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Figure 11.2 – InfoSphere Optim solutions for Data Lifecycle Management
Figure 11.2 shows some of the key products that help IT staff manage the various phases
of the data lifecycle. We won’t cover all the products in great detail here, but will cover a
few key ones that you may wish to download and use to expand the capabilities of Data
Studio as you learn more about working with DB2 Express-C and other databases.
11.2.1 Design: InfoSphere Data Architect
The data architect’s key tool is InfoSphere Data Architect, used for discovering, modeling,
relating, and standardizing data. Like any good data modeling offering, it supports logical
and physical modeling and automation features for diverse databases that simplify tasks
such as reverse engineering from existing databases, generating physical models from
logical models, generating DDL from physical models, and visualizing the impact of
changes. For warehouse development, it includes automatic discovery and annotation of
facts, measures, dimensions and outriggers and denormalization into star, snowflake, and
starflake schema.
InfoSphere Data Architect is more than a data modeling tool because it provides a
framework for understanding your data, and can be used as a basis of understanding in
other tools. Because it integrates with InfoSphere, InfoSphere Optim, and Rational
offerings, as well as supporting heterogeneous environments, InfoSphere Data Architect is
a central component in information governance strategies.
Figure 11.3 shows a screenshot of a model in InfoSphere Data Architect.