EIQ Products combine technologies from these conventional approaches as dataless hybrids, retaining most of the advantages and overcoming most of the disadvantages of each.

EIQ products use indexing and query processing layers that are external to data sources to solve "dirty" data, data access and data integration problems faced by most organizations.  These layers absorb the heavy load of indexing and query processing, and leave data in its source.  Indexes are built and maintained using cleansed, transformed and standardized data, enabling highly successful queries that isolate pointers to results data in data sources.  Raw results data is read from data sources, cleansed, transformed, standardized and formatted for the calling application or middleware.

It's All About Data

The problems with data that most organizations face is that they are awash with it and it is rarely available in a useable form.  All data integration, sharing and interoperability approaches address these problems to a greater or lesser (zero) 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 structures.  And unlike other approaches, EIQ Products address all of the above data issues.

EIQ Products provide the real alternative to conventional approaches to data 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.