InfoSphere Discovery

Gain insight into business objects and transformation rules

• Discover hidden data relationships to define business objects such as customer, patient or invoice. A business object represents a group of related attributes (columns and tables) or data from one or more applications, databases or data sources.
• InfoSphere Discovery is also used to identify the transformation rules that have been applied to a source system when populating a target such as a data warehouse or an operational data store.
• Once accurately defined, these business objects and transformation rules provide the essential input into information-centric projects such as data integration, MDM and archiving.
• InfoSphere Discovery analyzes the data values and patterns across heterogeneous sources to capture hidden correlations and bring them clearly into view.
• This software accommodates the widest range of enterprise data sources, including relational databases, and any structured data source that can be represented in a text file format, such as a hierarchical database.

Facilitate data archiving projects

• A critical first step in any data archiving project is the accurate representation of the business object to be archived.
• InfoSphere Discovery complements the IBM Optim Data Growth solution by capturing both database-defined and application-managed relationships that make up the business object to be archived.
• By using these products together, you can easily implement best practice archiving capabilities to reduce storage requirements and lower costs.

Accurately implement data consolidation projects

• InfoSphere Discovery automates the identification of complex, cross-system transformation and undocumented business rules.
• It discovers scalar transformations, conditional logic, aggregations, arithmetic equations and other complex business rules that would be nearly impossible to identify by manual inspection alone.
• Using InfoSphere Discovery, IT staff can prototype and test new transformation rules for completeness before they convert and move any data.
• Validated rules can be transferred to IBM InfoSphere FastTrack. Here, business data analysis can augment—without additional documentation and business logic—before generating InfoSphere DataStage extract, transform and load (ETL) jobs.