We live in a data driven world where successful
companies know how to integrate, access, and leverage the precious
data they hold. Business information needs to be reliable
and trustworthy: identified, standardized, matched, reconciled,
and free of redundancies. Metadata – information about your
information – becomes the basis for Master
Data Management as you rationalize your information infrastructure.
The cleanliness of data is required for any type of business entity
- customers, products, suppliers, employees, and chart of accounts.
And it is necessary to ensure that all of your IT systems have
a comprehensive view of information on your most important business
assets.
Information as a Service provides enterprise data integration
“on demand.” You can achieve real-time connection
to Enterprise Applications, Portals, and Business Process Integration
with a maximum amount of flexibility, while minimizing custom
development. These data integration rules are shareable across
the enterprise, anytime, anywhere.
The Data Integration Solution, based on IBM information
integration solutions, provides data quality software that makes
it possible. DATASKILL “ties it all together”
and enables your data infrastructure to drive better decision-making
and operational processes, through:
Consulting
to map information strategy – where we help define a strategic
direction, including compliance coverage, for data across the
enterprise.
Data
cleansing projects – support for the transformation and
cleansing of data – either outsourced or at your location.
Metadata
management analysis - define the metadata, develop patterns
of reuse and codify the findings.
Information
Integration guidance - installation and tuning of software solutions
to provide comprehensive solutions, and provide the mentoring
necessary to make the most of your investment.
Please visit our Data Integration
Library for white papers and ROI studies that explain the
business benefits and ROI that can be derived from a carefully
planned, incrementally-adopted data integration project.
And find out more about Data Quality
for SAP if your organization is running SAP or another ERP
system - or is planning to within the next three years.
Realizing the Full Value
of Strategic IT – ProfileStage. Increasing competitive
pressures and higher revenue targets are driving companies to
invest millions of dollars on strategic business enterprise systems
like ERP, CRM, BI/Analytics, data warehouses, and the like. But
if the data in those systems is incomplete, inaccurate or inconsistent,
any attempt to turn that data into valuable information assets
will fail. The business systems you've invested in will not perform
as expected or deliver the ROI your business demands.
It is well-known that poor data quality is the root
cause of failure across a wide range of corporate initiatives.
To address this critical challenge, ProfileStage brings automation
to the critical and fundamental task of data source analysis,
expediting comprehensive data analysis, reducing the time to value,
and minimizing overall costs and resources for critical data integration
projects.
ProfileStage will help you:
Manage
your data effectively, enabling you to realize the full value
of your strategic IT and business systems investments by delivering
to users information they can trust.
Expedite
comprehensive data analysis, reduce the time-to-market, and
minimize overall costs and resources for critical data integration
projects.
Accurate, Complete Data
Everywhere – QualityStage. As part of the Data Integration
Solution, IBM QualityStage ensures your strategic systems deliver
accurate, complete information to business users across the enterprise.
Through an easy-to-use GUI and capabilities that can be customized
to your organization’s business rules, QualityStage provides
control over international names and addresses and related data
such as phone numbers, birth dates, email addresses and other
descriptive comment fields – and discovers relationships
among them.
Tight
Integration of Enterprise Information – DataStage.
An organization’s ability to act swiftly and make sound business
decisions are based on having access to complete and accurate views
of enterprise data. Organizations recognize the value in leveraging
all of their corporate information and the benefits of reconciling
data into consolidated views, but the path to get there is difficult.
The critical information for a complete view of
customer, product, service or partner information is scattered
throughout the enterprise, across multiple applications, departments
and divisions. And while each source system contains pieces of
valuable information, each is a distinct silo with a gulf of incompatibility
separating them. Each system calls for data in different formats
and each system defines its data differently.
IBM DataStage enables you to tightly integrate enterprise
information, despite having many sources or targets and short
time frames. Whether you're building an enterprise data warehouse
to support the information needs of the entire company, building
a "real time" data warehouse, or integrating dozens
of source systems to support enterprise applications like customer
relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM),
and enterprise resource planning (ERP), DataStage helps ensure
that you will have information you can trust.
