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How InfoSphere Information Server Builds on InfoSphere DataStage
Capabilities
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IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.5
Accelerating time to value
 Advanced collaboration & automation innovations to accelerate the enterprise
– Broad range of top down design capabilities with InfoSphere Blueprint Director
– Automated documentation and job specifications supporting change management and
design
– Integrated collaboration across business and IT users across the data discovery
phase
– Simplified installation, configuration and software upgrade approach
– Active integration to industry leading source code control systems
 Expansive data integration functionality to support the increasing demands of IT
– Advanced message handling supporting complex XML
– Expanded transformation functionality
– Support for lifecycle demands of RDBMS generated logic (ELT)
– Automatic metadata integration delivering a consistent trusted view
– Consistent and continuous real-time data reducing demand on batch windows
 Architectural innovations supporting the largest, enterprise-ready, mission-critical
deployments
– Evolved infrastructure to support high-availability and clustering
– Accelerated performance across execution and design phases
– ExtendedIBMconnectivity
options to guarantee delivery of transaction data
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The InfoSphere Portfolio delivers unique synergistic value that
accelerates and improves business results and reduces cost and risk
Accelerated value through:
 Deep integration across
components
 Shared Understanding of
existing assets
 Collaborative tools to align IT
and business
 Shared model-driven design
tools
 Pre-built accelerators to speed
deployment
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Align business and IT objectives using single platform that creates
trusted information for use in key initiatives
Sources
Business
Initiatives
Executives
legacy
Enterprise
Architects
Business
Analysts
Data
Analysts &
Architects
Subject Matter
Experts
apps
BI
dbs
SAP
Xls., xml,
flat
Warehouse
MDM
warehouse
App
Consolidation
z/OS
custom
Data
Steward
DBA
Developer
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System
Architect
ERP System
Manager
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Workflow
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leveraging “best” practices
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InfoSphere Blueprint Director
Requirements
Design your integration
landscape with a visual approach
from high – level to detailed
design.
Blueprint Director
 Define and manage an end2-end information flow.
 Link to a defined reference
architecture and ensure
collaboration.
 Provide insight to the
information roadmap across
the organization.
Benefits
 Ensures on-time delivery
via a re-usable approach to
delivery.
 Guarantees best practices
are implemented across
shared teams and
workstreams.
 Ensures collaboration on
the design before action is
taken.
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Workflow
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Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
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InfoSphere Business Glossary
Requirements
Create and manage business
vocabulary and relationships and
related to physical sources
Business Glossary
 Capture business terms and
classifications
 Link business terms and
classifications to IT assets
 Identify data stewards and
make glossary accessible
Benefits
 Context for information is
available to everyone,
immediately
 IT projects are aligned with
data governance
 Collaboration increases
across business and IT
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Industry Models
 Proven approach and methodology
 Embedded industry expertise
 More than 500 global clients
Requirements
 Utilize Industry standard
business definitions
across the enterprise.
 Leverage connectivity to
data model as an
accelerator to industry
driven projects.
 Deliver consistency
across the business and
IT stakeholders.
Benefits
 Reduces analysis and
design of functional
requirements by more
than 40%
Banking * Insurance * Telco * Retail *
Healthcare * Financial Markets
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 Accelerates stakeholder
approval by more than
50%.
