IBM WebSphere Information Integration

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WebSphere Information Integration is a suite of business software for data management tasks such as profiling, cleansing, transformation and metadata management. The suite was formerly known as the Ascential Information Integration suite and renamed to the WebSphere Information Integration suite after Ascential Software was acquired by IBM in 2005.

In November of 2006 IBM announced that the new version of this suite would make up the Information Server. This is an attempt to define a new type of strategic corporate asset, a data integration platform for ETL, cleansing, profiling, federation and replication. The initial release features integration of the Information Integration products on a common metadata server. Subsequent releases will see support for the IBM Master Data Management platform and Rational tools.

[edit] Information Integration Suite

Version 7 of the suite is comprised of the following product:

DataStage is an Extract, Transform and Load tool.
QualityStage is a data quality cleansing tool.
ProfileStage is a data profiling tool.
MetaStage is a metadata hub tool.
DataStage TX is a tool for transforming complex transactions.
The DB2 Information Integrator was renamed WebSphere Data Integrator for this release.

[edit] Information Server

With the version 8 release IBM introduce the Information Server with a new look information integration suite of tools:

DataStage for Extract, Transform and Load.
QualityStage for data quality is moved onto the DataStage Designer.
Metadata Server is a shared repository and metadata services layer for all Information Server products.
Data Analyzer is a new profiling and monitoring product that replaces ProfileStage.
Business Glossary replaces the glossary functions of the defunct MetaStage product.
DataStage TX is a tool for transforming complex transactions.
Federation Server is the product formerly known as WebSphere Data Integrator.
Replication Server is a tool for data replication.