What’s new in

IBM InfoSphere
Information Server
V11.7.1
Introducing IBM Watson
Knowledge Catalog and
advanced capabilities

Organizations can gain a significant This brief gives you an overview of

competitive advantage by using the data what’s new in InfoSphere Information
generated in today’s digital transformation. Server V11.7.1 to further your digital
Leaders are learning to leverage this transformation.
explosion of data to create insights from – Business-friendly catalog experience
data coming from multiple clouds, on for the data citizen
– A single view into trusted, meaningful
premises and external data sources.
and quality information
– Automated data quality and governance
To be truly agile, organizations need to capabilities
rethink how to approach architectures – Advanced classification and discovery
and processes for this digital world. services fueled by AI
– Expanded multicloud connectivity
– Increased investment in open source
IBM® Infosphere® Information Server with new Apache Spark capabilities
V11.7.1 contains essential elements to
deliver business-ready data through a
trusted analytics foundation needed for a
successful digital transformation journey.

Information Governance Catalog workspace. Use auto discovery

and automation rules that can run in any number of data sets with no
changes needed.
Modernize your data architecture IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog:
for AI and analytics One catalog for governance teams
– Machine learning-infused capabilities help accelerate
and data consumers
the creation of business-ready data.
Information Server now includes Watson™
– Data integration and data quality can run on Apache
Knowledge Catalog (WKC) Lite:
Spark on Hadoop, both on premises or in the cloud.
– Single catalog consuming IBM InfoSphere Information
– Data access and visibility for individual users is
Governance Catalog (IGC) assets
determined by policy and enforced in real-time to help
– Knowledge-sharing reviews and ratings
ensure that sensitive information doesn’t become
– Self-service access for business analysts and data scientists
accessible by unauthorized users.
– Provides data refining and visualization
– Smart checkpointing provides automatic workload
recovery at the point of failure.
For more capabilities, upgrade to WKC Professional:
– Managed Kubernetes service support is provided on:
– Supports multiple catalogs
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
– Delivers active policy enforcement
• Microsoft Azure
– Provides advanced connectors for IBM Cognos®,
• Google Cloud Platform
Tableau Online, Dropbox, Looker and more
• IBM Cloud™
– Ability to add unlimited local files, and new connections
– Provides Red Hat OpenShift support.
– Utilize the new operational API with your favorite
continuous engineering or DevOps tools to build your Reduce hand-coding and scripting
continuous integration pipeline. with native, high-speed connectivity
– Migrate to V11.7.1 quickly and safely with IBM Rapid
for cloud, Hadoop and the enterprise
DataStage® Upgrade.
New certifications and features support:
– Apache Presto – Amazon Aurora
– Salesforce.com – Apache Hive
– Apache Kafka – IBM Db2® z/OS®
– IBM DB2® for iSeries – Netezza®
– Apache Cassandra – Pivotal Greenplum
– Hadoop Distributed
File System

New high-speed native connectivity:

– Google Cloud Storage
Watson Knowledge Catalog workspace. Use built-in data refinery to – IBM Cloud Object Storage
prepare your data, then visualize it. – Google BigQuery
– Azure Data Lake Storage

Ready to modernize your analytics

architecture?
Learn why IBM is delivering on the requirements
for business-ready data, visit:
ibm.com/analytics/information-server

Watson Knowledge Catalog workspace. Preview data and its metadata

before adding it to a project.

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