Bert Swope
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Each IIS component has a primary function in the InfoSphere architecture, which can be synopsized as follows:
| Application | Function |
| Blueprint Director | IBM InfoSphere Blueprint Director is aimed at the Information Architect designing solution architectures for information-intensive projects. |
| Cognos (If purchased) | Governance Dashboard (Framework Manager Model provided by IBM), Semantics, Analytics, and Reporting |
| 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. |
| Glossary Anywhere | Business Glossary Anywhere, its companion module, augments Governance Catalog with more ease-of-use and extensibility features. |
| 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 |
| Operations Console | Admin workspaces to investigate data, deploy applications, Web services, and monitor schedules and logs. |
| 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. |
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