The document discusses IBM InfoSphere Data Architect, a tool for modeling, relating, and standardizing diverse data assets. It can design and manage enterprise data models, enforce standards, leverage industry data models, and optimize existing investments. The tool is based on the Eclipse platform and allows various users like data architects, database developers, and administrators to be more productive. It provides logical, physical, and dimensional modeling capabilities as well as tools to define and enforce standards to increase quality and governance.

1. IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
Francis Arnaudiès
f.arnaudies@fr.ibm.com

2. 2Di
Frequently cited concerns
There’s no standardization of terminology and naming so there’s
constant confusion about what the business users want and what they
got when it is delivered.
No understanding of relationships between data objects repeatedly delays
projects. We need more automation of discovery and design tasks to
accelerate delivery.
Our data modeling environment is completely distinct from our other software
design and development tools so it is hard to share design artifacts and stay
in synch.

3. 3Di
3
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
Requirements
Benefits
Model, relate and standardize diverse
and distributed data assets
Data Architect
 Design and manage
enterprise models
 Enforce model
conformance to enterprise
standards
 Leverage industry data
models for best practices
 Optimize existing
investments
 Speed design activities
 Populate Business
Glossary from model
terms
 Validate models for
enterprise conformance
 Reverse engineer and
identify existing
warehouse schemas

4. 4 Discovering the Value of
Based on the eclipse platform
 Intuitive
 Adaptable
 Shell Sharing
Allows Users to be Productive Faster
Application
Developer
Database
Developer
Database
Administrator
Data Architect
InfoSphere Data
Architect
Application Architect
RSA/RSM
IBM Data Studio
IBM Data Studio

5. 5Di
5
An Enterprise Data Modelling Solution
■Enable flexible design
– Logical, physical and dimensional models
– Generate multiple physical models from a
single logical model
■Adopt best practices
– Validate models against enterprise
standards
■Leverage existing assets
– Forward engineer
– Reverse engineer
– Import from other modelling tools
■Collaborate across teams
– Decompose into sub-models
– Merge together
– Share a repository
Model, Relate, Standardize, Leverage, Collaborate

6. IDA – Key Modeling Functions
 Data Models
– Logical Model
– Physical Model
– Domain Model
– Glossary Model
– Mapping Model
 Heterogeneous Database support
 Visualize Design
 Model Validation
 Customized Data Type
 Naming Standards
A collaborative, data design solution to discover, model, relate, and
standardize diverse data assets.

7. 7Di
Defining and Enforcing Standards
Increased Quality and Governance
■Naming
– Words, acronyms, and patterns
■Meaning
– Glossary
■Values
– Domain values or ranges
–Transformation
– Logical to physical
– Physical to logical
■Privileges
– Users, groups, roles
■Privacy
– Sensitive attributes
– Data masking rules
–Traceability
– Auditability
“InfoSphere Data Architect helped us to
semantically integrate all our critical data
sources and to design a business information
model within two weeks. Previously, this
process would have taken more than two and
one-half months.”
Large telecommunications company
Govern and Assure Compliance with Enterprise Standards and Rules

8. 8Di
Manage Design Changes
Understand Changes and Promote - to Speed Up Implementation
• Compare & Synchronize
• Filtering capabilities
• Highlight changes after
synchronization
• Generate change reports
• Export changes
• Generate delta DDL
• Automate Model Management via pluglets
• Automate common tasks and tasks flows
• Execute tasks in bulk (batch mode)
• Customize existing product functions & add specialized
functionality
• 15 pre-defined pluglets for diagramming tasks, model
navigation and reporting
• Enables team collaboration
• Integrates with
Configuration Management
Systems like CVS, Rational
ClearCase and Rational
Team Concert
• Integrates with InfoSphere
Business Glossary to
collaborate terms
assignments between data
stewards and data
modelers

9. 9 Discovering the Value of
Communicate/Reporting  Diagrams
– Overview
– Entity Relationship
– Dimensional Diagrams
– Storage
– DatabaseTopology
– Filter elements
– Shapes
– Notes
Simplify Analysis and Understanding
 Reporting
– Web publishing
– BIRT
– Audit Trail
– Report Design
– Report Templates
– Report creation template wizard
– Various Outputs:
• html
• PDF
• MS Appls (Excel,
Word,PPT)

10.  Open Source
– CVS
 IBM
– CCRC
– RTC
 Shared Objects:
– Projects
– Logical Models
• Submodels
– Physical Models
– Glossary Models
– Domain Models
– Mappings
– SQL Scripts
– Transfiguration Configuration files
Team Support - Source Control

11. CognosInfoSphere Warehouse
InfoSphere
Foundation Tools
Industry Data Models
InfoSphere
Business
Glossary
InfoSphere
Discovery
Information
Analyzer
Metadata
Workbench
InfoSphere Data Architect Integrations
Logical Models
Physical Models
Dimensional Models
Business Glossary Models
InfoSphere Data Architect
InfoSphere Optim Tools
Data
Studio
Optim
Designer
Rational & WebSphere
Rational
Software
Architect
WebSphere
Business
Modeler
Rational
ClearCase &
Rational Team Concert
Rational
Application
Developer

12. Align and Automate Design
Across Process, Service, Application, and Data
Rational Software Architect
InfoSphere Data Architect Data StudioWebSphere Business Modeler
XSD
UML
PDM
DATA
ARCHITECT
DATABASE
ADMINISTRATOR
INTEGRATION
DEVELOPER
SOLUTION
ARCHITECT
 Automate transformation
 Share repository
 Facilitate collaboration
 Maintain alignment