Analyst reports
Forrester Research: Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools
Forrester Consulting examines the Total Economic Impact and Return on Investment businesses can gain from IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools. The case study examined a world wide chemical and petroleum organization that had deployed InfoSphere Foundation Tools to improve and standardize their supply chain system.
Last updated: 21 Aug 2009
The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2009
Forrester provides a 54-criteria evaluation of enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform vendors, finding that Teradata, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft lead the pack because each offers mature, high-performance, flexible, secure, and robust solutions.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management Solutions for use with SAP NetWeaver®
Learn why IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management software and solutions are best suited to drive maximum value from investments in the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Information Server - Trusted Data for SAP
From the information provided in the in-depth interviews, Forrester has constructed a TEI framework for organizations considering implementation of IBM Information Server to support SAP environments. The objective is to identify the cost, benefit, and risk factors, and flexibility that affect the investment decision.
Last updated: 13 May 2008
Snap-in, Grid-Based Data Integration: IBM Information Server Blade (authored by IDC)
This paper explores problems associated with bringing data together from disparate sources to achieve better information coherence, operational efficiency, and effective governance. It looks at the utility of a grid computing approach in providing scalability and manageability for "data integration."
Last updated: 08 Feb 2008
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2007
IBM is in the Leader Quadrant of this MQ for Data Integration, to the right of Informatica, indicating stronger vision. Gartner: "IBM demonstrates the best vision in the market for extensive data integration capabilities . . ."
Last updated: 13 Dec 2007
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools, 2007
Read Gartner's insights on data quality technology.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2007
Hurwitz & Associates - Information as a Service: IBM Information Server
Learn how the advent of SOA has empowered IT managers to develop a new approach to turn data into a more powerful corporate asset, and how the implementation of information as a service is delivered by IBM Information Server.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
Information as a Service to the Enterprise
IDC presents considerations that should be made when developing an information as a service strategy for your organization and provides analysis of IBM's approach to information as a service. This paper also presents case studies of organizations leveraging information as a critical part of their SOA strategy.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise ETL, Q2 2007
Forrester Research, Inc. ranked IBM as the Leader in the Enterprise ETL space. ETL and data integration are no longer simply about data warehousing and business intelligence applications. Information management professionals demand more real-time and near real-time data integration capabilities.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
The Total Economic Impact of IBM Information Server
Forrester Research examined the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) of a telecommunications firm with the deployment of IBM Information Server. This study details the financial impact of its deployment and discusses the benefits such as single customer view and improved integration time.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2006
Announcement letters
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 provides extended analytics and simplified warehousing for small, departmental, and enterprise businesses
IBM® InfoSphere Warehouse makes it easier to discover business opportunities hidden in your data. It provides a comprehensive platform to design, optimize, and grow departmental data marts and enterprise data warehouses.
Last updated: 19 May 2009
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for z/OS V6.2 delivers log-based change data capture for real-time data integration
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for z/OS V6.2 provides real-time data integration across diverse data stores and platforms.
Last updated: 12 Aug 2008
IBM Information Server Change Data Capture for System z V5.4 delivers log-based change data capture for real-time data integration
IBM Information Server Change Data Capture for System z V5.4 provides real-time data integration across diverse data stores and platforms.
Last updated: 18 Apr 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture V6.2 and IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for Oracle Replication V3.1 deliver real-time data integration
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture V6.2 delivers real-time data integration across diverse data stores and platforms. IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for Oracle Replication V3.1 is a high-performance, bidirectional solution for Oracle environments.
Last updated: 18 Apr 2008
IBM Information Server FastTrack accelerates the translation of business requirements into data integration projects that solve strategic business problems
IBM Information Server FastTrack is a core module in the IBM Information Server integration platform that accelerates the translation of business requirements into completed data integration projects.