 Reduces time to value
decreasing operational
costs
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Workflow
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Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
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Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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InfoSphere Information Analyzer
Requirements
Information Analyzer
Analyze source data quality and
monitor adherence to integration
and quality rules
 Perform data quality
assessment
 Define business rules to
monitor data quality
 Establish stewards for
governance of data
quality
Benefits
 Identify data quality
issues early to reduce
project risks
 Monitor quality metrics
over time for compliance
 Create business
confidence with trusted
information
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Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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Create or Modify Data
Model
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Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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InfoSphere Data Architect
Requirements
Model, visualize, and relate diverse
and distributed data assets
Data Architect
 Design and manage
enterprise models
 Enforce model conformance
to enterprise standards
 Leverage industry data
models for best practices
Benefits
 Speed design activities
 Populate Business
Glossary from model terms
 Validate models for
enterprise conformance
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Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
3
Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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leveraging “best” practices
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Create or Modify Data
Model
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Assess & monitor your
data quality over time
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InfoSphere Information Analyzer
Requirements
Information Analyzer
Analyze source data quality and
monitor adherence to integration
and quality rules
 Perform data quality
assessment
 Define business rules to
monitor data quality
 Establish stewards for
governance of data
quality
Benefits
 Identify data quality
issues early to reduce
project risks
 Monitor quality metrics
over time for compliance
 Create business
confidence with trusted
information
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Workflow
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Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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2
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Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
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Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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Create new
transformation rules
& document
Create or Modify Data
Model
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Assess & monitor your
data quality over time
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InfoSphere FastTrack
Requirements
Capture Design Specifications and
accelerate translation into data
integration projects
FastTrack
 Capture business
requirements for source to
target mappings
 Leverage source analysis
and business vocabulary
 Generate candidate ETL
jobs
Benefits
 Accelerate development of
integration processes
 Centralized management of
specifications
 Audit design decisions over
time
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Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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2
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Create new
transformation rules
& document
Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
Create or Modify Data
Model
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5
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Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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Report & Govern on
metadata assets
Assess & monitor your
data quality over time
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InfoSphere Metadata Workbench
Requirements
Support information governance with
traceability on data movement,
modeling & BI applications
Metadata Workbench
 Handle Change
Management processes with
measured impact.
 Visualize and trace
information flows across
enterprise landscape
 Access and report on
operational and design
metadata
Benefits
 Deliver enterprise audit
control information.
 Mediate system
disruptions.
 Govern enterprise assets
over time.
 Ensure effective
collaboration with line of
business stakeholders.
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Data Lineage Reporting
end to end Data Lineage
View context-specific
details or drill down
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Workflow
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Start from consistent blueprint,
leveraging “best” practices
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2
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Create new
transformation rules
& document
Document KPIs and
associated business
terms
Create or Modify Data
Model
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5
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Identify where KPI’s exist,
relationship and level of
quality
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Report & Govern on
metadata assets
Assess & monitor your
data quality over time
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Workflow
InfoSphere™
Foundation Tools
Cleanse Data
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InfoSphere QualityStage
Standardize, cleanse and
deduplicate data, ensuring a
complete, accurate view of
information
QualityStage
Requirements
 Resolution of data
quality issues
 Standardization of data
formats
 Cleanse data
 Manage duplicate data
 Enable ongoing quality
Benefits
 Removes duplicates
 Cross-references
matching records
 Survives a single,
complete record
 Validate and enriches
data
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Workflow
InfoSphere™
Foundation Tools
Cleanse
Data
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Transform
Data
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InfoSphere DataStage
Requirements
Integrate, transform and deliver
data on demand across multiple
sources and targets including
databases and enterprise
applications
DataStage
 Integrate and transform
multiple, complex, and
disparate sources of
information
 Demand for data is
diverse – DW, MDM,
Analytics, Applications,
and real time
Benefits
 Transform and aggregate
any volume of information
 Deliver data in batch or real
time through visually
designed logic
 Hundreds of built-in
transformation functions
 Metadata-driven
productivity, enabling
collaboration
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Workflow
InfoSphere™
Foundation Tools
Cleanse
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Optimized
Data Delivery
Transform
Data
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Optimized Data Integration
Requirements
Manage and deliver information
efficiently where the business
demands require
 Maintaining transactional
integrity across systems.
 Manage data as it occurs
Data Delivery
 Minimize impact to
operational systems
Benefits
 Captures changes in data
across a variety of
systems when needed
 No impact to active
systems
 Manage intra-day
reporting and update
needs
 Keep the business ‘data’
current
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Workflow
Integration Landscape
Design
Deploy & Optimize
Manage
InfoSphere™
Foundation Tools
TARGETS
Cleanse
Data
Transform
Data
BI
Warehouse
MDM
ODS
Etc...
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Data Delivery
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Optimized and Simplified Data Integration with Information Server
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Establish Platform Import
& Enhance Industry Model
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Understand Data
Relationships
Warehouse and
BI tools
Information Analyzer
Data Architect
Deliver Warehouse and
Reports
Populates
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Define Business
Requirement & Glossary
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Assess, Monitor, Manage
Data Quality Rules
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Map Sources to Target
Model
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Generate Logic to Load
Warehouse
Links
Business Glossary
Information Analyzer
FastTrack
DataStage &
QualityStage
Metadata Server
Simplification & Content: reduces project time, risk and cost!
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Thank You
Jo Friedman
IBM Software Group
InfoSphere Product Management
jo@il.ibm.com
www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere
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