1. IBM Information Server
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IBM Information Server
Metadata Management

2. IBM Information Server Delivering information you can trust
Unified Deployment
Understand
Cleanse
Transform
Deliver
Discover, model, and govern information structure and content
Standardize, merge,
and correct information
Combine and restructure information for new uses
Synchronize, virtualize and move information for in-line delivery
Key Point: The culmination of these efforts has led us to our latest platform offering – the IBM Information Server.
IBM Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform from IBM that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. It enables organizations to integrate disparate data and deliver trusted information wherever and whenever needed, in line and in context, to specific people, applications, and processes. IBM Information Server helps business and IT personnel to collaborate to understand the meaning, structure, and content of any type of information across any sources. It provides breakthrough productivity and performance for cleansing, transforming, and moving this information consistently and securely throughout the enterprise, so it can be accessed and used in new ways to drive innovation, increase operational efficiency, and lower risk.
IBM Information Server is designed to help companies leverage their information across all its sources.
IBM Information Server delivers all of the functions required to integrate, enrich and deliver information you can trust for your key business initiatives. IBM Information Server allows you to:
Understand all sources of information within the business, analyzing its usage, quality, and relationships
Cleanse it to assure its quality and consistency
Transform it to provide enriched and tailored information, and;
Federate it to make it accessible to people, processes, and applications
All of these functions are based on a parallel processing infrastructure that provides leverage and automation across the platform. The Information Server also provides connectivity to nearly any data or content source, and the ability to deliver information through a variety of mechanisms.
Underlying these functions is a unified metadata management foundation that provides seamless sharing of knowledge throughout a project lifecycle, along with a detailed understanding of what information means, where it came from, and how it is related to information in other systems.
Integration logic built within IBM Information Server can easily be deployed and managed as a shared service within a SOA.
IBM Information Server provides:
access to the broadest range of information sources
the broadest range of integration functionality, including federation, ETL, in-line transformation, replication, and event publishing
the most flexibility in how these functions are used, including support for service-oriented architectures, event-driven processing, scheduled batch processing, and even standard APIs like SQL and Java.
The breadth and flexibility of the platform enable it to address many types of business problems and meet the requirements of many types of projects. This optimizes the opportunities for reuse, leading to faster project cycles, better information consistency, and stronger information governance.
Regarding Service-Oriented Architectures, information integration enables information to be made available as a service, publishing consistent, reusable services for information that make it easier for processes to get the information they need from across a heterogeneous landscape.
Unified Metadata Management
Parallel Processing
Rich Connectivity to Applications, Data, and Content

3. What Is Metadata, anyway?

4. Metadata Primer Business Metadata Technical Metadata
Business rules, Definitions, Terminology, Glossaries, Algorithms and Lineage using business language. Audience: Business users.
Technical Metadata
Defines Source and Target systems, their Table and Fields structures and attributes, Derivations and Dependencies. Audience: Specific Tool Users – BI, ETL, Profiling, Modeling.
Operational Metadata
Information about application runs: their frequency, record counts, component by component analysis and other statistics. Audience: Operations, Management and Business Users.
Administrative Metadata
Documents and audits development efforts, assigns Stewards, and handles change management and governance. Audience: Operations, Stewards, Tool Users and Management.
More on the definition of meta data…..“data about data” that describes your company’s information from both a business and a technical perspective.

5. What do our users need from their metadata?
How do I know that that I have an accurate view?
Developers
How do I keep track of all my transformations? How do I know if they are using the right rules?
Subject Matter Experts
Business Users
How can I actively collaborate with developers?
Simplify administration, deployment, & maintenance
What about Governance, Security, Scalability?
Architects
DBAs
Data Analysts
Why aren’t my tools more integrated?

6. Subject Matter Experts Unified Metadata Management
What does Information Server help them achieve?
Business Users
Subject Matter Experts
Architects
Data Analysts
Developers
DBAs
Unified Metadata Management
Simplify Integration
Increase trust and confidence in information
Facilitate change management & reuse
Increase compliance to standards
Design
Operational

7. What don’t we do with metadata?
Information Server is not providing a general-purpose enterprise metadata repository
There is no intent to maintain third-party metadata
The metadata goal for Information Server is to provide linkages to what is known within the domain of “data integration.”