Last updated: 11 Mar 2008
Books
Driving Business Optimization with Trusted Information
BM InfoSphere and Cognos lead the industry by offering the breadth of capabilities required for the end-to-end management and delivery of trusted business information to ensure competitive success.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Briefs
IBM InfoSphere Discovery: Speed Time to Value for Information-Centric Projects
IBM InfoSphere Discovery speeds time to value & reduces risk for information-centric projects like data archival, consolidation, warehousing & MDM. It automates the complex process of data discovery covering every kind of data relationship replacing error-prone manual data inspection methods providing a 360° view.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
Accelerating an Information Agenda with IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools
This executive brief is designed to help customers understand how the IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools can help them accelerate their deployment of an Information Agenda.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Brochures
Detecting Insider Threat & Collusion with IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions
Learn about how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio helps organizations in all industries detect insider threat and collusion.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Clinical Analytics: Enabling an information-rich, healthcare-aware analytic environment
The InfoSphere Clinical Analytics solution enables an information-rich, healthcare-aware analytics environment, integrating and aggregating clinical information from multiple sources
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Jump Start Mid-Sized Warehousing and Departmental Reporting Implementations with IBM InfoSphere™ Balanced Warehouse™ C-Class Offerings
When it comes to business and technology, one size doesn’t fit all. Mid-sized businesses simply do not have massive IT teams and multi million dollar budgets. You need flexible, out-of-the-box technology solutions that are easy to implement and provide immediate value. IBM is listening!
Last updated: 01 Apr 2009
Get deeper insights faster: Implementing a data warehouse with the IBM Health Plan Data Models.
This executive brief discusses how the Health Plan Data Models can help you establish a platform to gain a more complete understanding of your members, providers, partners and thereby help you choose the best strategies.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM and Amdocs: A joint solution for managing customer and product data
Amdocs embedded IBM's InfoSphere software platform into its Enterprise Customer Hub (ECH) and Enterprise Product Center (EPC) solutions. Learn how communications providers can manage data effectively to obtain a single view of the customer and product, differentiate themselves from competitors and drive profitable growth.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Banking Data Warehouse General Information Manual
IBM Banking Data Warehouse General Information Manual explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Banking Process and Service Models General Information Manual
Explains the business value of building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for banking.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Financial Markets Industry Models General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for insurance.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Health Plan Data Model General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Industry Models for Financial Services – The Information Framework General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for banking.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Industry Models for Insurance – the Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, building a service-oriented architecture or new core system, or streamlining business processes using a proven, business-centric blueprint for insurance.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM Industry Models for Insurance - The Insurance Information Warehouse General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Retail Data Warehouse General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Take the fast path to greater information insight with the telecommunications data warehouse models from IBM
This executive brief discusses how TDW can help you establish a platform to gain a more complete understanding of your customers and business, and thereby help you choose the best strategies.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Telecommunications Data Warehouse (TDW) General Information Manual
Explains the business value of designing a performance management solution, comprised of a data warehouse and data marts or OLAP cubes, using a proven, business-centric blueprint.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
The IBM Financial Markets Industry Models: Greater insight for greater value
This executive brief explains how IBM can help your company leverage the Financial Markets Industry Models. In addition, it outlines the specific resources IBM has developed.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
The IBM Information Framework for the banking industry: Blueprint for SOA and Data Warehousing solution success
This executive brief explains how IBM can help your company leverage the IFW for the banking industry. In addition, it outlines the specific resources IBM has developed.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
The IBM Insurance Application Architecture: A blueprint for success
This executive brief explains how IBM can help your company leverage the Insurance Application Architecture. In addition, it outlines the specific resources IBM has developed, including the IAA process and service models.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
The IBM Retail Data Warehouse: harnessing the power of information
This executive brief discusses how RDW can help you establish a platform to gain a more complete understanding of your customers and business, and thereby help you choose the best strategies.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Maximize your mainframe's return on information - Delivering information you can trust with IBM Information Server for System z
IBM Information Server for System z is a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, transforms and delivers information from mainframe and distributed data sources alike to drive greater insight for the business without added IBM z/OS operational costs.
Last updated: 08 Oct 2007
Information Services Architecture Workshop
Ensure that appropriate information services for your SOA implementation aligns with the business and IT requirements for the organization. Leverage your information management technology.
