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IBM outlines ‘information as a service’ strategy
By Graeme Burton
Computer giant IBM has been fleshing out its ‘information as a service’ strategy – a blend of enterprise content management (ECM), database and service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology – for the first time since the completion of its $1.6bn purchase of FileNet.
The idea, says Alyse Passarelli, director of worldwide data services in the IBM Information Management division, is to provide a single interface for organisations into both structured and unstructured data.
That interface will be provided by IBM’s Information Server product, which is based on technology grubbed from its acquisition of data-quality software provider Ascential.
It provides knowledge workers with access to a disparate range of information in the same way that an application server provides different applications with access to backend databases. Part of that strategy involves providing full support for native XML within the latest release of IBM’s DB2 database.
