Integration Composer overview

Integration Composer is an integration tool that imports hardware and software inventory data from external data sources into the Maximo® database tables for deployed assets and configuration items. With Integration Composer, an enterprise can aggregate data collected by discovery tools and integrate it, creating a central repository for enterprise IT asset management, reporting, and decision support.

Before you import data from an external data source into the Maximo target database, you use Integration Composer to create a mapping to transform data from the source format to the target format. A mapping is a set of expressions that tell Integration Composer how to create data in the target using information from a source. For each property that you want to import, you define an expression that specifies how to transform the data for that property when Integration Composer imports the data from the source into the target. When you execute a mapping, Integration Composer transforms the collected data and imports it into the target.

When you first implement IT asset management, you can also use Integration Composer's asset initialization adapter to create a baseline set of authorized IT asset records from the deployed asset data that you imported. Authorized IT asset data is managed in the Assets application.

Integration Composer connects to data sources using either Java™ Database Connectivity (JDBC) technology-enabled drivers or an application programming interface (API).