New era of computing unfolds with an explosion in the volume,
variety, and velocity of data, integrating trustworthy information is
more important than ever to enable critical projects and key analytic
initiatives. IBM announced release of Information Server 11.3 and synchronizing release cycles and numbers across Governance Suites and bridges the gap between business requirements and IT.
Information Server V11.3 provides agile integration leading towards "anywhere integration" driving business & strategic
initiatives with confidence, ranging from big data and point-of-impact analytics to
master data management and data warehousing. V11.3 leads enterprises towards Business Driven Governance with Information Governance Catalog (IGC). IGC provides single window shop for all business & technical metadata by merging Buisness Glossary & metadata workbench. User can search for & find information sources that are
meaningful for delivering real business value &
relevance to information in "data lake". This capability enables users to
search for any type of data source – tables, files, cloud structures,
and more - or search based on business terms and policies and then drill
into the related data sources quickly and confidently.
In the field of Data Quality, Information Server v11.3 delivers,
- Expanded Governance Dashboard to report analysis of critical
business elements that lacks data steward owner. It also brings cognos entitlement support to rollout of data quality program
- Matching Stewardship brings
"Clerical pairs" as part of Data Quality Console. Records are displayed in
an intuitive format to facilitate investigation of the source data
elements and related match scores.
- Performance Optimization
is provided with faster algorithms for multi-column primary key detection, the
ability to perform tasks in parallel in column analysis,
bulk-load write to the analysis database, and optimized client/server
communication to reduce network traffic.
- Deeper integration for Master Data Management projects delivers an MDM
Integration Stage, enabling you to easily use InfoSphere Information
Server to load data into and extract data out of InfoSphere MDM. With
MDM Integration Stage you can include MDM data within your data
integration flows and load domain data (such as customer, partner,
supplier, member, and product, data) directly to the MDM system.
- Native Greenplum connectivity to access Greenplum databases and perform operations including importing metadata by using InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM).
Not only features and additional support v11.3 also provides
Enhanced Security-browser based UI Single Sign-on, SSL client communication, stronger encryption
Lightweight Services Tier-WebSphere Application Liberty Profile, faster to install, small footprint
Cloud Provisioned Instances- Deployment of SoftLayer Information Servers in minutes.
Engine Optimizations- Sort compress reduces I/O size for temp files
Cloud Additions - Connectivity for Amazon S3
I am going to provide more insight in upcoming blogs, can refer following
announcement as well for summary.