Features and benefits
IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director and IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director for Linux on System z provide these unique capabilities:
- Rapid deployment - Services can be deployed for data integration logic in minutes, using intuitive wizards that do not presume advanced J2EE knowledge
- Service abstraction - Services are deployed natively in your application server as true business objects, completely hiding the implementation complexity from the service consumer. InfoSphere Information Services Director supports logic from a large variety of products such as:
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server
- IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z
- IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server
- IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management
- IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS (for accessing mainframe sources)
- IBM DB2
- Oracle.
- Binding flexibility - Services can be deployed with a choice of bindings to enable information as a service for all types of applications to increase the opportunities for reuse. InfoSphere Information Services Director provides the following binding options:
- Web services (SOAP/HTTP)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Java Message Server (JMS)
- JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
- Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
- Representational State Transfer (REST)
- High availability - IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z provide a resilient environment that supports fault tolerance and high availability
- High Performance - IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z combine the concepts of load balancing with true parallel execution, resulting in the fastest possible execution of data integration tasks
- Metadata-driven services - Uses the metadata of the underlying data integration logic to determine what the request and response data of the service will look like.
- Standards support - IBM InfoSphere Information Server and IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z were built to provide an SOA for data integration that leverages and reinforces the open standards activities of organizations like WS-I, OASIS, W3C, and the Java Community Process
- Platform flexibility - IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z provides the flexibility to perform these functions directly on the mainframe so that you can:
- leverage existing mainframe resources to maximize the value of your IT investments
- take advantage of the scalability, security, manageability and reliability of the mainframe
- add mainframe information integration work load without added z/OS operational costs
By leveraging the capabilities of IBM InfoSphere Information Server or IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z, InfoSphere Information Services Director and InfoSphere Information Services Director for Linux on System z, your organization can:
Execute data integration tasks in real time as business occurs to deliver trusted business information across the enterprise in order to increase business agility and capture time-sensitive opportunities
Service-orient your data warehouse to support ad-hoc analytics by quickly turning ETL jobs into message-based data warehouse updates
Improve accuracy and completeness of all data by creating shared services for data cleansing that can be called in-flight and on demand from any application, business process, or portal
Ensure consistent enforcement of governance across all uses of data by creating shared data access objects for transactional, operational, and analytical data
Utilize the best data available in the enterprise for operational decision-making with real-time matching services that can be used to provide probabilistic record linkage against master data stores and systems of record
Provide enterprise-wide visibility to key business information with standard validation services of any data, whether structured, unstructured, application, or mainframe
Obtain a complete view of customer information in real time with federation services that can be tied directly into any application or self-service portal
Enable an Info 2.0 environment by providing accurate and timely information that is customized to the business user through enterprise mashups
