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The Integration Manager allows Ipedo XIP to transparently merge information of all kinds into a common format and structure, the critical first step of EII. It uses sophisticated data and content federation techniques, combined with XML and SQL standards, to allow multiple sources to be aggregated in a central, easily accessible location. As updates are made to information, the Ipedo Integration Manager can also share these changes with other systems in real time, instantly ensuring consistency across multiple information channels.
Information Sources
- Relational Databases – Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Ingres, Sybase
- Documents – Word, Excel, PDF
- Web Services
- Messages – MQSeries, all JMS compliant messaging formats
- XML documents and collections
- Local and Distributed Ipedo Instances
- Custom – Using the XML View development facility, custom views can be created for document management systems, LDAP directories, ERP systems and others.
Key Benefits
- Integrates information from multiple sources into a single view by using XML, SQL, and other technologies to transparently merge disparate sources.
- Ensures consistency by expressing all information in a common format, using XML as the common language to bridge disparate systems and documents.
- Allows users to access to up-to-the-minute information by providing on-demand views of different information sources.
- Validates documents for accuracy, completeness, and compliance, based on user-defined semantic criteria.
Key Features
- JDBC Views
Connects to relational databases using auto-discovery functions to determine the table structure, relationships, and indexing without user input.
- Web Services Views
Real-time queryable views of Web Services allow applications to integrate and control feeds of information, presented in a common XML format that can be simply combined with other local and remote information sources.
- XML Views
Creates virtual, real-time snapshots of information from external XML and non-XML sources presented in a standard, common XML format to simplify integration tasks in applications.
- Data and Content Federation
Aggregates information and performs lookups between disparate data sources using the XML Query language XQuery.
- Query Management and Optimization
Actively evaluates queries for performance. Federated queries over external data sources are optimized through a "capabilities based query re-writing" process. All predicates and constraints are pushed down to the back-end source to optimize execution and minimize network traffic.
- XML Rules Processing
Allows custom business rules to be applied to inbound content using application specific Java filters. Also allows standard XML processing such as transformation and filtering through XSLT and XQuery. Performs semantic checking on XML documents as well as more common syntax checking.
- Bi-Directional Update
Synchronizes data bi-directionally and in real time with any data source using XML messages transported over HTTP or JMS.
- Dynamic XML Conversion
Automatically converts unstructured document types, such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF, into XML using a converter option.
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