IBM InfoSphere Optim

Your enterprise applications allow you to manage the critical activities that keep you in business functions like order processing, inventory management, customer service and finance. To succeed, you depend on the peak performance of these applications and the databases that support them.

But runaway growth and expanding regulatory requirements can put your application databases on overload, making them harder to manage, increasing costs and keeping you from meeting service level agreements. Capacity upgrades provide relief, but only temporarily.

The IBM® Optim solutions for custom and packaged applications help companies align application data management with critical business objectives. With a single, consistent technology, you can manage, retain and control enterprise application data. Optim allows you to take command throughout the information lifecycle with the potential to deliver measurable benefits across the enterprise. Deploy IBM Optim® across applications, databases, operating systems and platforms.

Product highlights

• Segregate historical data from current transactions and safely remove it to a secure archive.


• Apply business rules to govern data retention and store data based on business value.


• Create 'right-sized' test environments and speed application deployment.


• De-identify confidential information to protect privacy in non-production environments.