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Press Release Summary:
Featuring subsecond response, WebSphere Information Integrator v8.2 provides organizations with real-time, integrated access to disparate and distributed information. Enterprise search, federation, transformation, data placement, and event publishing capabilities enable joint solutions with WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Business Integration technologies. Scalable solution supports business continuity, workload distribution, and business integration scenarios.
Original Press Release:
IBM Information Integrator Joins the IBM WebSphere Brand
Overview
The IBM DB2® Information Integration product portfolio is joining the WebSphere® brand as IBM WebSphere Information Integrator to capitalize on key business and technology synergies.
The WebSphere brand is positioned as integration and infrastructure software to maximize business flexibility and responsiveness. Integration and openness are attributes that complement the IBM Information Integration portfolio and its role in providing organizations real-time, integrated access to disparate and distributed information. The enterprise search, federation, transformation, data placement (including replication and caching), and event publishing capabilities within the IBM Information Integration portfolio enable a variety of joint solutions with WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Business Integration technologies. For example:
· WebSphere Information Integrator + WebSphere Portal:
Extensive, standards-based, integrated access to distributed content and data sources from within WebSphere Portal applications
· WebSphere Information Integrator + WebSphere Business Integration:
Powerful complementary business solutions that combine disparate information sources, applications, and business processes
· WebSphere Information Integrator + WebSphere MQ Workflow:
Rich workflow applications integrated with and driven by disparate and diverse information sources
As a result of joining the WebSphere brand, the following product names for the distributed platform have changed:
· IBM DB2 Information Integrator is now IBM WebSphere Information Integrator (5724-C74). The packaged offerings are:
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Event Publisher Edition
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Replication Edition
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Standard Edition
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Advanced Edition
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Advanced Edition Unlimited
- IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Developer Edition
IBM DB2 Information Integrator OmniFind Edition does not change its name. However, it is superseded by IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition (5724-L31). For more information on the added value of IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition, refer to Software Announcement 205-002, dated January 11, 2005.
· IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition (5724-J31) is the new name of IBM DB2 Information Integrator Content Edition. The new names of its features and other product naming information will be covered in a later announcement.
Planned availability date
March 1, 2005
At a glance
IBM WebSphere Information Integrator V8.2 delivers rich new features and offerings that can:
· Find relevant corporate content with new enterprise search middleware
- Subsecond response
- Highly scalable
- Easy administration
· Decrease time to market with enhanced federated access
- Include SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel
- Improve performance up to an order of magnitude
- Enable more automation
· Add value to your business integration environment
- Publish data events from DB2 Universal Database®, IMS(TM), and VSAM
- Initiate processes and facilitate business integration
· Unify diverse and distributed content assets
- Search, browse, check in, check out, add, retrieve, update, annotate, and secure content stored in multiple disparate systems
· Support demanding business continuity, workload distribution, or business integration scenarios
- High-volume, low-latency replication
- Rich conflict detection and resolution options
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Your IBM representative or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001
