IBM Information Server, Version 8.1IBM® Information Server software platform extends its scalability, information consistency, and performance to IBM System z™ customers, providing new flexibility to perform information integration directly on the mainframe.
IBM Information Server for System z provides a unified foundation for enterprise information architectures, delivering trusted information for key business initiatives such as business intelligence, real-time reporting, data migration, data warehousing, data governance, customer relationship management, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects. The Linux® software for System z also provides rich security features, stability, flexibility, interoperability, and reduced software costs.
IBM Information Server for System z is a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, transforms, and delivers information from both mainframe and distributed data sources to drive greater insight for the business without added IBM z/OS® operational costs. It can help you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. It enables your organization to integrate disparate data and deliver trusted information wherever and whenever it is needed to specific people, applications, and processes. It helps business and IT personnel collaborate to understand the meaning, structure, and content of any information across any source. With breakthrough productivity and performance for cleansing, transforming, and moving this information consistently and securely throughout your enterprise, IBM Information Server for System z lets you access and use information in new ways to drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and lower risk. IBM Information Server for System z uniquely balances the reliability, scalability, and security of the System z platform with the low-cost processing environment of the Integrated Facility for Linux specialty engine.
It enables mainframe users to understand disparate data sources, cleanse data to ensure consistent quality, and transform and restructure information. It also provides metadata-driven integration that visually depicts the relationships among data sources and data users, and provides proof of data lineage required by many compliance regulations directly on the mainframe. The industry’s broadest federation support enables IBM Information Server for System z to access multiple diverse data and content sources in real time as if they were a single source.
In a System z environment, all of the fundamental information components of the solution are hosted on the System z server, including the operational data store, the data warehouse, and any data marts utilized in the system. This model is well suited to address strategic business needs, centered around the demand for real-time or near real-time access to information to support key decision-making or business process requirements.
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