InfoSphere Data Architect

By using InfoSphere® Data Architect, your organization can design data assets, understand data assets and their relationships, and streamline your data integration project.

InfoSphere Data Architect provides tools to discover, model, visualize, and relate heterogeneous data assets. Users can design and develop logical, physical, and dimensional models. Traditional data modeling capabilities are combined with unique mapping capabilities and model analysis, all organized in a modular, project-based application.

InfoSphere Data Architect discovers the structure of heterogeneous data sources by examining and analyzing the underlying metadata. You can browse the hierarchy of data elements to understand their detailed properties and visualize tables, views, and relationships in a contextual diagram.

Impact analysis lists all dependencies on data elements so that users can manage changes without interruption. Advanced synchronization technology compares two models, a model to a database, or two databases. Changes from the comparison can be promoted within and across data models and data sources, ensuring that data remains current.

Integration with other InfoSphere components enables integration across the enterprise. For example, dimensional models designed with InfoSphere Data Architect reduce development time for InfoSphere Data Warehouse and Cognos® business intelligence reporting. By using the shared metadata repository, InfoSphere Data Architect can share terms and definitions with InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, making corporate standards easier to implement.