Information as a Service

Without a foundation of usable information, your service-oriented architecture is just a loose confederation of abstract business processes. It's your business information that delivers the value to your SOA. Information as a service is about providing a new level of services that helps add value to information contained in data sources across an organization.
By treating information as a service, organizations can improve the relevance and cost effectiveness of their information, making information available to people, processes and applications across the business, and improving the operational impact information can have in driving innovation.

IBM provides a complete infrastructure for information services. The IBM Information Management portfolio delivers the necessary building blocks for an information infrastructure – enabling businesses to model, assemble, deploy and manage information to create insight:

• IBM Information Server enables real-time, integrated access to business information regardless of location or format. It provides the broadest set of information integration capabilities to semantically align information across disparate sources
• IBM Industry Models provide a collection of industry-specific business process and service models for key industries (Banking, Insurance, and Financial Markets) to accelerate enterprise business initiatives for Core System Renewal, Business Process Optimization, and Multi-Channel transformation.
• Master Data Management Services enable the creation and management of multiform master data, provided as a service, for customer information across heterogeneous environments.
• Content Management Services facilitates information management through its lifecycle once it is declared as a critical asset. IBM empowers you to access, protect and deliver more forms of information than any other vendor.
• Business Intelligence Services gives you the tools for powerful analysis from integrated data so you can derive insights that give you a competitive advantage.