Data Integration

The Challenge

How will my organization integrate and manage more data from more sources than ever before with increasing numbers of consumers and less time to react?

  • More Data – More data is being gathered more quickly than ever before, resulting in huge amounts of raw data. How will you make sure that data is processed in a timely fashion so your organization can make the right decisions?
  • More Sources – Data from a bewildering array of sources is fast becoming critical to your business. Enterprise application, social media, and real-time operational data all need to be integrated, organized, and delivered to the right people at the right time in order for your business to maintain its competitive edge.
  • More Destinations – More and more applications need to access data across the enterprise so you can analyze trends, plan for the future and optimize operations in near real time. How can you ensure that data is made available or delivered in a consistent and timely fashion? Also, how can you determine which data is being used (and by whom) and which data needs to be archived or retired?
  • Less Time to React – Even in the face of more data from more sources being consumed at more destinations, your organization needs to integrate and move data quickly so that you can stay on top. How long does a disparaging tweet take to impact your business? How about an outbound E-Mail containing trade secrets or a malfunction on an assembly line? Not long. Integrating and managing data needs to be consistent, automated, and fast.

The Alternatives

The primary alternative is building a custom data integration and management solution in-house. This can be costly and time-consuming to design and maintain. Initial deployment might include several critical data sources and destinations, rudimentary data cleansing, and possibly some archival capabilities. Key questions include:

  • “What happens when new sources of data become available?”
  • “How will you ensure that users get only the data they should be getting and how will you monitor that on an ongoing basis?”

Custom development will take time and money at each turn, and will require extensive ongoing maintenance.

Our Solution

Leveraging the powerful Informatica suite, our solution allows you to deploy quickly using best-of-breed technology, and will allow you to easily scale and add capabilities. As your data integration and management needs grow, you will be able to quickly deploy capabilities like:

  • Data migration and synchronization/replication.
  • Data quality.
  • Master Data Management (MDM).
  • Data masking and sub-setting (test data management).
  • Data archival and application retirement.
  • Complex Event Processing in near real time.

Who Benefits?

If you answer “yes” to any of these questions, ask Southport for more information:

  • Does my organization have to make business decisions based upon data in a variety of sources?
  • Do my business and IT organizations have trouble communicating what data is important to each group and why?
  • Does my organization have a consistent definition of customers and partners across all of our systems?
  • Is my test/QA data compliant and accurate—can I prove it?
  • Does my organization have dormant applications that only exist so the underlying data can be queried?
  • Is our data clean, and can we ensure that it satys clean at the entry points?

To learn more about this offering, please contact us.