Last updated: 14 Nov 2006
Derive more value from complex, heterogeneous information spread across systems – Delivering integrated information you can trust with IBM Information Server
IBM Information Server delivers all of the functions required to integrate, enrich and deliver information you can trust for key business initiatives. With rich functionality, broad connectivity to heterogeneous sources, and unified metadata, it provides a strong foundation for an enterprise information architecture.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2006
IBM Global Name Analytics
Best-of-breed name recognition technology from IBM.
Last updated: 18 Jul 2006
IBM Global Name Reference Encyclopedia
An interactive encyclopedia of culture-specific information about names, their use, their meanings, and their patterns of spelling variations.
Last updated: 18 Jul 2006
IBM Global Name Scoring
IBM Global Name Scoring improves the accuracy of name searching, transliteration, and the quality of identity verification initiatives by providing ranked search results.
Last updated: 18 Jul 2006
Case studies
Cognos: Delivering success one slice at a time - Performance Management at Papa Gino's
Learn how they are saving time and money with IBM Cognos software, while enhancing decision-making and customer service.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
Data sheets
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary
IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary allows data stewards to create and manage an authoritative vocabulary, enabling a common language between business and IT. This is a critical step to better align the efforts ofthe technologists with the goals of the business—a top priority for most CIOs.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2009
IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench: Providing end-to-end visibility of metadata
IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench provides a powerful metadata management interface that supports not only InfoSphere Information Server metadata but also other key metadata that play critical roles in data integration processes.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2009
Help reduce SAP data integration costs and risk with IBM InfoSphere Information Server Packs for SAP®
Leverage the IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP R/3 and SAP BW for repeatable, re-usable access and delivery of SAP data
Last updated: 21 Sep 2009
IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Understanding and analyzing your data
IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer can help you quickly and easily understand your data by providing data profiling as well as monitoring capabilities. These insights can help you accelerate information-based projects, from data warehousing to infrastructure consolidation to master data management and data governance.
Last updated: 08 Aug 2009
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server: Virtualizing access to your enterprise data to help increase business
InfoSphere Federation Server allows enterprises to respond faster to market-breaking changes, quickly adapt to new business and organizational models—such as mergers, acquisitions, internal restructuring and database migrations—and accelerate time to market for multiple-source applications.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Replication Server
Data replication is about making data available to the people and applications that need it. InfoSphere Replication Server provides a fast, secure, consistent delivery of data for any situation.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7
IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse software is a comprehensive solution for integrated dynamic warehousing that provides extended capabilities from design to analytics and visualization.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
High Availability Architecture Services Offering
This workshop shares IBM’s high availability standard practices and methodology with clients and implements the architectural modifications necessary for high availability processing using the DataStage parallel framework.
Last updated: 30 Sep 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture and InfoSphere Replication Server solutions
This white paper explains the IBM model for achieving data governance success, including new IBM software and services solutions to help make governing data easier, and offers concrete actions you can take today to help increase revenue, cut costs and reduce the risks associated with managing information.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
eClassroom: Instructor-Led Online Training that works!
eClassroom is Instructor-Led Online training during traditional continuing education evening hours.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2008
Education Plans: Efficient, Effective, and Just in Time Training
Education Plans are designed to take the guess work out of corporate training initiatives.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
Extended Learning: Practical Education in Your Environment
Post classroom training and pre implementation activities, Extended Learning offers customers the ability to bridge the gap to enable successful real world implementation.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
FlexLearning: Self-paced Learning at its Best
Learn about the InfoSphere FlexLearning offering and how it can compliment traditional classroom training.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
IBM Information Server FastTrack: Automating and accelerating data integration projects
This data sheet explains what IBM Information Server FastTrack is and how it works with the Information Server Platform to help enterprises accelerate collaborative development across user roles, products and geographies by automating efforts across multiple data integration tasks.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
Learning Services: Building Skills, Developing Experts
Explore the Learning Services offerings available to enable successful IPS product implementation.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
IBM Information Platform & Solution Services - SAP Data Migration Acceleration
This data sheet describes the value IBM IPS Services brings to customers considering an SAP Migration project. IPS provides extensive experience in SAP data migration and brings a strategic mentoring approach to each engagement.
