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Product Sheet

IBM InfoSphere Information Server


IBM
IBM is an American multinational technology and
consulting corporation, with headquarters in New Company details
York but with a global presence. It manufactures
and markets computer hardware and software IBM
and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting New Orchard Road
services in areas ranging from mainframe Armonk, New York, 10504
computers to nanotechnology. The company was USA
founded in 1911 and over the years has grown
through acquisition into its present state. Tel. +1 914 499 1900
IBM initially made its profits largely from selling Web. www.ibm.com
hardware but, these days, is more of a software
solutions and services company covering storage,
security, process, development, operations etc.
- and IBM Global Services. It currently stresses
the delivery, from smarter computing, technology
and process, of better business outcomes for the
smarter planet.
It has considerable original research capabilities
and is responsible for many computer science
innovations from relational database theory (see
for example, E. F. Codd’s 1981 ACM Turing Award
Lecture) to advanced semi-AI computers that offer
cognitive computing capabilities. IBM has recently
described cognitive computing as “the third era of
computing”.
InfoSphere Information Server is IBM’s data
integration platform. It supports the whole Figure 1: Requirements (scale 0 to 5)
spectrum of use cases for data integration
including application to application integration,
B2B integration, ETL (extract, transform and load) as opposed to IBM Information Analyzer, which
and ELT for moving data from one environment you get in the Information Server for Data Quality
to another (from operational systems to a data Edition. However, we understand that InfoSphere
warehouse is the classic case, nowadays including Discovery and Information Analyzer will be merged
moving data into Hadoop), data migration and during the course of 2015, which will make this
SaaS (software as a service) implementations. In unnecessary.
this latter case IBM offers specific capabilities with
regard to some third party applications, notably Markets and Channels
Salesforce.com. IBM delivers InfoSphere Information Server
There are also specific editions of InfoSphere through its global direct sales force.
Information Server, including; InfoSphere
Information Server Enterprise Edition, InfoSphere Users
Information Server Enterprise Hypervisor Edition, As a product that is around 20 years old
InfoSphere Information Server for Data Integration, (InfoSphere DataStage, as it was then, was
InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, and originally developed by Ardent, which was acquired
InfoSphere Information Server for Data Quality by Ascential, which in turn was acquired by
(which provides data profiling and data cleansing IBM) there are thousands of users of InfoSphere
capabilities). There are also editions for data Information Server and there are a number of case
warehousing and for SAP implementations. We are studies published by IBM on its web site, including
slightly surprised that there is no particular edition the company’s own implementation in the office of
for data migration and/or archiving, where you the CIO, as well as banking customers, universities
would probably require IBM InfoSphere Discovery and others.

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Perhaps the most significant aspect of InfoSphere In addition to the normal sorts of training and
Information Server, outside its role of physically support services you would expect from any vendor
moving and transforming data at scale (including (which includes extensive online resources), IBM
big data integration and grid deployments), is offers business services (application innovation,
the extent to which it plays a part in information business analytics, business strategy, functional
governance. Thus the product includes the ability expertise, mid-market expertise), IT services
to define governance policies and rules, a data (application management, business continuity and
governance dashboard, integration with InfoSphere resiliency, data centres, integrated communications,
Master Data Management, Blueprint Director (used IT strategy and architecture, security), outsourcing
to model and view the integration and governance services (business process out-sourcing and IT
architecture) and the Information Governance outsourcing and hosting), asset recovery, hardware
Catalog (previously Business Information and software financing, IT lifecycle financing and
Exchange), which provides a business glossary and commercial financing.
metadata workbench. There is also a new lineage
viewer.
Alongside core capabilities (for example, new
connectors to the cloud) the emphasis in the data
integration market at present is very much on
self-service capabilities, just as the same is true
for business intelligence. InfoSphere Information
Server provides this with InfoSphere Data Click,
which is a simple web-based interface for on-
demand integration, both between conventional
sources but also for access data lakes (integration
with Hadoop is built into the product). However,
self-service is not only about the user experience,
it is also about automating functions that
underpin what the user can do. Thus, for example,
Information Server supports the idea that you can
move data into, say, an IBM data warehouse using
ETL at one time of the day and ELT at another
time of the day. However, this has to be manually
scheduled and it would be preferable if there was
an optimiser built into the product to automate
this and other processes. We understand that
such an optimiser is planned. We should also add
that this is not a criticism—other vendors in this
space do not, typically, have even the existing
level of automation that IBM provides. Other
self-service capabilities include smart hover
(which provides contextual details about an asset
when you hover your mouse over it) and semantic
search capabilities. There are also new facilities
in the latest version (11.3) to support cross-team
collaboration.

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