IBM Information Server provides a unified mechanism for publishing and managing shared services across data quality, data transformation, and federation functions, allowing information specialists to easily deploy services for any information integration task and consistently manage them. This enables developers to take data integration logic built using IBM Information Server and publish it as an "always on" service - in minutes. The common services also include the metadata services, which provide standard service-oriented access and analysis of metadata across the platform.
WebSphere Information Services Director provides a single place to automate the creation and management of information operations (jobs, queries, stored procedures) as services across diverse information sources. It provides a common foundation for the management of information services throughout the enterprise, increasing consistency and reusability of information while maximizing investment in new and existing information sources.
A new design console offers users an IDE-like environment to compose their services and a run-time console where administrators and operators can manage their information services. Services can be deployed for data integration logic in minutes, using intuitive wizards that do not presume advanced J2EE knowledge.
