IBM® InfoSphere Identity Insight Version 8 contains
many new features and product enhancements.
For the most recent information about IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight
Version 8, go to the IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight Web site located
at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/eas/relationship
New features and enhancements
IBM InfoSphere
Identity Insight Version 8 is the latest release of the product that
was formerly named IBM Relationship Resolution. This Entity Analytic
Solutions product helps organizations solve business problems related
to recognizing the true identity of someone or something ("who is
who") and determining the potential value or danger of relationships
("who knows who") among customers, employees, vendors, and other
external forces. IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight provides immediate
and actionable information to help prevent threat, fraud, abuse,
and collusion in all industries. Version 8 provides many new features
and enhancements.
- Visualizer usability enhancements
- The user interface for the Visualizer has been enhanced to make
tasks easier and provide a more intuitive and logical user experience.
The Visualizer allows you to more easily review and disposition alerts,
find entities, view entity data, view graphs of entities and their
relationships to other entities, print reports, and perform other
entity-related tasks.
- New Entity and Alert features include:
- Enhancements to alert filtering
- Control of the canvas size used by the layout engine
- Shift+click+drag to move the canvas in the viewing area
- A Zoom slider that changes the zoom level of the graph in real
time
- Use localized date formats and sorting features to display system
dates and to sort columns according to your specific locale
- Fully enabled support for new features, including enhanced query
capabilities (Find by Attribute) and disclosed relationships.
- IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature
- The IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature enables improved
name parsing, culture classification, and name hash generation processes
of IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight by leveraging IBM Global Name Recognition
Version 4.1 technology. The improved capabilities of
the name hygiene process enable the IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight
pipelines to build better candidate lists. Generating more accurate
and robust candidate lists directly improves entity resolution.
- Using the IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature with
an IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight installation which includes IBM
Entity Analytics Solutions Name Manager provides the ability to classify
names for culture and to accurately compare and score names on the
candidate list in a culturally sensitive context. Use the configuration
console to enable the IBM Global Name Recognition Name Hasher feature.
- Expanded Service API
- The Expanded Service API updates IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight
Web services by providing an object-rich SOAP API and corresponding
UMF API of Web services operations. It also includes pipeline load
balancing functionality for Web services, which allows for pipeline
redundancy and enhanced performance.
- Event management
- IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight Event Manager is enhanced to combine
near real-time event analysis and event monitoring with entity and
relationship resolution. When enabled, Event Manager provides the
ability to track and alert you to suspicious events or events of interest,
so that you can take the appropriate action in a timely manner.
- IBM Event Manager updates
- Event Manager has been enhanced. Event Alert history is now on
the Entity Resume. The Entity Events screen shows all event data associated
with an entity, whether or not the event triggered an alert. The All
Events report is added to reflect Entity Events.
- Attribute and scoring customization
- IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight provides functional enhancements
for configuring attribute data and integrating scoring algorithms.
These changes expand the size and types of identity data that can
be compared and scored and enable the addition of new scoring algorithms
in the entity resolution process. These capabilities are generally
referred to as attribute and scoring customization. For example, you
could add identity data derived from fingerprints, retina scans, or
DNA tests and compare and score them using a scoring plugin that includes
an appropriate comparison algorithm.
- Name Manager updates
- IBM Entity Analytics Solutions Name Manager has been updated to
provide more name scoring option. IBM Global Name Recognition NameClassifier
has been replaced with IBM Global Name Recognition NameClassifier
Country of Association (NC_COA) to improve the quality of culture
classification of names.
See the product Release Notes for a complete list
of fixes and updates included in Version 8. The latest version of
the Release Notes is available on the product installation DVD and
downloadable from product Web pages at www.ibm.com.