System architecture
IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition has a scalable architecture that provides security, data archival capability, and operational redundancy (or high availability). Data archiving is the process of removing old data or information from the system and moving it to another system where it can be retrieved later.
For best performance, run InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition on a dedicated system. Also, restrict access to the system to maintain security.
InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server - Collaborative Edition provides a PIM solution development platform with scheduler, business process management, event processing, queue management, and other common components. It supports SQL-like business data query, object-oriented scripting, Java™ API programming, web service development, and other PIM solution development features.
- A web-based user interface for rendering PIM content in a browser, including static, dynamic, or cached data in the client side. This tier runs on a web browser.
- A middle tier with the functional modules that process user requests and produce PIM content in the server side. This tier runs on an application server.
- A database management system (DBMS) that stores the data that is required by the middle tier. This tier runs on a database server.