IBM`s Information Integrator software has seen its first deployment in SA, two months after it became generally available locally.
While IBM is not at liberty to name its first customer, it describes the company as "one of IBM`s largest financial services customers".
IBM`s Information Integrator has been deployed to pipe data to a single environment from a range of data types across various enterprises.
Gordon Barnes, IBM SA`s DB2 information management software sales manager, says one of the biggest business constraints today is the need to perform live handling of high volumes of information in many different formats. "There`s your own data as well as that of suppliers, partners, customers and prospects. And it`s contained in formats from e-mails, spreadsheets, text files and flat files to XML content, voicemail, photos, video and audio files."
Barnes says companies are not only managing different data types, but also different applications. "This pushes up skills requirements, eroding profits."
This is why there is the need for central data management, "as though it comes from the same source in the same format".
Information Integrator provides a single view of information assets, regardless of where they reside. "It provides real-time access to and integration of both proprietary and emerging data sources - including structured and unstructured data," says Barnes.
"The software can slash the requirement for hand-coding programs to bridge information repositories by 65%. As a result, businesses can increase efficiencies, focusing less on technology and more on growing their business."
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