Last updated: 07 Mar 2008
IBM InfoSphere Services – Version Migration Services
Version Migration Services is one of several Migration Offerings from IBM InfoSphere Services (formerly known as IBM Information Platform Solutions). With Version Migration Services, our highly skilled consultants apply their expertise to complete version migration of your business.
Last updated: 07 Mar 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture
Learn how IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture helps businesses make powerful real-time decisions, win new customers and improve operational performance. Providing heterogeneous support and incorporating native log-based change data capture technology it detects events as they occur, with no impact on performance.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for Oracle Replication
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for Oracle Replication is a high-performance, bi-directional replication solution for Oracle environments that mirrors data between different versions of Oracle, allowing you to upgrade one of your systems while you continue to operate off a secondary system.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
IBM Information Server: Connectivity for enterprise applications
IBM's Information Server platform enables businesses and institutions to unlock the value of data in their enterprises. Included are a rich set of application connectivity technologies that allow access to enterprise applications for the purpose of integrating data across the enterprise.
Last updated: 24 Jan 2008
IBM Information Server, Version 8: Manage and leverage business metadata
IBM Information Server's WebSphere Business Glossary product provides context to information technology assets, allowing business and technical users to share a common understanding of information assets, and puts business users in control of business metadata.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2007
IBM Information Server: Easing SAP implementations, migrations and instance consolidation
IBM Information Server provides a reliable, repeatable foundation for understanding, cleansing, integrating and delivering high-quality trusted information from complex source environments into a new SAP solution.
Last updated: 29 Jun 2007
IBM Information Server: Expanding the scope of SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
IBM Information server helps Netweaver BI by providing the trusted foundation for effectively combining SAP data with trusted data from all applications in the enterprise thereby expanding the scope of Netweaver BI from an SAP application specific business intelligence system to a corporate enterprise datawarehouse.
Last updated: 29 Jun 2007
IBM Information Server: Managing data quality in SAP Customer Relationship Management
IBM Information Server provides a proven foundation for helping companies ensure that only accurate, high-quality information makes it into SAP CRM. Learn how the IBM Information Server Data Quality Module for SAP provides an SAP-certified real-time interface to data quality logic.
Last updated: 29 Jun 2007
IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer Profiling and Analysis Reports
This 24-page collateral contains sample profiling and analysis reports generated from IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer. The included reports show a range of functionality for WebSphere Information Analyzer and the type of reports that are most commonly generated.
Last updated: 16 Apr 2007
IBM Information Server, Version 8.0: Managing Information as a Service
Websphere Information Services Director (WISD) for IBM Information Server enables developers to take data integration logic built using IBM Information Server and publish it as an "always-on" service- in minutes.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS V9.5: Federating mainframe data
Leverage metadata-driven System z data integration without proprietary mainframe programming.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
IBM InfoSphere Replication Server, version 9.5: Replicating enterprise data
Learn how IBM InfoSphere Replication Server can distribute, consolidate and synchronize information across the enterprise.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
InfoSphere Data Event Publisher offerings, Version 9.5: Publishing changed data
Learn how to leverage data events to drive business integration and data warehousing.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
IBM WebSphere Replication Server, Version 9.1 and IBM WebSphere Data Event Publisher, Version 9.1
IBM WebSphere Replication Server Version 9.1 and IBM WebSphere Data Event Publisher Version 9.1 provide state-of-the-art solutions for today's demanding data placement requirements.
Last updated: 01 Nov 2006
IBM Information Server, Version 8.0
WebSphere Federation Server enables you to access data anywhere in your enterprise, no matter where it resides, regardless of what format it is in, regardless of vendor, and without creating new databases and without disruptive changes to existing ones . . . all while looking to the end user like a single database!
