Data Dictionary

Indiana University Improves Strategic Decision Making Across the Organization Using Data VirtualizationAs with most educational institutions, Indiana University (IU) has had a long history in business reporting and business intelligence, dating back to the days of the mainframe. Recently, the university began a new, multi-year project called the Decision Support Initiative (DSI), dedicated to helping IU improve decision making through enhanced data, models, and processes. DSI aims to improve access to data and analytic technologies, thereby providing transparency across the IU system, leading...

Data is treated truly as an asset at Guardian Life. We have created a Data Services Marketplace which contains valuable data from the underlying sources and is used by business users for day-to-day operations. In this presentation we will talk about how Data Virtualization can be used to support the marketplace with real-time data services, provision non real-time data into Hadoop, and swap underlying sources without affecting business users.