InfoSphere Information Services Director

InfoSphere® Information Services Director provides an integrated environment that enables users to rapidly deploy InfoSphere Information Server logic as services.

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure of InfoSphere Information Services Director ensures that data integration logic that is developed in InfoSphere Information Server can be used by any business process. The best data is available at all times, to all people, and to all processes.

InfoSphere Information Services Director defines services as true business objects, which are deployed locally in your application server. This integration completely hides the complexity of implementation from the service that consumes published data integration logic.

Invoking service-ready data integration tasks ensures that business processes such as quote generation, order entries, and procurement requests receive data that is correctly transformed, standardized, and matched across applications, partners, suppliers, and customers.

After an integration service is enabled, any enterprise application, .Net or Java™ developer, Microsoft Office application, or integration software can invoke the service by using a binding protocol such as web services, Representational State Transfer (REST), and Really Simple Syndication (RSS).