Public Sector

Kyle Quass, BI Data Architect, Indiana University presents how to architect a universal semantic model - a common business definition layer that simplifies integration

In this video, Dan Young, Chief Data Architect at Indiana University, discusses how they used data virtualization to improve their decision-making across the university.

Realizing the Promise of Self-Service AnalyticsSelf-service analytics promises to liberate business users to perform analytics without the assistance of IT, and this in turn promises to free IT to focus on enhancing the infrastructure. Download this solution brief to learn more about the following:How fragmented data is seamlessly unified.How a high-maintenance data integrations are replaced by a single, low-maintenance data virtualization layer.How data delays are virtually eliminated, as data can be accessed in real time.How data integrity is preserved.How data lineage is fully traceable....

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...

How Pantex Used Data Virtualization to Share Sensitive Information Across Facilities to Maintain the Nuclear Weapons StockpileFaced with rising costs and increasing security risks, the NNSA established the Product Realization Integrated Digital Enterprise (PRIDE) program to securely deliver weapon product lifecycle information to engineers, scientists, and other users across different sites in North America. Sponsored by the NNSA, and with funding of about $30 million a year, the PRIDE program is a multi-year initiative to develop and manage a portfolio of applications. Nuclear weapon...

Two of the 27 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), nation’s medical research agency, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) joined forces to execute on a project known as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The TCGA mission is to catalog the genetic mutations responsible for cancer using genome sequencing and bioinformatics. They collaborated with the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), a collaboration of the world’s leading cancer and genomic researchers, to making the genome data available to a larger...