technology for business-friendly access
& pre-packaged terms
 time-saving Industry Models for warehouses
in key industries

Process
Guide projects with best practices to
achieve goals with reduced risk
 unique capability to architect information
projects with embedded methodology that
can be tracked

Technology
Discover data structures and understand
your lineage to manage compliance
 unique capability for discovering business objects

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Data Quality: Create & maintain quality data, turning data

assets into trusted information Data
Quality

Analyze data, cleanse data and control data quality

Analyze
Use source system analysis to
understand your issues
 automated discovery of critical data
and hidden data relationships

Cleanse
Investigate, standardize, match
and survive data
 most comprehensive &
customizable solution

Control & monitor quality

Assess and monitor the quality of your
data in any place (database or data flow)
and across systems
 unique capability to align DQ metrics with
business & governance objectives

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Integration: Transform and deliver to any system,

improving time to value
Data
Integration
Integrate and transform data on demand
across multiple sources and targets …

Transform
 Satisfy the most complex transformation
requirements with the most scalable
runtime available
 Transform and aggregate any data volume
 Benefit from hundreds of built-in
transformation functions
 Leverage metadata-driven productivity
and enable collaboration
 Use a simple, web-based dashboard to
manage your runtime environment
 Manage your requirements for
transformation activities to align
with the business

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Integration: Transform and deliver to any system,

improving time to value
Data
Integration
Deliver data efficiently according to your
business requirements

Deliver

 Leverage unique capabilities to:

 Read from low-impact DBMS logs ETL
Federation Bulk Transformation
 Apply any level of complex data (ETL and ELT)
integration/data quality logic
 Guarantee delivery through two-phased
commit to one or more DBMS or MQ
targets
 Support the most complex & challenging
Incremental Replication (CDC)
real-time integration requirements

Message Business
ETL
Queue Application

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InfoSphere Information Server Packages

InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise Edition

InfoSphere
Information Server for
Data Quality

InfoSphere InfoSphere
Business Information Information Server for
Exchange Data Integration

InfoSphere Information Server made up of 4 packages:

 InfoSphere Business Information Exchange
 InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration
 InfoSphere Information Server for Data Quality
 InfoSphere Information Server Enterprise Edition (inclusive of all 3 packages above)

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Information Server Strategic Fit

IBM InfoSphere Platform
“Information Integration and Governance”

InfoSphere
Information Server for
Data Integration
IS Data
Integration

IS IS Data
InfoSphere
Guardium Quality Information Server for
Business Data Quality
Information
Exchange

InfoSphere
MDM Business Information
IS Optim IS MDM
Server,
Initiate Exchange

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What’s in each offering? Under the covers

Point products under the covers InfoSphere InfoSphere InfoSphere InfoSphere
Business Information Server Information Server Information
Information for Data Quality for Data Integration Server
Exchange Enterprise
Edition

InfoSphere Blueprint Director    

InfoSphere Discovery for Information Integration    

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench    

InfoSphere Data Architect   
InfoSphere Business Glossary  
InfoSphere Business Glossary Anywhere  
InfoSphere Information Analyzer  
Information Analyzer Workbench  
InfoSphere QualityStage  
InfoSphere Information Services Director   
InfoSphere DataStage/QualityStage Designer   
InfoSphere DataStage  
InfoSphere FastTrack  
InfoSphere Change Data Delivery  

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