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Abstracts
Executive Summary :Business Case for Enterprise Data Integration Strategy:Comparing IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Open Source Tools -International Technology Group (Feb 2013)
This 5-page executive summary compares the economics of two different information integration models: Industry leading commercial software like InfoSphere Information Server and do-it-yourself open source solutions. This summary provides detailed analysis on the total costs and economic value of both approaches.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Analyst reports
Business Case for Enterprise Data Integration Strategy:Comparing IBM InfoSphere Information Server and Open Source Tools -International Technology Group (Feb 2013)
This 17-page report compares the economics of two different information integration models: Industry leading commercial software like InfoSphere Information Server and do-it-yourself open source solutions. This report provides detailed analysis on the total costs and economic value of both approaches.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
IBM InfoSphere® Business Information Exchange -Aligning the goals of business and IT for better information governance and trusted information
Business Information Exchange can help you increase levels of trust and govern your information in the new era of computing. This solutions brief highlights the advantages of creating a glossary, capturing metadata, and understanding your data assets completely.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Why Information Governance Must be Addressed Now
Aberdeen has long illustrated the benefits of well-managed, trustworthy data, and the problems associated with poor data quality. As data volumes rapidly expand and data environments become more complex, what were once small nuisances evolve into massive, company-wide problems.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Critical Capabilities: Data Delivery Styles for Data Integration Tools
This paper discusses the fact that enterprises adopt more data integration styles as use cases diversify to support emergent analytics and big data, and it can help IT leaders pick the tool best suited to their conventional and emerging data delivery needs
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage 9.1
Promote and provide trusted data for high-value applications and analytics - IBM InfoSphere QualityStage helps turn chaotic data into a dependable asset that organizations can leverage to generate real business value. Core capabilities include data investigation, standardization, data survivorship and data enrichment.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
The Business Case for Data Quality- A Bloor Research Analyst Report
The Business Case for Data Quality, a Bloor Research Analyst Report discusses the the value of having accurate information in four areas: for operational purposes, for decision making, for regulatory compliance and for a variety of technical reasons.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Creating a trusted data warehouse using IBM InfoSphere Information Server
This white paper describes a recipe for creating a new warehouse, driven by the needs of the business and developed through collaboration between business and technical teams.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2012
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools
IBM appears in the Leader Quadrant of this MQ for Data Quality Tools, appearing to the right of Informatica, indicating stronger vision. Gartner: "By promoting IBM's platform vision, ubiquitous data quality functionality becomes a key component of the information management portfolio."
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
TDWI Checklist Report - Seven Steps to Implementing Data Discovery: Accelerating Smarter Information Management
The report examines role of data discovery in meeting critical information management objectives for understanding data quality and enabling master data management (MDM), data consolidation, and sensitive data protection.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
TDWI best practices Report - Next Generation Data Integration
Data integration (DI) is a rich set of powerful techniques, including ETL (extract, transform, and load), data federation, replication, synchronization, changed data capture, data quality, master data management, natural language processing, business-to-business data exchange, and more.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
Tivoli’s Predictive Analytics Strategy - Analyst report from Ptak/Noel
IBM customers are significantly improving business outcomes by applying analytics to business projects. Similar results should be achievable by enterprise IT organizations when analytics technologies are applied to IT-specific challenges and operational processes.
Last updated: 26 Jul 2011
Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Read a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Information Server
Last updated: 28 Oct 2010
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
Announcement letters
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication V10.2 and InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V10.2 help streamline business processes through low-latency data replication
The change data capture technology of InfoSphere Data Replication V10.2 and InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V10.2 can deliver real-time heterogeneous data integration across the enterprise, enabling you to respond to business-relevant data changes.
Last updated: 26 Mar 2013
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage modules cleanse, verify, and enrich address data for IBM InfoSphere QualityStage V8.5 customers
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage product modules cleanse, verify, and enrich address data to help your organization derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across systems.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere Discovery V4.6 delivers enhanced information governance capabilities and tighter integration with the InfoSphere portfolio of products
InfoSphere Discovery helps you accelerate information-centric project deployment and reduce risk by creating a comprehensive view of data relationships across heterogeneous sources.
