IBM Announces New Software to Dramatically Simplify Information Integration

IBM Announces New Software to Dramatically Simplify Information Integration

IBM today announced a beta program for new software that allows all types of information to be more effectively used to power business intelligence systems, consolidate enterprise applications, create and manage master repositories of critical business information, and search and access information on demand no matter where it is stored within the enterprise. The products announced today will simplify the complex task of integrating various types of information in the enterprise, enhance the quality and accuracy of that information, and improve the productivity of the individuals managing it.

Businesses have large volumes of data but often don’t know where specific data is, can’t get it quickly enough, don’t understand it, don’t have it in the right format, or its quality can’t be monitored or controlled. With this announcement, IBM offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of information integration products to give customers the flexibility to tap into both structured information (such as databases from any vendor or ERP systems) and unstructured information (such as email or images) and use this information for maximum benefit.

IBM is combining technology from the acquisition of Ascential Software earlier this year with IBM’s existing information integration portfolio. This consists of technology from both the Ascential project code-named Hawk and IBM’s project Serrano. Project Hawk delivers the foundation for a new simplified powerful user interface that will ultimately be leveraged across the entire portfolio to make the software easier to use. This project also introduces a new metadata infrastructure to provide tight coordination across data used by all of these products for consistent information about the content, quality, condition and other characteristics of data.

Project Serrano streamlines the design and development of information infrastructures and enables users to leverage information across the enterprise through unprecedented enterprise search capabilities, information integration and text analytics. Together, these enhancements will make it easier to leverage all types of information on demand no matter where or how it is being used. Key to project Serrano is a new product, IBM Rational Data Architect, which provides tools for saving countless design and development hours. This new software is built on the open source Eclipse platform and helps data architects model, discover, map, and analyze data across multiple information sources, automating information integration in complex environments.

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