Executing your information agenda
Successfully executing your Information Agenda begins with creating a solid foundation that supports three things:
- Discovering what data you have spread across your enterprise and how its related
- Designing trusted information structures to leverage that data to optimize your business
- Governing that information over its lifecycle with a repeatable process
Any information-centric project can leverage the Foundation Tools including Business Intelligence applications, data warehouses, master data management, application consolidation, new application rollout, and information architecture.
The InfoSphere Foundation Tools can help you:
- Shorten development cycle times
- Increase operational efficiency
- Eliminate and streamline duplicate processes
- Promote team collaboration
- Go to market quicker
- Become more responsive to customer demand.
Built on an open architecture, these tools help profile, model, define, map and govern information that is spread across your enterprise, so your business can deliver the right information, to the right people, at the right time. The Foundation Tools are designed to be deployed in a heterogeneous IT environment to leverage existing IT investments. They work with any IBM or non-IBM data source, business intelligence tool or operating system -- or in conjunction with the Tools’ own comprehensive set of integration products.
The InfoSphere Foundational Tools are designed for:
- Data analysts
- Business analysts
- Data architects
- Subject Matter Experts
Learn how you can get your arms around your information today
One of the most difficult challenges companies today continue to struggle with is getting their arms around what information they have today:
- Which data is managed by which system?
- What relationships exist between data in different systems?
- How do I map data together for new uses?
- What should my data look like to allow me to use it to optimize my business?
- How does the business use the data?
- Who owns the information?
- What meaning does it have to the business?
- Which systems are best sources for specific pieces of information?
- What data quality issues do I have?
In order to adequately answer these questions, there needs to be alignment and consistent understanding across business and IT.
Without the ability to gain a complete understanding of existing data across departments and align that understanding with the enterprise business perspective, IT departments continue to expend exuberant and duplicative amount of time searching, cleaning, transforming and pushing information- resulting in inefficiencies and slower response to growing business demand needs.
Companies need a unified way to inventory, understand, define and optimize their information separate from applications and technologies. IBM’s unique set of Foundation Tools does exactly that to help you execute on your Information Agenda! It all begins with just 5 easy steps.
