IBM’s Visual Warehouse (VW) is a family of products that design, load, manage, and retrieve information from data warehouses. Interactive Reporting Studio is a component for the IBM VW solution, and is resold by IBM as part of VW bundles. To further extend the capabilities of the solution, register, administer, and distribute Interactive Reporting documents (BQY file extension). in the VW Information Catalog. The Information Catalog is a repository of document information with pointers to the physical objects.
Another feature of the Catalog is that it enables you to categorize content stored in documents by specific subject area. A full-search engine in the repository enables you to search for information stored in the documents. For example, you could search on all documents associated with “sales.” In this case, the search results could yield Word files, Excel files, and Interactive Reporting documents. When you find a document that you want to work with, the IBM Information Catalog launches the appropriate application and opens the document.