Last updated: 06 Dec 2011
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications V7.0 helps improve and automate SAP application integration
nfoSphere® Information Server Pack for SAP Applications V7.0, formerly named InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP R/3, is designed to optimize time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership by automating your integration effort for SAP applications.
Last updated: 06 Dec 2011
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect V7.6 lets you discover, model, visualize, relate, and standardize data assets across your enterprise
InfoSphere Data Architect is a powerful collaborative data design tool. With InfoSphere Data Architect, you can discover, model, visualize, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets across your enterprise.
Last updated: 01 Nov 2011
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication, Change Data Capture, and Change Data Delivery enable IBM Netezza appliances to be used as targets for applying data
Provides a single offering for a wide variety of data replication solutions, ranging from continuous availability, active/active databases, and live reporting to database migration
Last updated: 01 Nov 2011
IBM Netezza appliances make advanced analytics on data simpler, faster, and more accessible
IBM Netezza appliances deliver the proven performance, value, and simplicity you need to dive deep into your growing data assets. You are able to easily and cost effectively scale your business intelligence and analytical infrastructure to leverage deeper insights from growing data volumes throughout the organization.
Last updated: 01 Nov 2011
IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight V8.1 offers an identity and social network analysis platform to help discover threats and fraud across large volumes of data in real time
Offers a new user experience, better alert management, and web service integration among other new features. IBM InfoSphere® Identity Insight V8.1, an agile and scalable solution for identity and social network analysis.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2011
IBM InfoSphere Information Server V8.7 enhances information integration infrastructure with world-class governance
Provides a highly scalable, security-rich, and robust data integration platform designed to simplify your data integration needs.
Last updated: 18 Oct 2011
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture V6.5.1, InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V6.5.1, and InfoSphere Data Replication V10.1.1
Helps streamline business processes through low-latency data replication
Last updated: 13 Sep 2011
IBM InfoSphere IMS Replication for z/OS enhanced to better manage IMS to IMS replication and better integrate with InfoSphere Change Data Capture and DataStage
In addition to supporting replication of data between IMS databases, IBM InfoSphere IMS Replication for z/OS, V10.1.1 enables IMS as a source for IBM's InfoSphere Change Data Capture solutions.
Last updated: 06 Sep 2011
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for DB2 for z/OS , V10.1 delivers high-volume, low-latency data replication technologies and solutions for enhanced flexibility and choice
IBM® InfoSphere® Data Replication for DB2® for z/OS® now packages three world-class data replication products in a single offering, giving you considerable flexibility in your choice of data replication technologies and solutions.
Last updated: 16 Aug 2011
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication V10.1 delivers real-time data replication for continuous availability, information integration, and more for distributed platforms
IBM® InfoSphere® Data Replication V10.1 packages IBM's world-class data replication products for distributed platforms into a single offering, giving clients considerable flexibility in their choice of data replication technologies and solutions.
Last updated: 16 Aug 2011
IBM Banking and Financial Markets Industry Models V8.4, IBM Banking Industry Models V8.4, and IBM Insurance Information Warehouse V8.4 designed to deliver more cost-efficient data and SOA solutions
Offer a set of deliverables consisting of various models that are rich in regulatory and business content. These models provide guidance that enables key roles in a warehouse or service-oriented architecture (SOA) project to better understand what the products' solution deliverables are and how to use them in practice.
Last updated: 26 Jul 2011
IBM InfoSphere classic data replication and federation solutions for z/OS enable near real-time data replication and federation of nonrelational data
Provides enterprise-class capabilities to enable analytic solutions that turn data complexity into insight cost-effectively through massive scale-out data processing and analysis on commonly available hardware, with built-in resiliency and fault tolerance.
