Data Integration

Achieve successful, early Data Integration with X88 Pandora

There is a
better way to
make your data
fit your new application

Why should your business care about Data Integration?

Almost every major business initiative results in a new IT system. This requires taking data from existing systems which were originally designed for an entirely different purpose. Data Integration activity typically accounts for between 60% and 80% of the overall implementation effort for the new system. Incredibly, only 1 in 10 projects manage to deliver to time and budget. Overspend is typically 66% more than the budget, and a third of projects are actually cancelled long after the project deadline and budget have expired. Delays of this nature have a massive knock-on effect to project costs, however this is dwarfed by the cost of lost business opportunity.

Causes

  • Lack of understanding of the existing data due to constant business change
  • Data Integration design is a manual, paper-based task and cannot be validated
  • Lack of time in analysis and design results in many assumptions
  • Difficult to validate that the implementation matches the requirements
  • Issues are found during user testing, when remediation is at its most expensive
  • People who understand the data cannot build data integration processes
  • People who build data integration processes do not understand the data
  • Data Integration build is repeated up to 10 times due to design errors
X88 Pandora is a unique technology that automates the Data Integration design process by allowing people who understand the data to create fully working and validated prototypes of their Data Integration processes. No technical skills are required, and the result is a 100% correct detailed specification for the build team to implement, and a complete set of test data derived from the actual full-volume source data.

Using X88 Pandora ensures all Data Integration designs are right first time.

Key Benefits

  • Achieve the business objective early
  • Ensure the implementation is right-by-design
  • Design once, build once - no more iterations
  • Prove the project benefits before you implement
  • Ensure implementation matches specification
  • Complete projects at least twice as quickly
  • Ensure a higher quality result

Key Features

  • Unmatched Data Profiling performance and capabilities
  • Unique Automatic Data Relationship Discovery
  • Everything 100% accurate with 100% data volumes
  • Human specification of business rules
  • Data-driven approach to analysis and design
  • Reverse-engineers 100% accurate metadata from your data
  • Specification, execution and validation of rules in real-time
  • Extensive library of transformation functions
  • Transform data with graphical point-and-click
  • Consolidate, standardise and cleanse data
  • Build data movement prototypes
  • Automatic generation of optimal mapping specifications
  • Generate validation dataset (for UAT)
  • Secure, role-based, multi-user platform
  • Collaborative analysis, documentation and workflow
  • Linearly scalable performance on commodity hardware
  • No configuration or maintenance required
  • No technical skills required - easier than Excel
  • Everything can be used again in future projects, speeding up future implementations
  • 100% accurate design gives multiple build options - Use ETL tools, hand-coding or take the data straight out of Pandora