IBM Information Server provides a unified mechanism for publishing and managing shared Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services across data quality, data transformation, and federation functions, allowing information specialists to easily deploy services for any information integration task and consistently manage them. This enables developers to take data integration logic built using IBM Information Server and publish it as an “always on” service — in minutes. The common services also include the metadata services, which provide standard service-oriented access and analysis of metadata across the platform.

InfoSphere  Information Services Director (ISD) provides an integrated environment for designing services that enables you to rapidly deploy integration logic as services without assuming extensive development skills. With a simple, wizard-driven interface, in a few minutes you can attach a specific binding and deploy a reusable integration service. Information Services Director also provides these features:

	Administrator services for cataloging and registering services.
	Shared reporting and security services.
	A metadata services layer that promotes reuse of the information services by actually defining what the service does and what information it delivers