Last updated: 15 Oct 2006
IBM Information Server, Version 8.0: Transforming and delivering data
The first step in deploying new enterprise applications is to be absolutely certain that source data is reliable, relevant and readily available in a consistent form across the enterprise. WebSphere DataStage, a core product module of IBM® Information Server, addresses this critical need for enterprise data transformation.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2006
IBM Information Server 8.0: Cleansing Data and Managing Data Quality
Organizations must ensure that strategic systems deliver accurate, complete information that business users across the enterprise can trust. IBM Information Server discovers relationships among data elements in enterprise and Internet environments, in batch and real time.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2006
IBM WebSphere DataStage for z/OS Version 7.5.1
Mainframe computers play a key role in many enterprises, but integrating information from multiple sources with different formats is difficult. The key to success is a data integration platform that can handle data in its native form, leverage a parallel processing framework and provide a graphical, codeless design tool.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2006
IBM WebSphere DataStage Version 7.5.2 - Transformation using MapStage
IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender for DataStage extends the core integration capabilities of IBM WebSphere DataStage to make it easy to include complex or semi-structured data types in standard WebSphere DataStage integration processes.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2006
IBM WebSphere Federation Server, Version 9.1: Virtualizing access to your enterprise data
WebSphere Federation Server enables you to access data anywhere in your enterprise, no matter where it resides, regardless of what format it is in, regardless of vendor, and without creating new databases and without disruptive changes to existing ones . . . all while looking to the end user like a single database!
Last updated: 22 Aug 2006
Information centers
IBM Information Server Information Center
This information center contains complete information for three product modules: IBM Metadata Workbench, IBM WebSphere® Information Analyzer, and IBM WebSphere Information Services Director.
Last updated: 26 Jan 2009
IBM WebSphere Classic information center
This information center contains information on IBM WebSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS Version 9.1, IBM WebSphere Classic Replication Server for z/OS Version 9.1, IBM WebSphere Classic Data Event Publisher for z/OS Version 9.1, and IBM WebSphere Data Integration Classic Connector for z/OS Version 9.1.
Last updated: 22 Jan 2008
Newsletters
Performance Perspectives Newsletter
Your source for news, trends and opinions on Information On Demand and the Information Agenda, bringing original, insightful content and exclusive interviews to decision-makers in IT, Finance and a wide spectrum of industries.
Last updated: 20 Jun 2009
Presentations
Data Governance Assessment Tool
This short self assessment will help provide a thorough evaluation of your organization's data governance capabilities.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Solution sheets
Customer care for the airline industry
IBM presents a customer care for aviation solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Customer care for the hospitality industry
IBM presents a customer care for hospitality solution that combines business know-how and a flexible framework—and does not require complete replacement of existing systems.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
White papers
Learn about the benefits of a hybrid data warehousing environment for maximum flexibility using IBM InfoSphere Federation Server
This whitepaper describes the concept of a hybrid data warehousing environment for maximum flexibility using IBM InfoSphere Federation Server.
Last updated: 21 Sep 2009
Delivering Trusted Information with IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools
This white paper provides an overview of how the IBM® InfoSphere™ Foundation Tools, the broader IBM InfoSphere software portfolio and the IBM Industry Models provide organizations with the open tools and consistent processes to design and build optimized information architectures to deliver trusted information.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
Fight Fraud, Reduce Risk, and Streamline Compliance: IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions for Financial Services Organizations
Learn about how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio helps financial services institutions solve some of the most pressing issues today by building a complete understanding of their customers, employees, vendors, external threats, as well as their interactions with them.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions for State and Local Government
Learn about how the IBM InfoSphere Entity Analytic Solutions portfolio helps state and local government solve some of the most pressing issues today by building a complete understanding of your citizens.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
Making smarter use of your information assets in tough times
The IBM portfolio of tools covers the full spectrum of requirements for integrated & high-quality information. End-to-end capabilities deliver trusted information in a single portfolio offering; giving enterprises the tools they need to implement the three Rs for maximum business advantage in tough times.
