Built on a unified platform and working in concert with data integration
methodology, IBM® Information
Server for System
z™ helps organizations derive more value from complex, heterogeneous information
spread across their systems.
IBM Information
Server for System
z delivers:
- Productivity: Simplifies how organizations deal with heterogeneous
information, creating information that is quickly and easily understood and
integrated and delivered to meet any business requirement
- Trust: Increases confidence in information by ensuring consistency
and quality in information across the enterprise; facilitates alignment of
business and IT goals by maintaining meaning, context, and lineage of information
- Scalability and performance: Enables enterprises to deal with very
large data volume, providing a complete view of information in a timely and
efficient manner
- Value: Leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) to unlock
information to create more accessible and consistent information throughout
the enterprise
Multiple operating systems
IBM Information Server supports multiple
operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX (PA-RISC and Intel® Itanium®), Linux®,
Solaris, and SUSE Linux for System z as well as IBM z/OS® for mainframes.
Rich connectivity
Along with its flexible, multi-platform
solution, IBM Information
Server for System z offers rich connectivity with:
- Application and distributed data
- DB2® for z/OS
- WebSphere® Classic
Federation for more z/OS data
- WebSphere Data
Event Publishers for change data capture
Advantages of System z
IBM Information Server for System z has
many important advantages:
- A comprehensive, unified foundation for enterprise information architectures,
scalable to any volume and processing requirement that leverages the scalability,
security, manageability and reliability of the mainframe without added z/OS operational
costs
- Fully integrated, auditable data quality as a foundation for trusted information
across the enterprise
- Metadata-driven integration, providing breakthrough productivity and flexibility
for integrating and enriching information
- Broadest and deepest connectivity to information across diverse sources:
structured, unstructured, mainframe, and applications to maximize the value
of your IT investments
- Simplified scalability at lower cost to manage current and future data
requirements
- Data governance capabilities to ensure consistent and accurate compliance
with information-centric regulations and requirements
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