Présentation effectuée par James LEBAS

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What’s new in Information Server v11.3
17 Septembre 2014
James LEBAS : Avant-vente Information Server

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Agile Integration
Wherever your information resides, integrate it quickly and flexibly Business Driven Governance Make decisions with confidence using trusted data at the point of impact Sustainable Quality Ensure information accuracy and quickly adapt to strategic business changes
Information Server v11.3 InfoSphere Information Server Information Governance Catalog Data Integration Data Quality

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Why version number “11.3” ?
Release 11.3 extends across all products in the IBM Information Integration & Governance platform
Shared version indicates IBM’s commitment toward a cohesive user experience for solving broad business challenges
Version 11.3 introduces even deeper product integration within this portfolio in order to accelerate time to value

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New Platform Features
•InfoSphere BigInsights included - IBM is first to deliver a market-leading DI platform with the analytics power of a fully supported Hadoop distribution.
•Enhanced Security - browser UI single sign-on, SSL client communication, stronger encryption
•New light-weight services tier: Information Server can now use WAS Liberty Profile for the services tier - a fast to start app server runtime - decreases time during install and feature pack cycles and lowers overall system resource usage costs
•Faster Install/Smaller Footprint: +30% faster to install when using WAS-ND & +50% faster to install when using Liberty Profile compared to v9.1.2 installation

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Information Governance Catalog
The one-stop shop for business and technical metadata
•Enterprise-class collaboration platform for creating, monitoring, and reviewing business-critical metadata
•Anywhere access that aligns business and IT so that any project can be supported by governed, trusted data
Note: IGC is the new name for “Business Information Exchange”

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Information Governance Catalog
•Convergence of two market-leading metadata capabilities:
-business glossary - business focused metadata for terms, policies, rules
-metadata workbench - IT focused metadata for technical assets, lineage, impact analysis
•Combined interfaces further accelerate business and IT collaboration.
•Streamlines workflows where users needed access to both styles of metadata.

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Shop for Data …allowing any user to find relevant data
•Use semantic search to instantly find relevant data sources and assets
•Augmented by integration of both business and technical metadata Information Governance Catalog

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Smart Hover …easily access summary info for any object and then act directly
•Hovering over any asset provides context information without needing to change screens
•Use action buttons to drill into details, collect assets, email users, integrate data and more… Information Governance Catalog

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Collect & Share …organize data assets into collections, add context, and share
•Promote cross-team collaboration through shopping cart like experience of collecting assets of interest
•Team members can add insightful notes as they curate info in the data lake Information Governance Catalog

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Lineage@Scale …supports graphical lineage at enterprise-class scale
•Fast display of complex flows based on new lineage flow architecture and graphing improvements
•Advanced filters support defining scope of displayed properties
•Mobile device support, including iphone/ipad Information Governance Catalog

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Shop for Data – Act on Data …integrated flow when IGC used with Data Click Information Governance Catalog
•After users find information that suites their business needs, they can quickly jump into Data Click to integrate that data into a target data store… relational, hadoop or cloud

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Data Integration
Transform and deliver any data at any level of complexity or scale
•Self-service data integration so that any user can connect to and move data on-demand
•Market-leading massively scalable data integration engine to refine data so that it is fit for business purpose

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Transform & Deliver …refining data at any scale to make it fit for business purpose
•Allows any user to get or share data in or out of the data lake through a simple browser based UI leveraging the scalable DI engine & rich metadata
Self-service
•Helps enterprises who are shifting operations and analytics into the cloud, to provide data to these environments and to collocate the DI platform with them
Cloud Reach
•Speed-up time to integrate data into your MDM solution through MDM model exploration and simple drag-and- drop integration from and to any other data source
Master Data
•For large data sets, reduces I/O size for temp files thus improving run time - benefits both explicit sorts and those that are inserted in specific operators
Sort Compress Data Integration

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•allows any authorized user to get/share data
•automatically registers metadata
•Enhancements include
-new home screen
-monitoring
-web-based authoring
-IGC integration
-expanded connectivity (Amazon S3, hadoop, odbc, jdbc, native oracle & db2)
Data Click
…self-service data integration for the data lake Data Integration

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•Easily move data into or out of your cloud hosted Amazon S3 environment
•hierarchical stage adds REST APIs to interact with on & off-premise sources, including DBaaS offerings such as IBM Cloudant Data Integration
Cloud Reach … extending the enterprise’s reach off-premise

