SWG/015/2008
IBM bringt den IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM)-Server und das IBM InfoSphere Warehouse mit Optim Data Retention auf den Markt.
Bei dem MDM-Server handelt es sich um eine Software, mit der Unternehmen sämtliche Daten, wie etwa von Kunden, Produkten, Konten, Lieferanten, Mitarbeitern, Neukunden oder Anfragen, zentral für die unternehmensweite Nutzung verwalten können. Zusätzlich zu der einfachen Funktionsweise und der klaren Sicherheitsstruktur beinhaltet der MDM-Server intelligente Funktionen für Vertrieb, Marketing und Buchhaltung. Der Server bietet Unternehmen die notwendige Flexibilität beim Einstieg in MDM-Projekte und in SOA MDM-Systeme und ist ab sofort verfügbar.
Mit dem IBM InfoSphere Warehouse mit Optim Data Retention können Unternehmen die kontinuierliche Informationsflut und die dadurch steigende Datenmenge besser organisieren und archivieren. Die neue Lösung kombiniert die Stärken der IBM Data Warehouse Software mit der Optim Data Retention-Lösung der kürzlich übernommen Firma Princeton Softech. Basis des InfoSphere Warehouse ist die DB2 Datenbank von IBM. Die Lösungen wird in Q1 2008 verfügbar sein.
"Der IBM InfoSphere MDM-Server geht weit über das hinaus, was herkömmliche MDM-Lösungen bieten, indem er erweiterte Funktionalitäten in einer einzigen integrierten Plattform vereint und so das Management verschiedenr Typen von Stammdaten ermöglicht." erklärt Steffen Ramsaier, Marketing Manager für Information Management bei der IBM Deutschland.
Die vorgestellten Lösungen sind der Beginn einer Reihe neuer Information Management-Lösungen, die IBM in diesem Jahr unter dem Namen "IBM InfoSphere" auf den Markt bringen wird. Auf der CeBIT 2008 zeigt IBM in Halle 2, Stand A10, ihre MDM- und Warehousing Lösungen.
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IBM Releases Industry-First Master Data Management Software
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server Now Available
ARMONK, NY - 30 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server, new software that allows businesses to centrally manage customer, product, and account data for use enterprise-wide.
Master data is the information upon which organizations' operations and critical business decisions are based. Many businesses today are faced with master data that is distributed across multiple front and back-office systems and cannot be shared enterprise-wide. This problem, which costs businesses millions of dollars in missed revenues and operational inefficiencies, is driving companies to seek more flexibility in how they maintain and use master data as a means of competing and capitalizing on emerging business opportunities.
IBM's approach to this challenge, which the company calls multiform master data management, supports the variety of ways companies define, create, and use master data in their daily operations.
IBM InfoSphere MDM Server is the first product to provide out-of-the-box capabilities for managing master data on customers, products, accounts, suppliers, citizens, employees, prospects, guests, agents, items, product bundles, parts, agreements, and more. It offers sophisticated functionality and security rules to create, view, and edit data. In addition, it contains built-in intelligence and insight from the data that can be injected into day-to-day business transactions for improved operations across sales, marketing, and finance.
"The IBM InfoSphere MDM Server goes beyond what traditional master data management products offer by providing superior functional requirements in one platform," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president, Information Platform & Solutions, IBM. "This helps businesses maintain the accuracy of a broad range of master data types and gives them the necessary tools and pre-built functions to use master data to achieve greater efficiency and better customer service."
The IBM InfoSphere MDM Server offers deployment options that give customers the flexibility to use it for both entry level MDM projects and high volume SOA MDM systems with one platform that allows for incremental, non-disruptive growth.
The product includes new capabilities that will help organizations manage value packages and product bundles. For example, a retail bank can manage a customer's savings, checking and credit card as a single managed account -- a task that banks continue to struggle with from a technical perspective. A bank can also use the MDM Server to tailor product bundles, provide consolidated billing, payments, and statements, and customize service for an account. Additionally companies will gain more flexibility in creating and adding new product data and managing product hierarchies in their daily operations.
IBM InfoSphere MDM Server also boosts an organization's ability to know and understand its customers better through enhanced event notification features that can be set up to flag new data concerning a customer's status, preferences, and identity. This release offers new capabilities to help organizations reduce the time and cost associated with managing compliance data and 'know your customer' regulation.
Finally, the IBM InfoSphere MDM Server provides powerful new data governance capabilities that help businesses respond to increasing needs for defined processes for maintaining data. The software includes new data stewardship task management functionality to manage high load volume for duplicate suspect processing and enhanced workload management tools and user interfaces.
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server marks the launch of new and enhanced product family from IBM, which will be expanded during 2008. Among the planned offerings include a new version of IBM WebSphere Product Center, which will be available this summer. Aimed at companies in the retail, distribution, consumer packaged goods, and consumer electronics industries, WebSphere Product Center helps turn product information into a strategic business asset, powering enterprise-wide sales, marketing and supply chain initiatives including new product introduction, ecommerce, and multi-channel management. Data from WebSphere Product Center can be exported to and used by the MDM Server to bring product data into real-time business processes.
IBM Expands Data Warehousing Portfolio With Optim Technology
New InfoSphere Warehouse Offering Enhances Business Performance
ARMONK, NY - 31 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced new software that allows businesses to better manage the growth of information by integrating data warehousing and archiving capabilities. The new InfoSphere Warehouse with Optim Data Retention will help companies better manage enterprise data throughout its lifecycle and deliver optimal performance and compliance with changing business policies.
InfoSphere Warehouse combines the strength of IBM data warehouse software and recently acquired Princeton Softech's Optim Data Retention solution to more efficiently manage large amounts of data to enhance users' competitive advantage.
"Our clients are achieving significant competitive advantage by capturing insight from massive amounts of information collected during business transactions every day," said Arvind Krishna, Vice President, IBM Database Software. "This ever growing volume of information has a life span -- and eventually an end-point. Managing information across its life span through archiving and retention is the value InfoSphere Warehouse brings to our clients."
"Our mutual clients face the challenge of data growth and how to manage it," said Dave McDowell, President, Kazer. "This new offering will provide them an easier and more cost effective solution for reducing storage costs, improving performance and ensuring compliance to data retention requirements as well as complement our Database Services and Business Intelligence practice as we assist our clients with all of their critical data needs."
The new InfoSphere Warehouse offering is based on DB2 database software, which provides a unique set of innovations that meet growing customer demand for analytics and Information on Demand.
InfoSphere Warehouse with Optim Data Retention will be available end of Q1. Future updates to the IBM data warehouse portfolio will adopt the new InfoSphere family name. For more information on the InfoSphere family of products, please go to www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/warehouse/launch.html
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