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Index and
Query (EIQ) Products™ solve most data access, integration, sharing and
interoperability challenges in an innovative and unique way.
EIQ Products are
basically adapters that
build and maintain their own indexes, and process standard query
language (SQL) queries across multiple, disparate and
distributed structured, unstructured and semi-structured data
sources. Data remains in data sources, and is read,
cleansed, transformed and standardized to build and maintain
indexes in near-real-time. SQL queries against the indexes
are highly successful and fast because of the quality of the
indexes, and the processing load is absorbed by EIQ Products;
not the data source systems. Results data are read from
data sources and put through the same data quality processes as
indexes or inverted from indexes, merged with other data source
results and
provided to third-party calling applications/middleware.
EIQ Products
access data sources through available drivers/APIs and query
languages - and are,
in-turn, accessed through standard drivers or Web services and SQL
or XML. |
EIQ Products combine technologies from
the conventional approaches of data warehousing, federated
adapters and enterprise search. EIQ Products
are dataless hybrids that retain most of the advantages and
overcoming most of the disadvantages of conventional approaches.
To learn more about the advantages and disadvantages of the
conventional approaches, and their comparison with EIQ Products,
see the links to the right. Or,
read an article published by Information Management (also
linked in the Articles
section).
Other products may
superficially sound like they do what EIQ Products do,
but they do not.
It's All About Data
 | Accessing it -
indexes and queries |
 | Securing and protecting
it - including across organizations |
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Making it useful - cleansing, transforming and
standardizing |
 | Distilling it -
aggregations and calculations |
 | Making sense of it
- context, categorization and semantics |
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Connecting it to other data - obvious/direct and
non-obvious/indirect relationships |
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Alerting/notifying those who need to know -
watch-lists, event-triggers, subscriptions and thresholds |
The problem with
data that most organizations face is that they are awash with it
and it is rarely available in a useable form. All data
access, integration, sharing and interoperability approaches attempt to address
these problems to a greater or lesser extent.
EIQ Products power
the best-of-all-worlds solutions by leaving data where it is,
but provide queryable metadata layers that work with original data sources
and data source schemas and formats. And, unlike other approaches, EIQ Products address
all of the above-listed data issues.
EIQ Products
provide the real
alternative to conventional approaches for data access, integration, sharing and
interoperability across multiple, disparate data sources with
higher success, and lower complexity, implementation time and
cost. This
provides real value for business intelligence (BI), analytics,
marketing, customer data integration (CDI), master data
management (MDM) and other data-centric solutions.
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Learn more about:
The
advantages and disadvantages of data warehouses
The advantages and
disadvantages of conventional federated adapters
28-point
comparison of data integration technologies, including EIQ Products
It's a
CONTROL issue!
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