As part of its database announcements on Tuesday, IBM Corp said that it will publish the specifications of its Information Warehouse Architecture to enable customers to build Information Warehouses and to provide guidelines for software vendors. The document describes the components and interfaces required to do Information Warehouse implementations and enable the development of compatible easy-to-use client-server applications that provide access to all corporate data via a set of data access capabilities. The interfaces in the document are based on industry standards whenever possible, IBM said, adding that it will make all interfaces open and public. It will immediately publish the currently defined interfaces, with the other interfaces to be published by the end of the year, IBM said.
