IBM® InfoSphere® Blueprint Director is designed to help IT departments define and manage their information projects, from initial sketches through final delivery. InfoSphere Blueprint Director is included with every version of InfoSphere Information Server and InfoSphere Optim Solutions.
Creating a well-documented, end-to-end blueprint of both the business and technical vision for an information project can help IT departments align business requirements with enterprise and reference architecture and encourages a standardized approach that minimizes rework. By representing the project vision across all domains (e.g. data integration, data archiving, test data management, application retirement, data warehousing, and business intelligence) blueprints can help data architects avoid siloed thinking and misalignment with business priorities.
Blueprints also support project execution based on proven methodologies. Architects can use blueprints to leverage best practices as defined in the appropriate method and create documentation regarding who is supposed to do what, when, why and the outcome. InfoSphere Blueprint Director plays a critical role in keeping the project vision synchronized with the actual solution by linking the blueprint to business and technical artifacts throughout the solution life cycle.