Last updated: 15 May 2009
IBM Fast Track for your data warehouse
By helping companies fast-track their data warehousing initiatives using a set of products and services designed to get data warehouses up and running rapidly, IBM can help deliver dramatically better information that enables innovation and responsiveness.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Information Insight: From the Department to the Enterprise with IBM InfoSphere Warehouse
Through dynamic warehousing, IBM can help companies extract insight from virtually any type of date--helping to deliver the right information at the right time so business leaders can make the right decision.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Information On Demand Framework for Business Intelligence
IBM provides end-to-end information infrastructure capabilities for business intelligence (BI) through its industry-leading solutions.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Innovating with Information
This paper investigates the challenges of building systems that bring business intelligence to the masses, and how an integrated set of products and services from IBM can help meet that goal.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Leveraging Track & Trace in the Pharmaceutical Industry
This industry whitepaper explains how the pharmaceutical industry can leverage IBM traceability technology to solve challenges in multiple use cases beyond pedigree compliance such as supply-chain visibility, reverse logistics, and supply-chain integrity.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
Planning for affordable growth in the data warehouse with IBM Balanced Warehouse D5100
To meet the challenges associated with using rapidly expanding data stores to generate BI, companies need flexible data warehousing solutions that can grow with the organization. Through IBM Balanced Warehouse offerings, IBM can help organizations plan for affordable growth in their data warehouses.
Last updated: 14 Apr 2009
IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server 2.0 – A performance profile
This paper describes the performance characteristics of IBM's InfoSphere Traceability Server V2.0. InfoSphere Traceability Server is an implementation of the EPCglobal Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS 1.0) specification.
Last updated: 18 Dec 2008
Advances in Data Warehouse Performance
Reduce query response time from hours to seconds, support real time data warehousing, optimize your storage and lower operating costs.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Data warehousing: Dive deeper into more kinds of information for greater business insight.
Deliver insight to a broad set of users, potentially improving decision making across the enterprise. Extract value from information that was previously untapped. Help reduce the cost of business reporting and analysis.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Performance Management with Trusted Information: How IBM InfoSphere software can enhance your investment in IBM Cognos
Examine the business rationale for deploying a Cognos-based performance management solution using proven, information architecture. Look at challenges such as how to avoid dirty data and a lack of consolidated reporting. Learn how IBM clients using IBM InfoSphere software, have overcome them and how to get started.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
The business value of a business glossary
This white paper explains why businesses deploy a business glossary and what value it can add to an organization. This paper is designed to help organizations understand not only what a glossary is but also what the best way is to approach such a new initiative to ensure its success across a company.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2008
Getting Started with Data Governance
Achieve data governance success and learn concrete actions you can take today to help increase revenue, cut costs and reduce the risks associated with managing information.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Simplify integration with unified metadata
This whitepaper explains how InfoSphere Information Server manages metadata including how it is stored, enhanced and exchanged with each of the users involved on an integration project.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
IBM InfoSphere Software: Trusted Information
Learn how you can use IBM's InfoSphere software and integrated platform for trusted information in your organization.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2008
Enabling right-time insight for performance management
Learn how IBM’s change data capture technology can be used in conjunction with IBM’s performance management solutions from Cognos to provide access to the trusted information that systems and employees need to make informed decisions at the speed of business.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Balanced Optimization
Address customer demands for increased flexibility in handling data transformations as well as maximize their investment in parallel database systems.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
Innovating with Information on IBM System z
This paper investigates the challenges of building systems that bring business intelligence to the masses, and how an integrated set of products and services from IBM can help meet that goal.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
The Case For Data Profiling
Learn compelling reasons for why data profiling is a critical activity that should take place in the IT enterprise. Learn about reactive vs proactive data quality and the critical importance of Metadata as well as data profiling -why it's important and the steps it involves.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2008
Information as a Strategic Asset
The paper presents the case for Trusted Data to SAP centric enterprises. It outlines a trusted information strategy and characteristics of a trusted information platform to help customers leverage their data as a strategic asset.
