Semantic Integration
Enterprise Application Networks Require Efficient Semantic Integration Software
Without a doubt, business integration is one of the most costly and challenging tasks that enterprises face today. A typical enterprise has a multitude of legacy databases and corresponding applications. The problem of disconnected systems results from mergers, acquisitions, an abundance of "departmental" solutions, or simply the implementation of silo applications created for a specific purpose. Semantic integration allows an enterprise to integrate any application with any data at any location - without incurring the costs associated with manually reconciling and validating inconsistent data exchanged between enterprise systems. When enterprise applications need to semantically integrate and aggregate multiple data values through one infrastructure, they rely on semantic integration software from Progress Software.
Progress Software Provides the Best Semantic Integration Solution
Progress® DataXtend™ SI (Semantic Integrator) helps solve the problem of business and data integration by focusing on the business integrity of data - not just ensuring that the format of that data is correct, but ensuring that data is valid based on business rules for the users and applications that require the data. With semantic integration companies can rapidly construct and centrally manage the rules and operations you need to validate and reconcile data. Rules can then be reused to check and aggregate data across multiple data sources and destinations within integrated applications. Deploying a semantic integration engine will result in improved data quality through centrally managed, locally deployed, reusable operations, plus reduced time and cost to integrate your applications.
DataXtend Includes Design, Runtime, and Lifetime Tools for Development Environments
DataXtend SI's easy-to-use graphical design tools fit seamlessly with the development environments, application servers, and XML and J2EE standards you already use. Semantic integration technology automates and manages operations that are central to ensuring data quality:
- Transformations: Schema mapping, such as converting a product order to the telecommunications Shared Information/Data (SID) model.
- Aggregation: Merging and reconciling disparate data, such as two different birth dates associated with one customer.
- Validation: Ensuring data consistency, such as checking that the ship date precedes the received date.
- Business Rules: Enforcing business processes, such as denying shipments to delinquent accounts.
In addition to providing semantic integration solutions, Progress also provides software for data integration, data synchronization, enterprise service bus, and service-oriented architecture.
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