What do you know about your data? And how do you know what you know about your data? Information governance initiatives address corporate concerns about the quality and reliability of information in planning and decision-making processes. Metadata management refers to the tools, processes, and environment that are provided so that organizations can reliably and easily share, locate, and retrieve information from these systems. Enterprise-wide information integration projects integrate data from these systems to one location to generate required reports and analysis. During this type of implementation process, metadata management must be provided along each step to ensure that the final reports and analysis are from the right data sources, are complete, and have quality. This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the information governance initiative and highlights the immediate needs for metadata management. It explains how IBM InfoSphere™ Information Server provides a single unified platform and a collection of product modules and components so that organizations can understand, cleanse, transform, and deliver trustworthy and context-rich information. It describes a typical implementation process. It explains how InfoSphere Information Server provides the functions that are required to implement such a solution and, more importantly, to achieve metadata management. This book is for business leaders and IT architects with an overview of metadata management in information integration solution space. It also provides key technical details that IT professionals can use in a solution planning, design, and implementation process.

Organizations face many challenges in managing documents that they need to conduct their business. IBM® Production Imaging Edition V5.0 is the comprehensive product that combines imaging, capture, and automation to provide the capabilities to process and manage high volumes of document imaging over their entire life cycle. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces Production Imaging Edition, its components, the system architecture, its functions, and its capabilities. It primarily focuses on IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture V8.0, including how it works, how to design a document image capture solution, and how to implement the solution using Datacap Studio. Datacap Studio is a development tool that designers use to create rules and rule sets, configure a document hierarchy and task profiles, and set up a verification panel for image verification. This book highlights the advanced technologies that are used to create dynamic applications, such as IBM Taskmaster Accounts Payable Capture. It includes an in-depth walkthrough of the dynamic application, Taskmaster Accounts Payable Capture, which provides invaluable insight to designers in developing and customizing their applications. In addition, this book includes information about high availability, scalability, performance, and backup and recovery options for the document imaging solution. It provides known best practices and recommendations for designing and implementing such a solution. This book is for IT architects and professionals who are responsible for creating, improving, designing, and implementing document imaging solutions for their organizations.