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Your company's profitability hinges on its ability to act swiftly and

make sound business decisions, based on a complete and accurate

single view of your customers, suppliers, and operations.

Unfortunately, the critical information required to gain this 360

view and make these key decisions is scattered throughout the enter-

prise, across multiple applications, departments and divisions. And

while each source system contains pieces to the puzzle of enterprise

profitability, each is a distinct silo with a gulf of incompatibility

separating them. You understand the value of leveraging all your

corporate information; you recognize the promise of reconciling all

your data into a single consolidated view. But the path to getting

there is harder to see. That's why so many organizations like yours

are still struggling to get the desired ROI from their strategic busi-

ness applications. Each system calls for data in different formats

and each system defines its data differently. Theres no way to

assess the ripple affect of changes to data at the source or to com-

municate changes to downstream information users. Data volumes

are growing exponentially, and you need to access and process data

in both real-time and shorter batch windows. It's confusion on a

mammoth scale -- and it's preventing your company from getting

what it needs for a competitive advantage.

Until Now.

Introducing DataStage

DataStage, a core component of Ascential's Enterprise Integration Suite,

enables you to tightly integrate enterprise information, regardless of the

sources, targets and time frames. Whether you're building an enterprise

data warehouse to support the information needs of the entire company,

building a "real-time" data warehouse, or integrating dozens of source sys-

tems to support enterprise applications like CRM, SCM, and ERP,

DataStage helps ensure the success of your enterprise data integration

initiatives.

DataStageThe solution to enterprise data integrationThe most sources. The most targets. All built on the most scalable androbust architecture available.

DataStage delivers three core capabilities necessary

for success in enterprise data integration: the most

comprehensive sources and targets, to easily and

quickly connect to any source or target system;

advanced maintenance and development, whichsimplifies administration and speeds implementation,

and the most scalable platform available, to han-

dle today's massive volumes of new corporate data

through high-performance processing.

Ascential Software

tasheet

The Ascential Enterprise Integration

Suite transforms your corporate data

into "Intelligent Information" - informa

tion that is reliable, relevant and com

plete - so you can maximize your ITinvestments and make the best busi-

ness decisions possible, based on th

most accurate, current information

available.

That's because it's the only integrated

solution to deliver on the vision of

the real-time enterprise. Our service-

oriented architecture is part of a plat-

form of services that includes paralle

processing, end-to-end meta data ma

agement, and complete connectivity

support real-time data profiling, qualit

and transformation with inherent Nat

Language Support. The result is on-

demand data integration - from any

source, anywhere, at anytime - regard

less of the data volumes or complexit

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The Industrys Most Powerful Solution

DataStage supports the collection, integration and transformation

of high volumes of data, with data structures ranging from simpleto highly complex. DataStage manages data arriving within sec-

onds of being acquired, as well as massive quantities of data that

flood the system, in daily, weekly or monthly processing intervals.

The Most Comprehensive Source andTarget Support

DataStage supports a virtually unlimited number of heterogeneous

data sources and targets in a single job, including:

> text files

> complex data structures in XML

> ERP systems such as SAP and PeopleSoft> almost any database - including partitioned databases -

such as Oracle, DB2 EE/EEE/ESE (with and without DPF),

Informix, Sybase, Teradata, SQL Server, and the list goes

on including access using ODBC

> web services

> SAS

> Messaging and EAI including WebSphereMQ and

SeeBeyond

and many more. If it's in your enterprise, it's supported.

Real Time Data Integration Support

DataStage can operate in real-time, capturing messages or extract-

ing data at a moment's notice on the same platform that also inte-

grates bulk data. This provides a key advantage over competing

offerings that require the use of two separate tools to achieve the

same functionality.

Advanced Maintenance and Development

DataStage features a powerful architecture that gives developers

maximum speed, flexibility and effectiveness in building, deploying,

updating and managing their data integration infrastructure. The

productivity-enhancing features in DataStage reduce learning

curves, simplify administration, and optimize the use of develop-

ment resources resulting in a decreased development and mainte-

nance cycle for data integration applications. As a result,

DataStage enables companies to spend less time developing their

integration and more time reaping the benefits of it.

Complete Development Environment

The DataStage design metaphor is characterized best by the

phrase "work as you think." Developers use a data-flow model of

application programming and execution, which allows them to cre-

ate a visual sequential data flow. A robust graphical palette helps

developers diagram the flow of data through their environment via

GUI driven drag-and-drop design. Developers also benefit from a

versatile scripting language, powerful debugging capabilities, and

an open application programming interface (API) for leveraging

external code.

Get Started Quickly

Intelligent Assistants are wizard-like functionality within DataStage

that used for initial job creation. Creating Slowly Changing

Dimension jobs (supporting Types 1, 2, and 3) is one example of

Intelligent Assistants available. Job templates and pre-configured

components also speed development.

Powerful Pre-built Functions

DataStage features the industry's most extensive data integration

development environment, with a library of more than 400 pre-built

functions and routines that allows developers to simply pick and

choose.

Reuse, Versioning and Sharing

DataStage shortens the development

cycle by promoting the reuse of exist-

ing data integration business logic. This

works through the concept of contain-

ers, which allow jobs and meta data

created in one container to be shared

and reused by other jobs. Versioning

extends the development, test and

deployment of jobs among multiple

developers or DataStage servers.

DataStage's end-to-end meta da

sharing among all the tools that

make up the data integration lif

cycle ensures that all relevant

meta data is connected for a

clear, unambiguous picture of

your business.

Figure 1:DataStage is the solution

of choice for complex data

integration challenges.

