THE CHALLENGE: ALLOWING TOOLS ACCESS TO ALL YOUR LEGACY DATA
As the saying goes: “garbage in, garbage out”. The quality of your data mining results are often proportional to the quality (and quantity) of the data supplied. The problem is, your data mining tools are generally limited to accessing your data warehouse. They can’t get at the vast stores of operational and other data in your legacy systems.
The reason for this is cost. The cost to access legacy systems often means that a business case is difficult to build. But the problem is, the absence of this legacy data can severely hamper, or even cripple, your data mining efforts.
Imagine if any data you wanted to access could be made available, quickly and inexpensively, directly into your data mining tools.
THE SOLUTION
Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational legacy mainframe and AS/400 data. Arbutus Connect is middleware specifically tailored to make that data accessible by Windows-based applications. The solution is simple, powerful, timely and cost-effective.
Arbutus reads virtually any mainframe data directly and presents it as a virtual relational database, almost indistinguishable from a data mart. This virtual database is instantly accessible by any Windows-based application, without any of the complexities you might expect.
This means that you can integrate all your mainframe data with your data mining tools, without the need to extend your warehouse, or incur the costs or delays.
In addition to accessing the data, Arbutus offers semantic and transformation layers that allow the implementation of virtually any data interface or business rule. You are not limited to merely exposing the data, but can actually fit it to your needs.
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