IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer Reviews

.The simplicity of the GUI and the ease of visualization

The not so sturdy connection with Oracle Databases

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Customer

I healthcare understanding the quality, content and structure of data is so important. We choose to leverage Information Analyzer as it helps with those critical business decisions. I love the fact that it utilizes reusable rules library.

I cannot think of anything at this time other then wishing it was move integrated with the other infosphere tools. I do believe that in future versions we will see this. In our usecase we are on an over version and are just getting started to the learning the power of the tool

Yes, I would.

We need to profile our data and understand the data we are receivein in from Payers within our payer claims process.

Starting out it is fairly easy to pick up on your own. Robust functionality

The Security roles are confusing. Took a lot of digging into the roles to understand what access we were granting.

Start at 11.7

Data profiling and classification.

.cababilities to run rules against data sets

not user friendly for non technical data analysts

Data

Works well for databases where you have some information

Doesn't provide details needed for 'blind' databases.

Understand the content of orphaned databases

Weuse this tiool explicitly to scan PII information from outr test data bases. Its pretty simple to use and easily trainable to our team menbers.

This tool not only scans, but also gives additional metrics information unlike Guardium.

It was moved out of the OPTIM suite decomissionibng Discovery and moving it to Datastage,

IScan databases for confidential information.

The integration with the rest of the InfoSphere suite like IGC and Data Stage. Information analyzer moves the data quality responsibility closer to the data owners. It gives indviduals with not a lot of technical background the ability to take control of their data quality.

Not all the functionality has been ported to the thin client. The thick client is very bulky and cumbersome. It is not very intuitive.

IA's true diffrentiator is it's ties to the rest of the InfoSphere suite. If you are already a data stage quality stage customer this is a no brainer. If you are considering or own Information Governace Catalog it does not make sense to evaluate another product. Once your company has the technical accumen to support the back end or you go to a cloud implentation, you business will fine IA invaluable.

Data quality of file transmissions to customers.

High accuracy in analysis of data in depth and produce usable reports. Support various kind of input data. Monitoring module works nicely for new incoming data. Generates configurable reports based on the data received.

There is no issues till the date. This is a complex but high data handling tool with accuracy tool.

This gives insights of realtime data. So nice tool.

Data analysis and reporting becomes easier with this.

I really like the ease of use within IBM infosphere. This makes it very easy for the user to navigate inside the software.

I cant really say I dislike anything about IBM InfoSphere. Have been using for 2 years and have seen no issues.

Data quality issues and person management organizing.

The tool allows a way to quickly summarize the data in a field to provide metrics that would be time consuming to obtain manually. It also gives a quick summary of the tables. This in opinion is the most useful feature.

I dislike that the software does not allow you to compare fields to truly profile data. Field in tables have dependencies and the software does not allow you to see this. You also cannot see all of the data in a table. It blocks different views of the data. This creates the need for a spreadsheet or querying tool.

Look into all

Options. I am unsure on the cost, but the tool is not robust enough for our purposes. It adds time to our tasks and does not solve all issues.