Information Portals

Reflecting the importance of using information effectively today, many organizations are building information portals. The purpose of the portal is to provide a single access point for all employees to the vast storehouse of enterprise information as required.

Creating an effective information portal requires the ability to tap into all sources of corporate information, regardless of location, data type or format.

These data sources routinely include:

• Legacy data - based on COBOL, ISAM, or proprietary database technology;
• Current data sources - including ODBC compliant, object, relational, and
• Textual information - such as JSON and XML.

Empowering Information Portals with Data Access

dbSpaces helps create viable, effective information portals by providing the ability to access, view, manage, replicate, update, query and deploy all information sources within your enterprise.

dbSpaces's powerful capabilities provide your Information Portal with the data it needs. Its comprehensive capabilities enable it to:

• Access and control data in any data source, using standards-based application interfaces;
• Create data Location Transparency so end-users can request information without knowing the data source or the physical location of the data;
• Allow real-time data access to any data source to enable fast portal response;
• Access multiple data sources simultaneously as if it were a single data source;
• Provide access to virtual views of information, allowing users to see a result set that is an aggregation of information that doesn't exist in one specific database;
• Quickly and easily create standard application interfaces to unique data sources, in order to make this information available to users;
• Provide access security, ensuring only authorized users can access and update information, and a single log on, eliminating the need for authorized users to have to enter their password for each separate data source;
• Replicate data across information portals globally;
• Transform data from a data source into another format for use by an application.

The robust functionality of dbSpaces enables you to implement an information portal:

• Without the expense and overhead involved in writing data integration code;
• Rapidly, so that you can begin delivering the benefits and power of information to your users;
• With the flexibility to add or remove data sources in a plug'n'play fashion without the delay and expense of writing code;
• Without adding to the already high stress level on your busy IT staff.

If you need to implement an information portal, dbSpaces can save you time and money, while providing the results and benefits your company needs.