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IBM InfoSphere Information Server

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What is IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.

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Fantastic with data transformation.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 18, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It's very mesmerizing with workflow management. Terrific with ease of configuration, tuning, and data encryption. Great with workflow management. Ease of use.
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jamie anderson
Manager - Other
Warehouse Manager
BLG Logistics, Inc.
IBM InfoSphere Information Server1 year of experience

Excellent ETL Option for Corporate Data Integration

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 30, 2018
Vetted ReviewVerified User
InfoSphere Information Server is used primarily as a corporate data integration platform. It allows to integrate data from several different commercial and industrial systems....
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Karina Gonzalez
Manager - Information Technology
Manager Data Management
Tenaris
IBM InfoSphere Information Server10 years of experience

IBM InfoSphere DataStage Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 12, 2018
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We have used DataStage for many years to be able to create the integrations for the loading of the DW or migrations in different companies of different industries
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Verified user
Project Manager
IBM InfoSphere Information Server16 years of experience

IBM InfoSphere, product family for your IT family!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 2, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use infosphere for 1-Load Data Warehouse: I design ETL jobs for load data to our ODS, DWH and DM tables 2-Design DWH with Data Architect: I use data architect for creating...
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Gunes INAL
Team Lead - Information Technology
Data Warehouse Consultant
Intellium
IBM InfoSphere Information Server3 years of experience

Information Server - A world class Integration Platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 26, 2018
IncentivizedVetted Review
InfoSphere Information Server is used primarily as a corporate data integration platform. It allows not only integrate data from different systems but also analyzes the qualit...
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Gonzalo Angeleri
Manager - Information Technology
Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager
GRUPO DATCO
IBM InfoSphere Information Server15 years of experience

Great product but expensive

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 18, 2014
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
IBM InfoSphere is being used across the whole organization. The problem it addresses: DW/BI.
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Verified user
Team Lead
IBM InfoSphere Information Server13 years of experience
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What is IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.

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Product Details

What is IBM InfoSphere Information Server?

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.

IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server Enterprise Edition's capabilities include automated data discovery, policy-driven governance, self-service data preparation, data quality assessment and cleansing for data in flight and at rest, and advanced dynamic or batch data transformation and movement. It helps deliver business-ready data to key business initiatives such as big data, data lakes, data warehouse modernization and master data management — either on premises, private cloud, public cloud or hyperconverged systems like IBM Cloud Pak® for Data.



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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is a data integration platform used to understand, cleanse, monitor and transform data. The offerings provide massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities.

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The most common users of IBM InfoSphere Information Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Fantastic with data transformation.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 18, 2021
ja
jamie anderson
Warehouse Manager
BLG Logistics, Inc. (Logistics & Supply Chain, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's very mesmerizing with workflow management. Terrific with ease of configuration, tuning, and data encryption. Great with workflow management. Ease of use.
Pros and Cons
  • It's very impressive with data encryption.
  • Terrific for effectiveness with workflow management.
  • Great with configuration, tuning and repair of data.
  • Ease of use.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's super terrific with workflow automation. Terrific with data backup and convenient with encryption of data. Reliable with asset management Great to discover virtual servers

Excellent ETL Option for Corporate Data Integration

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 30, 2018
KG
Karina Gonzalez
Manager Data Management
Tenaris (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
10 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
InfoSphere Information Server is used primarily as a corporate data integration platform. It allows to integrate data from several different commercial and industrial systems. It is a cross-departamental integration platform for extracting, transforming and loading data.
Pros and Cons
  • Any source to any target support.
  • ETL flexibility without coding.
  • Extreme data volume processing.
  • Native integration with other Data integration functionalities such as data profiling, data cleansing, metadata management.
Likelihood to Recommend
Information Server is extremely useful to replace manual developments that require a lot of coding effort. It significantly increases the productivity of the initial development and the future maintenance of the processes since it has a visual development environment with self-documentation.

IBM InfoSphere DataStage Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 12, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
16 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have used DataStage for many years to be able to create the integrations for the loading of the DW or migrations in different companies of different industries
Pros and Cons
  • It is very strong to make transformations/data derivations
  • It is very easy to connect to various external data sources. It has an interface (stages) for each connection that simplifies the task
  • It is a stable platform. And that parallelism helps make it fast for loading, if the process is well designed
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited:
  • Handling large amounts of data
  • Complex processes that require high levels of transformation
  • Connections to different data sources
Less appropriate
  • To use it as a workflow for execution of stored procedures
  • For file manipulation

IBM InfoSphere, product family for your IT family!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 02, 2018
GI
Gunes INAL
Data Warehouse Consultant
Intellium (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use infosphere for
1-Load Data Warehouse: I design ETL jobs for load data to our ODS, DWH and DM tables
2-Design DWH with Data Architect: I use data architect for creating DWH and DM tables. Create diagrams for business flow, table relationships etc.
3-Analysis to OLTP with Information Analyser: I use IA to check our OLTP system.
4-Information Governance Catalog: see the big picture of business and infostructure. We use IGC as a data dictionary, data lineage, and business lineage tool.
Pros and Cons
  • IIS best for ETL ,not ELT , and many and diffrent source systems.
  • It also can process big data , unstuctured data
  • It is not only DWH , you can use infosphere for analys and see the bigger architecture of your OLTP systems
Likelihood to Recommend
You can use infosphere:
-If you have multiple targets and source systems and they are different than each other.
-If your infostructure is so big and unplaned well so you can't find what you want to see.
-If your databases not so strong to process your data

Information Server - A world class Integration Platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2018
GA
Gonzalo Angeleri
Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager
GRUPO DATCO (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
15 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
InfoSphere Information Server is used primarily as a corporate data integration platform. It allows not only integrate data from different systems but also analyzes the quality of the data and improve it. Additionally, it allows managing metadata from end to end allowing a general overview of the data integration environment. Regarding the use cases, it is a cross-industry integration platform covering the need for data movement, improvement of data quality, metadata management of any integration project.
Pros and Cons
  • ETL capabilities, integrating data from any source system to any destination.
  • MPP Processing Engine
  • Data Profiling & Data Cleansing capabilities with multi-country support for common data such as names and addresses
  • Metatada management capabilities not only within the platform but also with 3er party tools like BI tools
Likelihood to Recommend
It can contribute a lot of value to any project that requires data integration either in batch or near real-time mode. You can manage the quality of the data as they are moved from a data source to the various destinations. It also allows managing the metadata of the entire environment and is especially useful to cover the requirements of a data governance program.

Maybe it is not the most appropriate platform to integrate data in real-time mode.

Great product but expensive

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 18, 2014
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM InfoSphere Information Server
13 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
IBM InfoSphere is being used across the whole organization. The problem it addresses: DW/BI.
Pros and Cons
  • ETL
  • Parallel processing
  • Address verification using QualityStage
  • Single view of inormation
Likelihood to Recommend
  • IBM InfoSphere is great for large/complex implementations. If your implementation is small, do not bother about using this product due to its complexity and licensing cost.
  • Do you want to see a single view of information across enterprise- use this product.
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