THE CHALLENGE: INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE MAINFRAME DATA SOURCES
While your organization has vast amounts of data, it is often scattered across innumerable disparate systems. This distribution of data presents major challenges when attempting to integrate the data into a unified whole. These challenges are compounded for mainframe legacy data, which tend to be difficult and expensive to access.
One solution is to warehouse the most important data from each of these systems. Unfortunately, this process is both costly and time consuming. As well, due to the costs of the data repository, the resulting system usually limits the available data to those elements considered most important. As a result, this approach is very inflexible and has difficulty meeting the evolving needs of your business.
EII is a new market segment that specifically addresses the integration of these disparate data sources. It creates a virtual database that in theory can integrate all the disparate data. Unfortunately, the majority of tools in this segment let you down when addressing mainframe legacy data.
This is exactly where Arbutus can help.
THE SOLUTION
Arbutus specializes in accessing non-relational legacy mainframe and AS/400 data. Arbutus Integrate and Arbutus Connect are 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 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 would typically encounter.
This means that you can integrate all your mainframe data into a virtual data warehouse, without the need to actually build a 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.
Call Arbutus today, and let us show you how easy it is.
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