Solutions in a box

SmallNet provides off the shelf packages and bespoke solutions to help you solve a range of data integration and problems. Our solutions are designed with customers in mind to help meet your objectives effectively and efficiently.

IGC/WKC XLS Workbench

Provide bulk upload of XLS data glossaries, assets, policies into either IBM IGC (Infosphere Governance Catalog) or IBM WKC (Watson Knowledge catalog. The solution provides a full audit trail of the ingestion ensuring you know what data was added and when and by whom. There is a capability to ‘supplement’ the raw data with extra data elements to make IGC or WKC come alive when being used/deployed in conjunction with your systems data.

IGC to WKC Data Migration Asset

IGC is no longer being developed stand alone and an improved/enhanced solution is WKC and Smallnet have created a IGC to WKC Data Migration solution. The software provides a full audit trail of the ingestion ensuring you know what data was added and when and by whom. There is a capability to ‘supplement’ the raw data with extra data elements to make IGC or WKC come alive when being used/deployed in-conjunction with your systems data.

Governance – How to get Started

When deploying a Governance solution or project its important to know WHERE to start and WHAT to collect, analyse and deploy and NOT just load data without considering the project scope. The Smallnet methodology is a ‘user proven’ solution that maps out the steps from Day 1 through to product Roll out and live running.

Smallnet – DataStage Utilities

The Smallnet Data Stage utility enables you to automatically create a job to capture business terms and deploy the into WKC, it can read and write KAFKA messages to target systems and allows data synchronisation with virtually any data system back to DataStage….all complete with audit trails.
Uses DataStage for the integration , migration, and synchronisation of all of your IGC / WKC assets..

IGC IA/DQ (Information Analyser/Data Quality) Smarter Workload

Rather than use command lines Smallnet have created a menu based solution that allows the team to start/stop the upload of analysis, run analysis jobs at set frequencies and includes back and restore procedures.

Data or Version Migration

If you have ever embarked upon a migration you will be aware there are some key tasks to perform, and you need some documentation to support the activity. The Smallnet Migration Assistant is exactly that it creates a roadmap of your ‘AS IS’ estate and a vision of ‘TO BE’ estate and provides all the questions and documentation that you need for your internal and external teams.