DB2 information integration speed up heterogeneous information management

With the complexity and diversity of the IT environment, modern enterprises face a huge challenge: they must derive more value from existing information assets. These information assets are stored in a variety of data, ranging from e-mail, spreadsheets, text files, flat files, XML content, and voice mail to information from business partners, vendors, and customers. How can these different data sources be associated with applications, regardless of where the information is? Businesses need an infrastructure.

Heterogeneous information Management

From this point of view, the database technology has been unable to the different platform information (that is, heterogeneous information) real-time management, it also relies on the content management, business intelligence, information integration and the corresponding tools and other technologies to do support. Recently, the IBM Software Department Information management Department of the latest real-time information integration software listing, thus forming the IBM based on this heterogeneous environment enterprises need the basic structure, namely: DB2 database, Content management software, business intelligence software, DB2 information Intergration and its development tools.

How does the information management platform help the enterprise to realize the information management in the real sense? Ms Yin Dan Ling, general manager of software management at IBM Greater China, said that for large enterprises, the realization of information management, real-time information integration is the key. Enterprise has previously involved more application integration, business integration, today, the integration of enterprise information itself in depth and breadth have been enhanced. Respect the existing investment of enterprises, let users quickly understand the data source, and the past, present and future data can be effectively integrated, reduce the IT managers in the connection to the various database coding, so that information can be integrated and management of real-time. The DB2 information Intergration helps customers instantly access, integrate, manage, and analyze information stored on any platform within and outside the enterprise. Its real-time access functionality integrates proprietary and emerging data sources (both structural and unstructured), making the data appear to be stored in the same place. "Yin Dan Ling said.

Information integration

At present, many enterprises emphasize to store business information in their database, but Yin Dan Ling that as part of IBM Information Management platform, DB2 information integrator help customers to integrate heterogeneous infrastructure and retain the original application development, Portal architecture and analysis and reporting environment. And this is precisely the problem that enterprises need to solve now. Tests show that DB2 information integrator can reduce the number of manual coding programs necessary to join various databases by 65%. And for the IBM DB2 database, Yin Dan Ling said today, it is no longer "mainframe-specific", currently 425,000 companies around the world have adopted the database. Gartner Dataquest's Global Database market survey for the second quarter of 2003 showed that, despite a 7% drop in overall global database sales in 2002, the company's DB2 database has seen sales rise on large Z-series servers, Its wealth in database software licensing has risen from 34% in 2001 to 36%.

Yin Dan Ling finally stressed: today, the information management market competition, no longer only in the database contest, but the manufacturers in the information Integrated Management test. IBM will help companies consolidate data, deliver real-time information, and achieve effective management of existing and future information through information management platforms for large enterprises, and DB2 Express strategies for SMEs.