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IP&S Center of Excellence (CoE)

Overview

The ILSL site in Jerusalem is home to a team of consultants from the Information Platform and Solutions (IP&S) EMEA Center of Excellence.

What is the IP&S Center of Excellence (CoE)?

The CoE is part of the IP&S Professional Services organization dedicated to helping clients, IBM professional services, and business partners increase the impact and effectiveness of strategic data integration initiatives. This is achieved by applying proven architecture, software, and methodology, standard practices, and deep field expertise to lay the foundations for the implementation of repeatable and strategic programs for clients.



The IP&S CoE program offers a set of service offerings provided as mentoring sessions or workshops, designed specifically to meet individual customer needs. These service offerings cover a range of competencies within the area of data integration, including:

  • Deep software/technology implementation mentoring
  • Standard practices and methodology workshops
  • IBM Information Server: product migrations
  • IBM Information Server: grid and high availability architectures
  • IBM Information Server: metadata strategy
  • Virtual Services
  • Data integration with SAP
CoE in ILSL

Skill and Expertise
The CoE EMEA team members in ILSL Jerusalem use a wide range of skills to deliver solution offerings directly to clients, and enable local IBM professional services, consulting teams, and business partners.
Our team's areas of deep expertise covers the full suite of IBM's Information Server and some of the Master Data Management product offerings. All team members are certified in WebSphere DataStage, WebSphere Quality Stage, Information Analyzer, and have a deep expertise in Metadata Server products. All CoE consultants are constantly achieving additional IP&S product certifications.

Projects
IP&S CoE consultants based in ILSL are actively engaged in H1 2008 in IP&S initiatives for a number of clients, including:
  • BNL (Italy) - Data Governance & Metadata project to implement Metadata Workbench and Business Glossary
  • IKEA (Denmark) - Solution Architecture for Information Server
  • Intelcom (Norway) - Solution Architecture for Information Server including Metadata Server mentoring
  • Coloplast (Denmark) - WebSphere DataStage EE Migration Project
  • Bank of Austria - Information Server Solution Architecture including Information Analyzer and WebSphere DataStage

Manager

Victor Ofstein