IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

What's new in Version 8

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.



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Last updated: 2011