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Event-based Scheduling and Monitoring

Administrators can schedule any DataStage job using its built-in,calendar-based graphical or command-line scheduling capability.

Alternatively, DataStage can be managed directly using any enter-

prise-class scheduling tool. Detailed job execution information for

problem determination, tuning, and monitoring is available via a

GUI, text and XML for incorporation with your existing operational

infrastructure.

The Most Scalable Platform Available

DataStage enables companies to solve large-scale business prob-

lems through high-performance processing of massive data vol-

umes. By leveraging the parallel processing capabilities of multi-

processor hardware platforms, DataStage Enterprise Edition can

scale to satisfy the demands of ever growing data volumes and

ever shrinking batch windows.

DataStage cuts the time-processing requirements and linearly

increases speed of throughput for integrating massive amounts of

data. It also boosts developer productivity by eliminating the need

to code new applications to run in parallel-a costly process that

often requires the expertise of specialists. Development is done

using sequential logic and the deployment configuration automati-

cally adds the desired degree of parallelism.

Open Extensible EnvironmentDataStage Enterprise Edition is a robust, open environment that not

only supports Ascential integration products like Ascential

ProfileStage and Ascential QualityStage, but third-party appli-

cations like SAS, as well. In addition, DataStage supports custom,

homegrown code, enabling companies to reuse their existing pro-

prietary code and execute it in parallel against unlimited data volumes.

Flexible Parallelism

A separate configuration file allows users to define the degree of

parallelism without changes to application code. As a result, should

the business need to boost the frequency of its integration, users

could take the application from 2-way in the morning, to 32-way in

the afternoon, to 128-way at night-all with only a simple change to

the configuration file.

The Secret: Partitioning and Dynamic Re-partitioning

Ascential's parallel technology operates by a divide-and-conquer

technique, splitting the largest integration jobs into subsets ("parti-

tion parallelism") and flowing these subsets concurrently across all

available processors ("pipeline parallelism"). This combination of

pipeline and partition parallelism delivers true linear scalability

(defined as an increase in performance proportional to the number

of processors) and makes hardware the only mitigating factor to

performance. However, downstream processes may need data par-

titioned differently. Consider a transformation that is based on cus-

tomer last name, but the enriching needs to occur on zip code - for

house-holding purposes - with loading into the warehouse based

on customer credit card number (more on parallel database inter-

faces below). With dynamic data re-partitioning, data is re-parti-

tioned on-the-fly between processes - without landing the data to

disk - based on the downstream process data partitioning needs.

Wide-Ranging Parallel Hardware Support

DataStage scales effortlessly from SMP and SMP clusters to MPP

servers with hundreds of processors. Ensures critical integration

applications will scale in pace with business.

DataStage

Figure 2: DataStage Transformer

Figure 3: Data Re-partitioning

Much of the significance of the capabilities provided by

DataStage Enterprise Edition is due to the ease with

which pre-existing serial applications are transformed to

operate in parallel. Without the DataStage Enterprise

Edition, dealing with the complexity of setting up and

managing parallel processes would be formidable.

RICHARD WINTER, President, Winter Group

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DataStageWindows NT, Windows 2000, Windows

Server 2003

IBM AIX

HP Compaq Tru64

HP HP-UX

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

Sun Solaris

Available

Available

Available

DataStage Extended EditionWindows NT, Windows 2000, Windows

Server 2003

IBM AIX

HP Compaq Tru64

HP HP-UX

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

Sun Solaris

Included

Included

Included

DataStage Enterprise EditioWindows 2000, Windows Server

(coming soon)

IBM AIX

HP Compaq Tru64

HP HP-UX

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS

Sun Solaris

Included

Included

Included

Platforms

MetaStage

Web Services Client PACK

Message Adapters

DataStage

Products

DataStage

DataStage is the industry-leading data integration and transformation

product that provides advanced development and maintenance

capabilities for unsurpassed levels of productivity.

DataStage Extended Edition

DataStage Extended Edition builds upon DataStage by incorporating

Ascential MetaStage meta data management solution for a clear,

unambiguous definition and history of your data, and . the Web

Services Client PACK, which enables DataStage designers to lever-

age web services-based resources to enrich their job design, or as

source and target information remotely. Messages adaptors such as

IBM's WebSphere MQ, are also included with DataStage Extended

Edition.

DataStage Enterprise Edition

DataStage Enterprise Edition takes performance to a new level.

Parallel processing capabilities, including partitioning, dynamic re-

partitioning, parallel database interfaces, and exploitation of scalable

hardware environments allows you to handle the massive volume,

velocity and variety of data flowing into your organization. Together

with end-to-end meta data management, advanced maintenance

and development, and the ability to operate in real-time, DataStage

Enterprise Edition provides the most powerful data integration and

transformation solution available.

National Language Support:

DataStage is National Language Support (NLS) enabled using

Unicode.

Ascential also provides DataStage Enterprise Edition MVS, which

natively executes on the mainframe. For more information on any

Ascential product or service, please visit our web site at:

www.ascential.com. Or call us at: 1-800-966-9875.

About Ascential Ascential Software Corporation is the leading provider of enterprise data integration solutions to the Global 2000 andgovernment agencies. Customers use the Ascential Enterprise Integration Suite and products to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into

reusable information that drives business success. Ascential Software's unique, comprehensive data integration suite enables customers to easily

collect, validate, organize, administer and deliver information to realize more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability.Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential Software has offices worldwide and supports more than 2,200 customers in such industries as finan-

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Figure 4:Putting It All Together: Data Flow,

Automatic Partitioning and Re-partitioning,

Scalable Hardware

TechnicalSpecifications