IBM® Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform that helps organizations derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across their systems. It allows users to quickly understand and integrate large amounts of information stored within their enterprise and helps to ensure high-quality information over time--delivering it on demand to any person, application or business process.

While IBM Information Server is a powerful set of tools, many IT departments do not believe that maintaining a single view of enterprise data is feasible today because of the high cost of systems to process such a massive amount of data. However, a fundamental shift is taking place in enterprise computing.