Heritage Ascential Software Portfolio, Now Available in Passport Advantage, Delivers Trustable Information for Enterprise Initiatives
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Software Announcement July 18, 2006 Heritage Ascential software portfolio, now available in Passport Advantage, delivers trustable information for enterprise initiatives Overview structures ranging from simple to highly complex. It manages data At a glance With the 2005 acquisition of arriving in real time as well as data Ascential Software Corporation, received on a periodic or scheduled IBM software products acquired IBM added a suite of offerings to its basis and enables companies to from Ascential Software information management software solve large-scale business problems Corporation are now available portfolio that helps you profile, through high-performance through IBM Passport Advantage cleanse, and transform any data processing of massive data volumes. under new program numbers and across the enterprise in support of A WebSphere DataStage Enterprise a new, simplified licensing model. strategic business initiatives such as Edition license grants entitlement to You can now license the following business intelligence, master data media for both WebSphere programs for distributed platforms: DataStage Server and WebSphere management, infrastructure • consolidation, and data governance. DataStage Enterprise Edition. Core product: WebSphere The heritage Ascential programs in Datastore Enterprise Edition, this announcement are now WebSphere RTI enables WebSphere WebSphere QualityStage available through Passport DataStage jobs to participate in a Enterprise Edition, WebSphere Advantage under a new, service-oriented architecture (SOA) ProfileStage Enterprise Edition, streamlined licensing and pricing by allowing them to receive and WebSphere RTI, and model. The function of the products route real-time service requests. WebSphere DataStage Server has not changed. WebSphere DataStage Server • Companion products: Additional designer client licenses; If you purchased maintenance for simplifies the implementation of data programs for connectivity to heritage Ascential products, you can transformation in any data enterprise applications, renew your entitlements based upon integration project. complex data handling, and the announced programs. Associated offerings include changed-data capture Within a high-performance parallel WebSphere DataStage Pack offerings connectivity; and modules to framework, WebSphere for connectivity with enterprise tailor data quality solutions ProfileStage Enterprise Edition applications, WebSphere DataStage Changed Data Capture (CDC) For ordering, contact: automates the process of profiling Your IBM representative or the and analyzing source data-column offerings, WebSphere QualityStage Module offerings for optimizing Americas Call Centers at values and structures, providing 800-IBM-CALL Reference: YE001 target database recommendations specific data quality scenarios, IBM such as primary keys and foreign WebSphere Transformation Extender keys. It reduces the time and cost for DataStage, and additional required for implementing business WebSphere DataStage and initiatives by identifying the QualityStage Designer and reliability of the data. WebSphere ProfileStage Designer client licenses. WebSphere QualityStage Enterprise Edition automates the process of Key prerequisites investigating, standardizing, matching, and surviving data, Refer to the Technical information reducing the time and cost required section for details. for implementing business initiatives, and also improving the Planned availability dates reliability of the data used for both operations and analytics — all within July 28, 2006 (electronic software a high-performance parallel delivery) framework. July 28, 2006 (media and WebSphere DataStage Enterprise documentation) Edition supports the collection, transformation, and distribution of large volumes of data, with data This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 206-183 Associated offerings include: Description • WebSphere QualityStage Module for CASS: Enables New license structure WebSphere QualityStage to validate, correct, and enhance U.S. postal addresses using the Coding With this announcement, the subject programs have a Access Support System from the U.S. Postal Service new structure for licensing and pricing, designed for • WebSphere QualityStage Module for SERP (available clarity and simplicity. The former tiered approach to through flexible contract terms, not currently through licensing processors on a server has been replaced with Passport Advantage): Enables WebSphere a new approach that provides a base entitlement for each QualityStage to validate, correct, and enhance product module, with additional processors, additional Canadian postal addresses using the Software users, and companion products available at an additional Evaluation and Recognition Program from Canada Post linear charge. For details of the new pricing, refer to the • WebSphere QualityStage Module for DPID (available Terms and conditions section. through Flexible Contract Terms, not currently through Passport Advantage): Enables WebSphere If you purchased current maintenance for heritage QualityStage to validate, correct, and enhance Ascential products, you can renew your entitlements Australian postal addresses using the Delivery Point based upon the announced programs. Although the Identifier from Australian Post programs are now offered under a new, streamlined • WebSphere QualityStage Module for EIM: Enables licensing and pricing model, the function of the products WebSphere QualityStage to perform initial loading to has not changed from that of previously available Siebel eBusiness solutions and remediate duplicates offerings. in real time with a prebuilt business application • WebSphere ProfileStage Enterprise Edition WebSphere QualityStage Module for WAVES: Enables WebSphere QualityStage to verify, correct, and Within a high-performance parallel framework, enhance worldwide addresses using the Worldwide WebSphere ProfileStage Enterprise Edition automates the Address Verification and Enhancement System process of profiling and analyzing source data-column • WebSphere QualityStage Module for GeoLocator values and structures, providing target database (available through Flexible Contract Terms, not recommendations such as primary keys, foreign keys, and currently through Passport Advantage): Enables table normalizations. Facilitating source-to-target WebSphere QualityStage to enhance address data with mapping and automatically generating basic integration latitude and longitude coordinates for pinpoint location jobs, it reduces the time and cost required for identification implementing business initiatives by identifying the • WebSphere QualityStage Module for DES: Enables reliability of the data. WebSphere QualityStage to perform initial loading to SAP Central Address Module and to remediate WebSphere ProfileStage Enterprise Edition includes duplicates in real time with a pre-built business WebSphere AuditStage, a component that enables application ongoing monitoring of data quality over time. WebSphere • Additional WebSphere DataStage and QualityStage ProfileStage Enterprise Edition also includes a license for Designer client licenses WebSphere MetaStage, which gathers metadata from integration tools, including WebSphere ProfileStage, With the introduction of the product to Passport WebSphere QualityStage, and WebSphere DataStage, and Advantage, a WebSphere QualityStage Enterprise Edition tracks business, event, technical, and project metadata. license entitles you to both WebSphere QualityStage Enterprise Edition and WebSphere QualityStage, Additional WebSphere ProfileStage Designer client previously available as separate offerings. licenses are also available. Each WebSphere ProfileStage Designer client license entitles you to an equal number WebSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition of WebSphere AuditStage client licenses. WebSphere DataStage Enterprise Edition simplifies the With the introduction of the product to Passport implementation of data transformation in any data Advantage, a WebSphere ProfileStage Enterprise Edition integration project, within a high-performance parallel license entitles you to WebSphere ProfileStage Enterprise framework. This offering includes a license for Edition as well as WebSphere ProfileStage, WebSphere WebSphere MetaStage, which gathers metadata from ProfileStage Extended Edition, and WebSphere WebSphere DataStage and other integration tools, AuditStage, previously available as separate offerings. including WebSphere ProfileStage and WebSphere QualityStage, and which tracks business, event, technical, WebSphere QualityStage Enterprise Edition and project metadata. WebSphere QualityStage Enterprise Edition automates Associated add-on offerings include: the process of investigating, standardizing, matching, and surviving data, reducing the time and cost required for • WebSphere DataStage Changed Data Capture for implementing business initiatives, and also improving the Microsoft SQL Server: Enables WebSphere reliability of the data used for both operations and DataStage to source just the changed data from SQL analytics — all within a high-performance parallel Server database logs framework. This offering includes a license for • WebSphere DataStage Changed Data Capture for WebSphere MetaStage, which gathers metadata from Oracle: