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IBM Introduces Two Software Products as Part of InfoSphere Portfolio

Published: August 18, 2008

These products have been enhanced both in terms of capabilities and ease of deployment to better help customers create and manage trusted information from across the enterprise to improve business performance.

IBM recently introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. These products have been enhanced both in terms of capabilities and ease of deployment to better help customers create and manage trusted information from across the enterprise to improve business performance.

IBM is introducing a new version of its IBM master data management software. The company is also releasing a new version of IBM InfoSphere Information Server, which provides new capabilities that allow customers to standardize and resolve multicultural name data.  In addition, IBM is offering enhanced globalization and improved ease-of-use with new automation features to simplify and speed large-scale information integration projects across the globe.

The new release of MDM Server for PIM provides several significant enhancements that make the software simpler to deploy and use. An improved user interface makes it easier for users to interact with product information. The software is now integrated with InfoSphere Information Server so that customers can take advantage of that product’s data cleansing capabilities to improve the quality of information managed in InfoSphere MDM Server for PIM. In addition, improvements to the underlying technology – including use of the JAVA application protocol interface and easy integration with enterprise solutions based on a service-oriented architecture – make MDM Server for PIM faster to roll out.

Expanded Global Data and Project Support for InfoSphere Information Server To help businesses make more insightful decisions and serve customers more effectively, IBM is adding its proven multi-cultural name resolution technology, now called InfoSphere Global Name Recognition as a module of the InfoSphere Information Server platform. This combination will help businesses use Information Server to derive more information from multi-cultural names and improve name matching using SOA enabled interfaces to connect to name data across the enterprise. InfoSphere Global Name Recognition uses sophisticated linguistics analysis gleaned from over a billion names from around the world, to help organizations better identify and understand multi-cultural names. This added module along with InfoSphere Information Server’s expanded global address verification support for over 244 countries, provides organizations with market-leading capabilities for dealing with multi-cultural names and addresses.