Our Business Process Modeling Solution contains
the technology tools and know-how you need to model, simulate,
and analyze business processes quickly and effectively. It enables
you to optimize and validate your business processes before deploying
them.
Model
the things that affect performance – processes, tasks,
costs, times, resources, information and organizational structure.
Develop
alternative scenarios and be able to cost out what impact changes
in any aspect of the process would have on the business.
Tightly
link business processes to your strategic corporate objectives.
Model
the things that measure performance - establish performance
indicators (KPIs) and metrics to drive appropriate and timely
actions.
Analyze
simulation results to determine how to correct bottlenecks,
workload imbalances, and other operational inefficiencies in
your business.
Document
your business processes for regulatory compliance and best practices.
Ensure
rapid and accurate deployment of your solutions with a clean
hand-off to IT.
Line-of-business managers as well as business analysts
can more easily design, develop, and document process flows that
can improve the overall effectiveness of your business.
Our Business Integration Solution gives organizations
relief from the business challenges posed by multiple, disconnected
technologies deployed across an enterprise. All too often,
these systems are used with human intervention to link them together.
Therefore, when changes are made to the systems, human processes
must be re-engineered. The result is a hodge-podge of human
and technological systems that are redundant, incomplete and prone
to errors. Data is hidden, and there is no “single
point of truth” for financial or other data for executives
to rely on.
The Business Integration Solution will enable you
to:
Create
a single, end-to-end system for creating, deploying and managing
complex business processes.
Virtually
eliminate manual processes and human intervention in processes
that are complex and may need to change rapidly.
Eliminate
redundancies, bottlenecks and constraints in your processes.
Ensure
all processes are appropriate to the task, and effectively “hand-off”
either to another process, or to successful completion.
Eliminate
errors due to too many or too few processes.
Expose
data to decision-makers, and ensure that the right answer (the
“single point of truth”) can always be found.
The foundation of our Business Integration Solution
is WebSphere Business Modeler. This tool helps
you model, simulate, and analyze business processes quickly and
effectively. It enables you to optimize and validate your business
processes before deploying them.
Model
the things that affect performance – processes,
tasks, costs, times, resources, information and organizational
structure.
Develop
alternative scenarios and be able to cost out what impact changes
in any aspect of the process would have on the business.
Tightly
link business processes to your strategic corporate objectives.
Model
the things that measure performance - establish performance
indicators (KPIs) and metrics to drive appropriate and timely
actions.
Analyze
simulation results to determine how to correct bottlenecks,
workload imbalances, and other operational inefficiencies in
your business.
Document
your business processes for regulatory compliance and best practices.
Ensure
rapid and accurate deployment of your solutions with a clean
hand-off to IT.
Line-of-business managers as well as business analysts
can more easily design, develop, and document process flows that
can improve the overall effectiveness of your business.
The Business Integration Solution includes WebSphere
Integration Developer. Based on Eclipse technology this
tool is for rapid assembly of business solutions and:
Simplifies
your IT with service-oriented architecture, rendering existing
IT assets as service components for reuse and efficiency.
Provides
a single tool to describe all your processes based on standards.
Enables
rapid assembly of business solutions by wiring reusable service
components.
Integrates
testing, debugging, and deployment for solution development.
For organizations that require advanced choreography
of processes, business processes can be deployed throughout an
organization using a business process integration server.
In addition to creating and deploying new business processes,
you will be able to synchronize business information in multiple
business applications on diverse platforms and transform message
formats en-route between applications.
Helps
your organization take advantage of increased IT agility to
modify and improve business processes in response to competitive
pressures, market changes, and economic fluctuations.
Easy-to-use
graphical tooling that maps business processes to underlying
IT implementations with minimal skills.
Facilitates
improved business agility with rules-based business flows.
No matter how many internal processes you rely on,
or how complex they are, the Business Integration Solution will
help you automate business processes that span people, workflows,
applications, systems, platforms, and architectures.