Last updated: 31 Jul 2008
The seven essential elements to achieve highest performance & scalability in information integration
This paper highlights the unique advantages of InfoSphere Information Server: data pipelining, dynamic & in-flight (re-) partitioning, design once & deploy flexibly, supporting parallel databases, real-time data processing, performance optimization tooling, and extensible framework.
Last updated: 11 Jul 2008
IBM / Gavilan Research Associates 2008 MetaData Market Survey Summary of Findings Whitepaper
This whitepaper reviews the results and findings of the 2008 Gavilan Research Associates and IBM Metadata Market Survey. The survey was designed to investigate and better understand the top metadata management needs, challenges, issues and priorities within Global 5000 companies.
Last updated: 30 Jun 2008
IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Simplify integration with unified metadata
This white paper explains how the IBM InfoSphere Information Server helps to simplify integration challenges through unifying metadata. It discusses the different types of architecture technologies which companies have used to tackle the complex integration problem unsuccessfully and why IBM took a different approach.
Last updated: 30 Jun 2008
Delivering high-value SOA information services.
Building Applications with a Services Oriented Architecture using information-integration services and master data services.
Last updated: 03 Jun 2008
Using information as a service to facilitate business-process automation.
Combining IBM Information Server with IBM WebSphere® Process Server creates data-driven business processes that can result in a component based, standards driven, services oriented implementation.
Last updated: 03 Jun 2008
IBM Fast Track for your data warehouse - Add momentum to your data warehouse implementation
Reduce the time to value for data warehousing projects through Fast Track deployment options for the IBM Information Framework. Successful, rapid deployment is enabled using a set of products and services designed to get data warehouses up and running rapidly.
Last updated: 21 Apr 2008
Delivering information integration with IBM DB2 Warehouse
This white paper describes how you can use IBM® Information Server and IBM DB2® Warehouse software to create a complete solution for Dynamic Warehousing.
Last updated: 06 Feb 2008
A leading solution for a leading technology: IBM Information Server and DataMirror Transformation Server for trusted real-time information
This whitepaper offers insight on IBM's acquisition of DataMirror and how this acquisition strengthens IBM's Information On Demand initiatives. It provides an overview of how the integration of Change Data Capture technology extends IBM's industry-leading information integration platform - IBM Information Server.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
Evaluating real-time data integration solutions
This paper examines the business issues that drive organizations to consider real-time data integration as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to solving the problem. It also provides an overview of IBM's solutions for real-time, low impact data integration.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
How IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture can be an integral part of an event-driven architecture and service oriented architecture
This whitepaper offers information on how IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture is a vital requirement for event-driven architecture and service oriented architecture. It highlights the strategy and architecture and the unique attributes of IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture for z/OS® single scrape capabilities
Learn about IBM's data replication solution that integrates data in real-time, bi-directionally between DB2 running on z/OS and different databases on other platforms. It highlights the benefits and advantages of its single scrape capability.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
Protect and integrate with confidence - Continuous information protection and integration for IBM® System i™
This paper provides information real-time solutions for System i integration and protection. It examines features of an effective solution, factors to consider when measuring the impact on System i environment, and various potential integration architectures, including ways of providing real-time data to WebSphere.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
Selecting a data distribution solution for IBM System i environments
This whitepaper focuses on the need for data distribution and the challenges involved in doing so. It shows how IBM Information Server and Change Data Capture technology is an effective solution to meet these challenges.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2008
IBM InfoSphere FastTrack: The need for speed - accelerating data integration projects
This white paper explains how IBM Information Server FastTrack can help enterprises accelerate the deployment of data integration projects by simplifying and improving the communication process between the business analyst - who thinks in business logic - and the developer - who thinks in code.
Last updated: 08 Jan 2008
Dynamic Business Intelligence: Leveraging mainframe assets to help steer the business
One the most versatile assets many organizations have in their IT infrastructure is the mainframe. Learn how the latest IBM System z capabilities could allow the mainframe to play a more central role in a coordinated business intelligence strategy.
Last updated: 25 Sep 2007
Enterprise Information Integration: Deployment Best Practices for Low Cost Implementation
Learn how IBM has combined the power of world class information integration software with the flexibility of IBM BladeCenter and grid computing virtualization technology that is prepacked, tested and optimized for faster deployment to enjoy improved time to value to create a single view of enterprise information.
