IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.3 Licence

rhaddur · Post by **rhaddur** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:21 am

I am new to software licence procurement process.
Need details on IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.3- Can any body help on this

1) We would IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.3 software along with following clients,

clients
IBM Information Governance Catalogue
IBM Blue Print Director
IBM InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager

2) How IBM will sell licences for above products whether they will cost on server and type of client

Please suggest

priyadarshikunal · Post by **priyadarshikunal** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:36 am

IBM has PVU based licence for server for a particular product and or entire suite and concurrent client licences.

It will be better if you talk to your product vendor.

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:14 pm

All you need is a server license for Information Governance Catalog - this is sold as a Processor Value Unit entitlement - you buy a certain number of PVUs to license processor cores on an IGC server.

You only license decisions are:
1) How much processing power do you need and what type of processor/core do you use? This will determine how many PVUs you need to buy. IGC typically runs on 2 or 4 cores with 16G or more of RAM. This is anywhere from 140 PVUs to 400 PVUs depending on processor type. Under IBM PVU licensing you pay more for more powerful processors.
2) What environments do you need? Some customers buy non-production licenses for Development and Test environments. It's not that important with IGC as your production environment can have a development Glossary and a published Glossary. It's handy to have one non-production license so you can test new configurations and test patches and upgrades.

With the IGC license you get the following products:
- Business Glossary
- Business Glossary Anywhere
- Business Glossary Eclipse
- Data Quality Console
- Metadata Asset Manager
- Blueprint Director
- InfoSphere Data Architect (data modelling tool that can use the Business Glossary Eclipse extensions)
- Watson Explorer (limited version for putting enterprise search over the IGC)
- Cognos (limited version for Governance Dashboard reporting)

As of version 11.3 you get unlimited users in all of these products. In previous versions you would have had to pay extra for authorised user licenses. There are no user based or clients based costs.

The IGC is a fantastic value bundle.

rhaddur · Post by **rhaddur** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:41 am

vmcburney

Thank you very much for the above details ,
1) we are looking licence for non production environment

Is there any IBM link which provide above details.

Regards
Ramesh

vmcburney · Post by **vmcburney** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:47 pm

You buy this software through IBM software sales or through an IBM business partner. Find out what your local phone number is or who your local IBM partners are for Information Management software.