Last updated: 24 May 2011
IBM InfoSphere Information Server V8.5 Ready to Launch for SAP Applications
Ofers foundation of trusted, quality data for SAP to help businesses make better decisions
Last updated: 10 May 2011
IBM InfoSphere DataStage Pack for Data Masking V8.5 helps reduce compliance costs and security risks by masking sensitive data in ETL processes
enables clients looking for specific data masking-only capabilities to address compliance requirements for an extract, transform, and load (ETL)-specific project.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2011
IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture V6.5 and IBM InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V6.5 help deliver real-time data integration
InfoSphere Change Data Capture V6.5 and InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V6.5 play a distinguished role in capturing and delivering data across enterprise systems in real time.
Last updated: 14 Sep 2010
IBM Industry Models Banking Data Warehouse V8.3, IBM Industry Models for Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse V8.3, IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Pack for Market and Campaign Insight V8.2 update
Updates for IBM Industry Models for Banking Data Warehouse & IBM Industry Models for Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse are now available as components of IBM Industry Models V8.3. In addition, updates are available for IBM InfoSphere™ Warehouse Pack for Market and Campaign Insight V8.2.
Last updated: 15 Jun 2010
IBM Health Plan Data Model V8.2 helps accelerate development of health care industry solutions
This data model delivers industry expertise and regulatory best practices in a form usable by both business and IT, enabling IT to implement projects more quickly.
Last updated: 15 Dec 2009
IBM InfoSphere FastTrack V8.1.1 accelerates the translation of business requirements into data integration projects that help solve strategic business problems
An announcement letter for IBM InfoSphere FastTrack V8.1.1
Last updated: 29 Sep 2009
IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server V2.5 with Returnable Container Management is a platform for track, trace and sensor information and helps customers protect their investment in reusable assets
An announcement letter for IBM InfoSphere Traceability Server V2.5 with Returnable Container Management.
Last updated: 29 Sep 2009
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect V8.1
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is a powerful collaborative data design tool. With InfoSphere Data Architect, you can discover, model, visualize, relate, standardize, and integrate diverse and distributed data assets across your enterprise.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication V10.1.3 and InfoSphere Federation Server V10.1 deliver enhanced data integration solutions
InfoSphere® Data Replication V10.1.3 and InfoSphere Federation Server V10.1 offer a foundation for world-class heterogeneous data integration solutions to help you address your data integration needs.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server V9.7
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server V9.7, InfoSphere Replication Server V9.7, and InfoSphere Data Event Publisher V9.7 expand the capabilities of IBM's enterprise information integration solutions for virtualized integrated access of heterogeneous data, high availability of data, and high-speed, low-latency data replication.
Last updated: 21 Jul 2009
IBM InfoSphere Information Server V8.7 simplified offerings for data integration, data quality, and business alignment deliver faster time to value
InfoSphere Information Server is a comprehensive information integration & governance platform that helps clients create, manage, & deliver information where it is needed in a timely manner. Includes advanced governance capabilities & robust data integration platform designed to simplify your data integration needs.
Last updated: 21 Jul 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
Books
IBM InfoSphere: A Platform for Big Data Governance and Process Data Governance
We now live in an age of seemingly unlimited data. Information needs to be trusted in order to be acted upon. That is the role of Information Governance: to create trusted information to make big data analytics more successful. This ebook discusses this topic in detail.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
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: 28 Feb 2012
Briefs
IBM Healthcare ProviderData Warehouse models
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server enables enterprises to overcome these challenges by accessing information through a virtual server, which allows administrators and other data consumers to view and manipulate data across the enterprise as if from a single database.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2012
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server: Leverage industry-leading data federation capabilities no matter where your data resides or what format it is in
In today’s enterprises, different portions of an organization often end up using different database management systems to store and search their critical data. Evolving technology, mergers, acquisitions, geographic distribution and the inevitable decentralization that results from growth all contribute to this divergence.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2012
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server
IBM InfoSphere Federation Server enables enterprises to overcome these challenges by accessing information through a virtual server, which allows administrators and other data consumers to view and manipulate data across the enterprise as if from a single database.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2012
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication
The IBM InfoSphere Data Replication solution delivers outstanding capabilities for loading real-time information into a data warehouse or operational data store, which can help organizations enhance business agility and visibility into key processes.