Last updated: 06 Aug 2007
Information integration: Challenges and benefits for enterprise application upgrades, consolidations and migrations
As a proven platform for helping companies with the complexities associated with SAP implementations, IBM Information Server provides a reliable, repeatable foundation for understanding, cleansing, integrating and delivering high-quality trusted information from complex source environments into a new SAP solution.
Last updated: 29 Jun 2007
Accelerating Data Warehouse Deployments with IBM Information Server and Industry Data Models
This executive brief provides an overview of how IBM Industry Data Models and IBM® Information Server provide a powerful and flexible infrastructure that supports the five steps for creating a dynamic warehouse.
Last updated: 23 Jun 2007
Data Migration: The Often Overlooked Critical Path to OSS/BSS Consolidation
The role of OSS/BSS data is the lifeblood of a service provider. The importance of eliminating functionality silos and making data more globally accessible is increasingly important for competitive advantages. Learn how IBM Information Server facilitates data migration critical for the success of telcom service providers.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
IBM Information Integration Solutions for Healthcare
This white paper provides insight on Healthcare industry challenges and how IBM helps Healthcare organizations address information integration challenges for improved operational efficiency and quality care.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
IBM WebSphere QualityStage: Superior technology produces superior results
In order to enable critical business applications to provide an accurate picture of your enterprise, IBM WebSphere QualityStage can automatically re-engineer and match all types of customer, product, and enterprise data - in batch or at the transaction level in real-time.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
Is Your Data Protected? Safeguarding critical business information and customer privacy with data masking and IBM Information Server
The key to generating consumer trust is effective data security. This whitepaper discusses IBM's approach to protecting customer privacy through data masking, using IBM Information Server.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
Pathway to Master Data Management with Master Data Integration with IBM
Master Data Integration provides a single integration infrastructure necessary to solve implementation and ongoing operational data challenges across any industry, business function and scope of business data.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2006
Driving information-led business innovation with IBM Information Server
IBM Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform that helps companies derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. It enables companies to integrate disparate data and deliver trusted information wherever and whenever. Learn more about its full capabilities here.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2006
A process for rationalizing master customer data: A joint whitepaper by Accenture and IBM
For most businesses, customer information is an extremely important and valuable asset. However, this information is usually dispersed across multiple operational systems. Learn about a proven process for rationalizing master customer data across those various systems that independently maintains it.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2006
Designing an on demand data warehouse
Companies have made an enormous investment in data warehousing to improve business decisions. Now you can apply the concepts of a service oriented architecture (SOA) to your data warehouse to deliver information as a service to the business and allow your data warehouse to assume a more operational role. Learn how.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2006
IBM Information Integration Solutions: Unlocking the business value of information for the automotive industry
Companies in the automotive industry need reliable access to timely, accurate information about every facet of the enterprise. However, with automakers focused on cutting operational costs and increasing investment in new products, many are realizing that their core IT systems are simply not sufficient for their needs.
Last updated: 27 Sep 2006
The next phase of federation technology: IBM WebSphere Federation Server V9.1
This whitepaper discusses how the new release Version 9.1 of WebSphere Federation Server supports the growing industry category called Enterprise Information Integration (EII). The whitepaper summarizes the key capabilities of Version 9.1
Last updated: 30 Aug 2006
Advanced Global Name Recognition Technology
This paper highlights the issues, requirements and technologies available for automated advanced global name recognition.
Last updated: 12 Jul 2006
Global Name Recognition: Names that Sound Alike But Are Not Spelled Alike
This paper discusses the use of phonological information about names into the process of automatic name searching.
Last updated: 12 Jul 2006
Profiling: Take the first step toward assuring data quality
WebSphere Information Analyzer brings automation to the critical and fundamental task of data source analysis, expediting comprehensive data analysis, reducing the time to value, and minimizing overall costs and resources for critical data integration projects.
Last updated: 13 Jan 2006
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