From Disparate Data to Meaningful Building Blocks of Knowledge
Beyond search, Exalead CloudView 360™ uses advanced semantic technologies to transform heterogeneous corporate data into pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, comprehensive decision intelligence applications.
This revolutionary approach solves many of today's most pressing IT challenges:
IDC
"Most of the digital universe will remain unstructured – meaning tools and techniques will be required to add structure to this content to improve search, discovery, management, security, and storage"
– IDC, The Expanding Digital Universe
IT Challenges Addressed
- Compartmentalized, incomplete corporate knowledge
- Inefficiencies due to unsuccessful searching and work duplication
- Data volumes that are outpacing data management tools
- Expensive, slow integration of enterprise applications
- Under-utilization or non-use of important external knowledge resources (e.g., the Web)
In efficiently addressing these challenges, CloudView 360 Edition provides an immediate ROI:
The CloudView 360 Solution
- Provides a structured, 360° view of both unstructured and structured corporate data for better decision-making
- Boosts efficiency through more successful searching and real-time, unified data access
- Boosts productivity through democratisation of information access
- Eases burdens on existing systems so information access capabilities can scale as user and data volumes escalate
- Provides the benefits of application integration without touching underlying applications
- Adds value to corporate information assets by enriching them with data from public resources
- Improves agility and lowers costs by enabling the rapid development of decision intelligence applications
CloudView 360 Architecture
- Revolutionizes decision-making
- Fuels new competitive insights
- Enhances productivity and efficiency
- Greatly increases IT agility
- Lowers overall IS costs
CloudView 360 is structured as an open, SOA implementation of a BIMS (Business Items Management System) architecture, the ideal framework for leveraging voluminous information assets from disparate, heterogeneous resources. CloudView provides an extended implementation of the four essential BIMS functions:
- data collection,
- data transformation (from disconnected, discrete data to meaningful, contextualized Business Items, or BIs),
- BI access and management (storage, indexing, query processing, updating) and
- BI interaction (mechanisms enabling BI search as well as the construction of applications exploiting BIs).