Last updated: 01 Jul 2012
InfoSphere Data Replication for DB2 for z/OS
The InfoSphere Data Replication for DB2 solution for z/OS packages multiple leading data replication technologies from IBM for the z/OS platform into a single offering. It delivers the benefits of two powerful IBM data replication technologies: change data capture (CDC) and queue-based replication (Q Replication).
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Building a trusted data warehouse: IBM InfoSphere software and IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances
IBM® InfoSphere® data integration software and IBM Netezza® data warehouse appliances work together to deliver breakthrough analytics based on trusted information. It is designed to help ensure that information loaded into IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance is complete, accurate, timely and in context for analysis.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
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
Brochures
IBM Health Care Provider Data Warehouse
Helps establish a platform to gain a more complete understanding of your patients, practitioners, assets, facilities and payers, thereby helping you to choose the best strategies for aligning IT with business goals, offering differentiated products and services, streamlining operations etc.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2011
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
IBM Global Name Analytics
Best-of-breed name recognition technology from IBM.
Last updated: 18 Jul 2006
Case studies
Scotiabank satisfies client demand for real-time reporting capabilities
Working with IBM, Scotiabank created a separate data model dedicated entirely to report generation. IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture facilitates real-time synchronization between Scotiabank’s OLTP and core banking systems and its new OLAP database.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2012
Data sheets
IBM InfoSphere Data Click
InfoSphere Data Click can enhance business agility and streamline access to information in as few as two clicks. It enables organizations to access information at tremendous speeds and optimize its utilization to provides an innovative and agile self-service data integration capability.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
For many companies, SAP applications are mission-critical, operating many of the processes that keep the business running. Migration and consolidation projects driven by implementations, system upgrades, mergers and acquisitions and cost-saving initiatives to consolidate legacy applications.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
InfoSphere Information Server packages: Support trusted, governed information through comprehensive information integration
IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a market-leading data integration platform that enables organizations to meet their trusted information requirements.It enables data integration, data quality and the exchange of business information across an organization to deliver trusted information to the business.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2012
IBM InfoSphere Information Server: Understanding and analyzing your data
Understanding and addressing data quality: What price tag would you place on the value of truly understanding the data sources of your data-driven project? Learn how to quickly and easily understand data by offering data quality assessment, data quality monitoring and flexible data rule design and analysis capabilities.
Last updated: 01 Jun 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
IBM InfoSphere Data Readiness Assessment for SAP applications Drive high-quality, high-margin SAP initiatives
Accelerate SAP implementations by verifying data quality, completeness and reliability with the IBM® InfoSphere® Data Readiness Assessment (DRA) for SAP
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
IBM InfoSphere FastTrack - Streamline collaboration between business and IT
IBM InfoSphere FastTrack helps automate the workflow of data integration projects. It helps maximize team collaboration, facilitates automation and helps ensure projects are completed successfully and on time.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
Deliver actionable business with 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: 27 Feb 2012
IBM InfoSphere Information Server connector for IBM Netezza Performance Server: Delivering tight connectivity to speed time to value
This brief provides an overview of the deep integration that is now available between InfoSphere Information Server and IBM Netezza Performance Server Data Warehouse Appliances.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere Data Readiness Assessment for SAP applications - Drive high-quality, high-margin SAP initiatives
Accelerate SAP implementations by verifying data quality, completeness and reliability with the IBM® InfoSphere® Data Readiness Assessment (DRA) for SAP
Last updated: 11 Jul 2011
IBM InfoSphere DataStage- Enterprise-scale data integration transformation and delivery
IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® integrates data across multiple and high volumes of data sources and target applications. Get a deeper view into key capabilities and productivity features offered within this market leading solution.
Last updated: 04 Jul 2011
IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server for z/OS - Provide fast, automated SQL access to mainframe data
Metadata-driven System z data integration without proprietary mainframe programming
Last updated: 16 May 2011
Accelerate time to value for your strategic data integration platform
IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.5 offers innovative features and product advancements that take your business and IT collaboration, data integration sophistication, and ability to support your mission-critical deployments to a new level.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2010
Information Server Install Package Services Offering
This packaged offering for Information Server is an expert consulting service offering to ensure a seamless low risk approach to installing the Information Server product suite to support a larger project initiative.
