Each application in InfoSphere Information Server Architecture has a primary function, which can by synopsized as follows:
Application
Function Synopsis
Blueprint Director
IBM InfoSphere Blueprint Director is aimed at the Information Architect designing solution architectures for information-intensive projects.
Cognos
IBM Business Analytics software suit, which provides Semantics, Analytics, Reporting, Data Discovery, and Self-Service BI.
Console
Admin workspaces to investigate data, deploy applications, Web services, and monitor schedules and logs.
Data Architect
Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool. You can use it to discover, model, visualize, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data assets, including dimensional models.
Data Click
Data Click is an exciting new capability that helps novices and business users retrieve data and provision systems easily in only a few clicks.
Datastage
DataStage is a data integration tool that enables users to move and transform data between operational, transactional, and analytical target systems.
Discovery
Discovery is used to identify the transformation rules that have been applied to source system data to populate a target. Once accurately defined, these business objects and transformation rules provide the essential input into information-centric projects.
Fasttrack
FastTrack streamlines collaboration between business analysts, data modelers, and developers by capturing and defining business requirements in a common format and, then, transforming that business logic (Source-to-Target-Mapping (STTM)) directly into DataStage ETL jobs.
Governance Catalog
The Governance Catalog includes business glossary assets (categories, terms, information governance policies, and information governance rules) and information assets.
Information Analyzer
Information Analyzer provides capabilities to profile and analyze data.
Information Services Director
Information Services Director provides a unified and consistent way to publish and manage shared information services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Metadata Asset Manager
Import, export, and manage common metadata assets in Metadata Repository and across applications
Qualitystage
QualityStage provides data cleansing capabilities to help ensure quality and consistency by standardizing, validating, matching, and merging information to create comprehensive and authoritative information.
Server Manager
Deployment tool to move, deploy, and control DataStage and QualityStage assets.
