Information Integration Platform (IIP)

It’s vital that organisations can locate information, understand what it means and get it to where it’s needed in the most appropriate form. And avoid the pitfalls of making decisions based on data that is not authoritative, consistent, timely or complete. IBM Information Server enables you to achieve information integration to help you understand and analyse the meaning, relationships and lineage of information. Enabling discovery, definition and modelling of information content and structure.

By automating data profiling and data quality auditing within systems, you can:

• Improve productivity.
• Create an understanding of data sources and relationships.
• Eliminate the risk of utilising or proliferating inaccurate or inconsistent data.
• Leverage existing IT investments while increasing capabilities.

Derive more value from complex, heterogenous information spread across systems

How do you gather information you can trust? (373KB)

Scope

Most key business initiatives cannot succeed without effective information integration. IBM solutions go beyond software to provide the services and industry-aligned expertise you need to meet your business goals.

With professional services and support, your enterprise can rely on customised implementations to meet specific objectives whilst simultaneously leveraging proven industry data, process and integration models to accelerate critical business initiatives. The complete information integration solution includes:

• Assistance with the application of a proven data integration methodology so you won’t miss out critical early steps that could prove expensive to remedy later on.
• Help with training, passing on best practices and mentoring to get your team quickly up to speed while they gain the experience that is vital to long-term system maintenance.
• Utilisation of some of the broadest and most comprehensive data, process and integration models for banking, insurance, telecommunications and retail.

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IBM Information Server, Version 8.0. Cleansing data and managing data quality.

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Do you need to improve communication across business and IT members or create better linkages between business and technical information? Maybe you need to accelerate the creation of DataStage ETL to support business demand or want to stop using Excel to document business transformation rules? Or perhaps you want to create better documentation for auditing purposes? If any of these apply to your business or if you just want to find out more about our information integration platforms please call us on 01475 898688 or email us.

Case study: Somerfield gains 25% savings through re-use of data interfaces built with IBM WebSphere Information Integration.

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