What is IBM InfoSphere Optim?

IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ solutions manage data from requirements to retirement. They boost performance, empower collaboration and improve governance across applications, databases and platforms. By managing data properly over its lifetime, organizations are better equipped to support business goals with less risk.

Benefits

• **Application retirement and consolidation: **Archive data from decommissioned applications and historical transaction records, while providing ongoing access to the data for query and reporting that is compliant with retention regulations.
• **Comprehensive test data management capabilities: **Scale data across applications, databases, operating systems and hardware platforms to help secure your test environments, accelerate release cycles and reduce costs.
• Maximize the business value of big data environments:
• Obtain proven data lifecycle management capabilities, maximizing the business value of data warehouse and big data environments through managing data growth and lowering TCO.
• Single scalable archiving solution for the enterprise:
• Lack of data archiving can impair the performance of mission-critical enterprise systems. Solve data growth problems at the source, improve efficiency and minimize the risks associated with managing structured data throughout its lifetime.

InfoSphere Optim products

• **IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management. **Extract data across systems and databases into test environments for rapid software testing, while maintaining test integrity.
• **IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy. **Protect non-production confidential data, using a variety of masking techniques across databases, applications and systems.
• **IBM InfoSphere Optim Archive. **Decommission and archive applications and their data to reduce storage costs and risks, while keeping the necessary data.
• **IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Orchestrator: **Use easy-to-define rules to calculate and extract the test data values needed to match the exact requirements of test cases.
• **IBM InfoSphere Optim Extended Data Privacy: **Protect unstructured, semi-structured and structured data in testing, development and analytics environments across the enterprise.