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Master Data Management … Speed-up time to integrate data into your MDM solution Data Integration
•Explore and import MDM metadata for a governed master data integration
•simple drag-and-drop integration from and to any other data source
•Optimized load by combining MDM bulk API and IS scalability

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•Where data sizes are larger than allowed memory, work space I/O is reduced
•Provides a tremendous performance lift – up to 31% in lab testing
•Benefit for explicit and implicit sorts
Sort Compress …reduces I/O for temp files thus improving run time Data Integration

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•Native Greenplum Connectivity: use the new Greenplum connector stages to read from and bulk load data to Greenplum databases, and import metadata via IMAM
•Engine Performance Improvements
•Standard performance tests showed marked improvement over v9.1.2 (test run on Linux)
•CPU intensive workload … 10% performance gain
•IO intensive workload … 20% performance gain
•Big Data Currency: Updated to support InfoSphere BigInsights 3.0, Cloudera 4.5, Hortonworks 2.1
Other data integration additions in v11.3 Data Integration

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Data Quality
Ensure information accuracy and quickly adapt to strategic business changes
•Improve the quality of information through standardizing, matching, enriching and validating.
•Track quality of data to ensure it meets business requirements and take action when it falls out of guidelines.

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Cleanse & Monitor refining data at any scale to make it fit for business purpose
•Allows governance community to understand how data quality objectives are aligning to policies established for the business.
Governance Dashboard
•Data profiling and analysis is now faster than ever before – user interface performance has also been improved to benefit larger projects
Performance Optimizations
•Information Analyzer now uses the same shared metadata as the rest of the suite to reduce imports
•data rule design experience is simplified
Productivity Improvements
•measure whether the data integration and quality components are meeting IT and business expectations and related SLAs
Operational Quality Data Quality

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•IGD is now part of the integrated installer
•Over NN reports including new analysis of critical business elements that lack a data steward owner
•Cognos now entitled to support rollout of data quality program
Governance Dashboard
…visualize how data quality objectives are aligning to policies Data Quality

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•Analysis engine performance improvements:
-A new, more scalable algorithm is used for multi-column primary key detection.
-Data rules now use the native DB2 connector for writing to the analysis database via bulk load
-Column analysis is faster due to a higher degree of parallelism
•User interface responsiveness improved considerably
-XMETA calls moved from client tier to services tier to streamline communication
Performance Optimizations …profiling and analysis is now faster than ever before Data Quality

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•Metadata import for Information Analyzer now uses the same common IMAM capabilities for broader metadata support.
•Data Rule development on the job canvas now includes drag and drop capabilities to simplify development of new rules.
Productivity Improvements …delivering business value sooner Data Quality

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•Pre-built rules to measure 4 domains of operational quality
•Pinpoints opportunities to optimize the environment
•Provides unified environment to assess and monitor data for data stewards, analysts, etc.
Operational Quality …measure how platform is meeting expectations Data Quality

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Information Server v11.3 Planned release June’14
Agile Integration
Business-driven Governance
Sustainable Data Quality
Information Governance Catalog is the one-stop shop for business and technical metadata
•seamless user experience for the creation, monitoring, and review of business-critical metadata
•collaboration between business and IT for any project that requires governed, trusted data
•New features include
oCollections
oEnhanced lineage infrastructure
oOperational metadata optimization
oWatson Explorer integration
Cloud Environment Support
•New connectors for Amazon S3 & Softlayer Swift Data Click Expansion
•New home experience for any LOB or IT user
•Web based authoring
•Expanded and optimized connectivity, including hadoop & cloud MDM Integration
•New MDM Connector to simplify DI with MDM DataStage Engine Features
•REST API support for interoperating with internal/web services
•Sort performance optimizations
Governance Dashboard
•now part of the integrated installer and including stewardship reports
•Cognos now entitled to support rollout of data quality program Productivity Enhancements
•Data connections and metadata from IMAM available for profiling and data rules
•Additional Data Governance Dashboard reports Performance Optimizations
•Parallelism for column analysis to significantly reduce processing time
•Faster algorithms for multi-column primary key analysis
•Expanded native connector support for faster read/write

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Information Server Roadmap … planned ongoing quarterly new feature releases
v11.3 - June ’14 Integration
•Cloud Environment Support
•Data Click Expansion
•MDM Integration
•DataStage Engine Features Governance
•Information Governance Catalog Quality
•Governance Dashboard
•Productivity Enhancements
•Performance Optimizations
v11.3.1 – Q3’14 Platform
•Add zLinux/Solaris
•Add Oracle/SQL Server Integration
•New Data Click filtering and scheduling features
v11.3.2 – Q4’14
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