Last updated: 30 Nov 2009
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage: Investigate, cleanse and manage high-quality data to deliver better business results
Organizations must ensure that strategic systems deliver accurate, complete information that business users across the enterprise can trust. IBM InfoSphere Information Server discovers relationships among data elements in enterprise and Internet environments, in batch and real time.
Last updated: 15 Oct 2009
Leverage Salesforce.com data with IBM InfoSphere Information Server
This datasheet outlines the main features and benefits of the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for Salesforce.com and how it helps provide a single view of on-premise data and salesforce data in the cloud.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2009
Data Flow and Job Design Services Offering: Establishing standard practices for job design
This workshop helps clients establish standard practices for the design and development of parallel jobs, using IBM InfoSphere DataStage (formerly InfoSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition) to apply standard practices to clients’ environment, business and technical requirements.
Last updated: 30 Sep 2008
Data Stage Administration, Management & Production Automation Services Offering
This workshop provides customers with a set of proven standard practices for integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage into a production infrastructure (monitoring, scheduling, auditing and change management).
Last updated: 30 Sep 2008
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
Information Discovery Workshop
This workshop is targeted for clients who are new to IBM information Integration Solutions and have a defined need, but may not be sure how to resolve a particular problem.
Last updated: 30 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
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
Learning Services: Building Skills, Developing Experts
Explore the Learning Services offerings available to enable successful IPS product implementation.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
Health Check Services Offering: Evaluating project readiness & improving infrastructure performance
This workshop is targeted to clients engaged in development efforts that are not progressing according to plan, clients seeking validation of proposed plans prior to the commencement of new projects or clients interested in assessing and optimizing performance.
Last updated: 30 Sep 2007
Demos
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Demo - A Look at How IBM's Comprehensive Information Integration Platform Delivers Trusted Information
This flash demo shows business users and IT professionals how IBM InfoSphere Information Server can be used to understand, cleanse, transform, and deliver information across their organizations.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2010
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Overview
InfoSphere Information Server is IBM’s market-leading data integration platform that helps you understand, cleanse, transform and deliver trusted information to your critical business initiatives. This webinar provides an overview of this comprehensive offering.
Last updated: 01 Aug 2006
Solution sheets
Building A Trusted Data Warehouse
Companies use data warehouses to manage very large amounts of information from across the enterprise, providing users with fast access to important information to help them gain insight and drive innovation. The PureData System for Analytics integrates database, server and storage in a single appliance.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
Real-time integration with data replication
Data replication plays a key role in achieving enterprise-wide, real- time data integration while also addressing other important business goals and challenges. For example, data replication plays an essential role in a high-availability strategy, mirroring a database to support business continuity and avoid outages.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
Supercharge IBM PureData System for Analytics with data replication
IBM® PureData System for Analytics, powered by IBM Netezza® technology, helps organizations realize the potential of big data while simplifying deployment and ongoing management. PureData System enables deep, complex analytics on large-scale data volumes organizations can examine billions of records.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
White papers
Data virtualization: Delivering seamless, on-demand access to information throughout the enterprise
In order to get a deeper understanding of what is happening and how to influence it, access to all data, big or small, is becoming increasingly important. Data virtualization is an integration approach to provide easy access to these sources of information, including big data, on demand.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2013
Integrating and governing big data
In the new era of computing, the growing complexity of data sources and variety of data types creates a unique set of challenges. Left unchecked, these expanding volumes of data are becoming more uncertain and more difficult to navigate.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2013
Successful information governance through high-quality data
An organization may have hundreds or even thousands of different systems. Information can come from many places such as transactions, operational, document repositories and external information sources and in many formats, including data, content and streaming information.
