Rich Data Integration Empowers Semantic Search

August 29, 2013

An author of a recent post on data integration shared his perspective on the unsung heroes of enterprise IT in his Informatica article “Data Integration and Enterprise Success, A Winning Combination.” Storing, processing, analyzing and sharing data with those who need it in real time is a challenge for many companies as they aim to match their knowledge management process with their business process.

The article discusses an organization recognized with the Ventana Research Leadership Award, awarded to a company that has achieved excellence with Informatica technology. UMASS Memorial Health Care is a recipient who undertook the Cornerstone initiative to transform the way data is used across its medical center, four community hospitals, more than 60 outpatient clinics, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

According to the article:

UMASS Memorial Health Care used Informatica to establish a data integration and data quality initiative to incorporate data from its clinical, financial and administrative sources and targets.  Using the Informatica technology, they are able to place volatility into the domain of the integration technology, in this case, Informatica.  This allows the integration administrator to add or delete systems as needed, and brings the concept of agility to a rapidly growing hospital system.

Data integration is a key step in the process towards enabling the true power behind semantic search. For this reason, it is a clever move to implement business intelligence solutions that can draw from a myriad of content types and source applications — like Cogito from Expert System.

Megan Feil, August 29, 2013

Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search

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