8. IBM Information Server
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Business Glossary
Metadata Workbench
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9. IBM WebSphere Business Glossary
Web-based tool for authoring, managing, and sharing an enterprise vocabulary & classification system
A lot of words here….
Interesting Gartner quote that was part of the original slide:
“Having a common business language can minimize the time and effort (of business process integration), and make these critical business processes much more efficient” Gartner

10. What is Business Metadata
Documents the business meaning of data and related technology assets
Emphasis is on “the language of the business,” independent of technology
Goals
Define a shared meaning of data
Establish responsibility, accountability, and traceability
Help govern access and “state”
Share insights & experiences among users
Managed by those that understand the meaning and importance of the information assets to the business
Better aligns the efforts of IT with the goals of the business

11. Key features of Business Glossary
Support for the definition of a business taxonomy
Data governance “enabler” with strong emphasis on stewardship
Ability to import externally created hierarchies
Web enabled search and browse interface
Provides business level tie to all data integration meta data

12. Achieve a common vocabulary between business & technical users!
Term: Tax Expense
Full Name: Tax to be paid on Gross Income
“The expense due to taxes …..”
(John Walsh is responsible for updates. 90% reliable source)
Status: CURRENT
Database = DB2
Schema = NAACCT
Table = DLYTRANS
Column = TAXVL
data type = Decimal (14,2)
Derivation: SUM(TRNTXAMT)
Achieve a common vocabulary between business & technical users!
…an example.
Shared
Metadata Server
& Repository
DataStage
Business Glossary

13. Business Glossary helps enterprises establish and manage a business “taxonomy”
What is a “taxonomy?”
Represents “controlled vocabularies” whose terms exist in hierarchical relationships
Helps guide the browsing of “vocabularies”
Models the relationship between broad and more narrow terms
Example:
- Consumer Products Retailing
- Finance
- General Ledger
- Account Number
- Account Type

14. Benefits of WebSphere Business Glossary
Consolidated and single view of enterprise wide business information
Facilitates the organization of business terms into a logical and hierarchical structure
Supports assignment of ownership to business metadata to augment and strengthen corporate governance policies
Relates business terms to technical facts
Encourages interaction among professionals throughout the organization (who know the business information best)
Provide a feedback facility for data owners

15. What is the IBM Metadata Workbench?
Web-based interface for exploration and management of assets produced and consumed by Information Server
Includes out of the box reporting on:
Data movement
Data lineage
Business meaning
Impact of changes
Dependencies

16. IBM WebSphere Metadata Server
How does it work?
Metadata Workbench allows users to explore, analyze, and enrich the metadata in the Metadata Server
Information Server
Components
IBM WebSphere
Metadata Workbench
WebSphere
Business Glossary
Metadata
Workbench
WebSphere
DataStage &
QualityStage
Metadata Services
Import/Export
Manager
IBM WebSphere Metadata Server
Information
Analyzer
WebSphere
Federation Server
Enterprise Information
Assets,
e.g. Business Reports
Information Server components generate design time and runtime metadata, automatically storing it in the Metadata Server

17. Metadata Workbench Feature Overview
Explore & analyze Information Server assets
Browse individual objects or utilize cross-suite views
Simple and advanced search
Review asset relationships graphically
Build queries
Trace data movement to/from databases, Jobs and reports
Understand business meaning
Measure the impact of change

18. Metadata Workbench Feature Overview
Manage Information Server assets
Edit names and descriptions
Reconcile duplicates
Access runtime information to enrich reporting

19. IBM Information Server
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Metadata Management
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20. Analyze data lineage for a report column
VP Sales North America is looking at the annual customer activity report – what is the ultimate source for the column Customer Name?

22. Impact Analysis based on a column
A DataStage ETL developer wants to make a change to the column CUST_NAME and needs to understand which jobs or reports will be impacted by this change.

24. Analyze system dependencies
The data warehouse server needs to be upgraded. Who should I notify and coordinate downtime with?

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