 | WebSphere Information Services Director and WebSphere Information Services Director for Linux on System z provide these unique capabilities: - Rapid deployment - Services can be deployed for data integration logic in minutes, using intuitive wizards that do not presume advanced J2EE knowledge
- Service abstraction - Services defined using IBM Information Server and IBM Information Server for System z are true business objects, deployed natively in your application server, completely hiding the implementation complexity from the service consumer. This allows developers to use these services without knowing anything about WebSphere Information Services Director or other product modules.
- Binding flexibility - Services can be deployed with a choice of bindings, including Web services or Enterprise Java Beans, providing for all types of requirement and improving the opportunities for reuse
- High availability - IBM Information Server and IBM Information Server for System z provide a resilient environment that supports fault tolerance and high availability
- High Performance - IBM Information Server and IBM Information Server for System z combine the concepts of load balancing with true parallel execution, resulting in the fastest possible execution of data integration tasks
- Metadata-driven services - Uses the metadata of the underlying data integration logic to determine what the request and response data of the service will look like.
- Standards support - IBM Information Server and IBM Information Server for System z were built to provide an SOA for data integration that leverages and reinforces the open standards activities of organizations like WS-I, OASIS, W3C, and the Java Community Process
- Platform flexibility - IBM Information Server for System z provides the flexibility to perform these functions directly on the mainframe so that you can:
- leverage existing mainframe resources to maximize the value of your IT investments
- take advantage of the scalability, security, manageability and reliability of the mainframe
- add mainframe information integration work load without added z/OS operational costs
By leveraging the capabilities of IBM Information Server or IBM Information Server for System z, WebSphere Information Services Director and WebSphere Information Services Director for Linux on System z, your organization can: - Service-orient your data warehouse to support time-sensitive analytics by quickly turning ETL jobs into message-based data warehouse updates
- Improve accuracy and completeness of all data by creating shared services for data cleansing that can be called in-flight and on demand from any application, business process, or portal
- Ensure consistent enforcement of governance across all uses of data by creating shared data access objects for transactional, operational, and analytical data.
- Utilize the best data available in the enterprise for operational decision-making with real-time matching services that can be used to provide probabilistic record linkage against master data stores and systems of record
- Provide enterprise-wide visibility to key business information with standard validation services of any data, whether structured, unstructured, application, or mainframe.
- Obtain a complete view of customer information in real time with federation services that can be tied directly into any application or self-service portal.
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