Last updated: 01 Jan 2013
Successful healthcare analytics begin with the right data blueprint
This white paper discusses how enterprise analytics systems can assist provider organizations in building sustainable healthcare systems and achieving their vision for accountable care—from near-term demands for regulatory and quality reporting to transforming care delivery.
Last updated: 01 Dec 2012
IBM Ready-to-Launch for SAP applications
SAP data drives business transformation, but there are consistent, pervasive data challenges across projects that need to be addressed for it to be successful. IBM Ready-to-Launch for SAP is a solution based on people, process, and technology that helps enterprises reduce the risk of SAP implementations.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2012
Expand your data warehouse with access to real-time data
This paper discusses how organizations can capture and deliver near-real-time information to the data warehouse with minimum impact on transactional systems and maximum benefit to business outcomes.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Getting started with a data quality program
Getting started with a data quality program does not need to be a costly endeavor, nor is there a "one size fits all" approach. Establishing clear business priorities up front enables the organization to focus its investment and planning.
Last updated: 01 May 2012
Delivering high-value SOA information services.
Building Applications with a Services Oriented Architecture using information-integration services and master data services.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
Delivering information you can trust: The benefits of leveraging IBM capabilities to deliver quality data
This whitepaper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM InfoSphere Information Server for IBM System z can become your foundation for data quality and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
Driving information-led business innovation with IBM InfoSphere Information Server
IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a market-leading data integration platform that helps you understand, cleanse, transform and deliver trusted information to your critical business initiatives.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
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: 28 Feb 2012
The dynamic warehousing infrastructure: Establishing a foundation to meet new information requirements
This white paper outlines the options and decision criteria for selecting the right technology components for dynamic warehousing, including: managing mixed work loads; integrating source system data; gathering requirements and implementing changes, and synchronizing master data for key business entities.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2012
Creating a trusted data warehouse using IBM InfoSphere Information Server
This white paper describes a recipe for creating a new warehouse, driven by the needs of the business and developed through collaboration between business and technical teams.
Last updated: 01 Feb 2012
Build an effective data integration strategy to drive innovation
This thought leadership white paper highlights five key questions business leaders should ask to ensure the data integration approach they use delivers reliable, high-quality data to strategic target systems.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
Delivering information you can trust - The benefits of leveraging IBM capabilities to deliver quality data
InfoSphere Information Server is the foundation of many successful data quality initiatives, helping organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
Discover the performance and scalability potential of InfoSphere DataStage based on a benchmark test simulating a data warehouse scenario.
This white paper highlights the performance & scalability potential of InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 based on a benchmark test simulating a data warehouse scenario.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
Help alleviate batch windows with timely, reliable, data delivery
This paper examines the business issues that drive organizations to consider a real-time change data capture solution to optimize ETL processes.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere Blueprint Director: Gain control of your information project architecture
There are no simple information management projects. No matter what the goal, restructuring, moving or redistributing the data that drives the company’s systems to support its business objectives is a complex undertaking. To succeed, organizations must establish a clear vision of both the end goal and the path to get there.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
IBM InfoSphere Data Replication & Federation: An InDetail Paper by Bloor Research International Ltd.
This white paper by Bloor Research articulates IBM's vision of an integrated suite of products that combine replication, change data capture and federation into a single environment thus representing a step change from what is currently available in the market.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
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: 15 Jan 2012
What’s new in IBM InfoSphere Information Server 8.7
This white paper by Bloor Research articulates IBM’s vision of an integrated suite of products that combine replication, change data capture and federation into a single environment thus representing a step change from what is currently available in the market.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2012
Virtualization and Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning
This report describes how IT managers / administrators (particularly those involved in the management of virtual machines) can determine their current and projected capacity utilization using IBM's Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers.
Last updated: 26 Jul 2011
Industry Models for Enterprise Data Management (EDM) in Financial Markets
In this paper, we describe the industry models and draw comparisons to related EDM technologies and to the data standardization efforts of the EDM Council, a leading industry body for the financial market industry.
Last updated: 13 Apr 2010
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
Infrastructure for Dynamic Warehousing: IBM Industry 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: 10 Oct 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
