What is IIS Suite

IIS =  IBM InfoSphere Information Server

IIS from IBM could mean:

• InfoSphere Information Server Workgroup Edition (IIS WE) = Data Integration or ETL(DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, and Metadata Workbench)

• InfoSphere Information Server for Data Warehousing (IIS DW) = Data Warehousefor Smart Analytics System

IIS consists of:

• Data Stage: IBM’s main ETL & data integration tool

• Quality Stage: IBM’s main data quality tool (needs to be licensed seperately)

• Fast Track: write the mapping spec to generate Data Stage & Quality Stage jobs & reports

• Business Glossary: to edit business meaning/data dictionary

• Blueprint Director: link everything: metadata, ETL, data model

• Information Analyzer: to understand the content, structure and quality of the data

• Information Services Director: to deploy data stage/quality jobs as web services or EJB

• Metadata Workbench: create data lineage between database, files and BI models

• Metadata Server : stores operational metadata like how many rows were written

Links to IBM Documentation:

• IIS Info Centre, in particular the Learning section where they provide an intro, and the Roadmap section where they explain aboutintegration with Cognos and Cloud, as well as reporting and metadata.

• IIS Product Documentation, where we can find not only release 8.5 documentation, but also all previous releases. The documentationis very exhaustive, covering  DataStage, QualityStage, Blueprint Director, Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, and Information Analyzer.