Where InfoSphere QualityStage fits in the suite architecture

InfoSphere® QualityStage® is a data reengineering environment that is designed to help cleanse and enrich data to meet business objectives and data quality management standards.

Data integration specialists use InfoSphere QualityStage to complete the preparation stage of enterprise data integration, often known as data cleansing. InfoSphere QualityStage and InfoSphere DataStage® share an infrastructure for importing and exporting data, designing, deploying, and running jobs, and reporting.

InfoSphere QualityStage uses the source systems analysis from InfoSphere Information Analyzer, and supports the transformation functions of InfoSphere DataStage. InfoSphere QualityStage also incorporates data rules from InfoSphere Information Analyzer directly for in-stream or real-time data validation. Data analysts can then use InfoSphere Information Analyzer to assess the ongoing results and trends from InfoSphere QualityStage processing.

Data integration specialists can use InfoSphere QualityStage and InfoSphere DataStage to access the shared metadata repository to obtain access to current metadata and enterprise data for the integration project. Data that is imported by InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager is accessible from the InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage Designer. Data integration specialists use the same design canvas to specify the flow of data from preparation to transformation and delivery.

Working together, these products automate data quality assurance, which was previously a manual or neglected activity within many data integration projects. The combined benefits help your organization avoid low return on investment (ROI) caused by working with poor quality data.