Lee presented the concept to VMark executives on June 6, 1996 along with a detailed requirements specification and a high-level architecture, and it was immediately approved. He worked with 5 key developers in the Milton Keynes, UK office of VMark, Len Greenwood, Neville Myatt, Peter Williams, Ewan Paton, with Ian Thody managing. Early alpha versions were shown to a variety of customers in October and November that year. DataStage was announced on November 18 of 1996 and first presented to the public in a demonstration at a DB Expo in December 1996. The first formal beta version was shipped in November, and the first GA version was shipped to the first paying customer, Eurotunnel, in January 1997. VMark started shipping DataStage on January 20 of 1997.
ETL solution : It supports the collection, integration and transformation of large volumes of data where the data structures could range from simple to highly complex. Once can process real-time data or data received on a periodic or scheduled basis.
Scalable : High-performance processing of massive large scale data volumes can be done by leveraging the parallel processing capabilities of multiprocessor hardware platforms.
Hetergenous Data Support Various data sources such as text files, complex data structures in XML, ERP systems (SAP and PeopleSoft) and almost any database (including partitioned databases), web services and business intelligence tools like SAS are supported.
Real-time data integration support: IBM WebSphere Information Services Director provides a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for publishing data integration logic as shared services which can be reused across the organization. These services supports high-speed, high volume data and are highly reliability for transactional processing / batch processing.
Connectivity across data source : It connects across a wider range of data sources and applications and thus used by the most popular enterprise application such as SAP, Siebel, Oracle, and PeopleSoft.
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