Product architecture
IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight is a multi-tier system, in which data from data sources is loaded into the system from acquisition programs and processed by the pipelines that are hosted by pipeline nodes. The results of the processing are written to the entity database and can be routed to other systems or other databases.
In a typical deployment, enterprise data from multiple data sources is sent to acquisition programs, where the data is transformed into Universal Messaging Format (UMF). Each acquisition program uses a transport to send the data into one or more pipelines. Many of these transports are bi-directional, and the system can be configured to provide the acquisition program with responses.
One or more pipeline processes run on pipeline nodes. Each pipeline maintains its own connection to the entity database. As the pipeline receives the UMF data from one or more acquisition programs, it processes the data record-by-record through its three core processes: recognize, resolve, and relate. As each record is processed, the pipeline stores the results of the processing in the entity database.
- Configuration Console, which is used to configure and monitor the system
- Analyst Toolkit applications, which can be used to analyze and disposition alerts, explore relationships, perform searches, and generate reports
- Command line interfaces, which are used to run pipelines
- Web services, which can be used to run the pipelines or integrate the product with other enterprise systems, including customized user interfaces
IBM InfoSphere Identity Insight uses IBM WebSphere Liberty. This application server hosts the Configuration Console, Analyst Toolkit elements, and the Web services.
This robust architecture provides scalability for any deployment. Pipelines can be deployed on any number of small or large machines. Pipeline performance can scale to any desired level, given enough database capacity.