IBM Information Server, Version 8.1You use data profiling and analysis to understand your data and ensure that it suits the integration task. WebSphere® Information Analyzer is a critical component of IBM® Information Server that profiles and analyzes data so that you can deliver trusted information to your users.
WebSphere Information Analyzer can automatically scan samples of your data to determine their quality and structure. This analysis aids you in understanding the inputs to your integration process, ranging from individual fields to high-level data entities. Information analysis also enables you to correct problems with structure or validity before they affect your project.
In many situations, analysis must address data, values, and rules that are best understood by business users. Particularly for comprehensive enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or supply chain management packages, validating data against this business knowledge is a critical step. The business knowledge, in turn, forms the basis for ongoing monitoring and auditing of data to ensure validity, accuracy, and compliance with internal standards and industry regulations.
While analysis of source data is a critical first step in any integration project, you must continually monitor the quality of the data. WebSphere Information Analyzer enables you to treat profiling and analysis as an ongoing process and create business metrics that you can run and track over time.
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