Composite Discovery provides the simplest and fastest way to find and explore your enterprise data, and prepare the models needed by your downstream data integration and application development processes. Discovery not only finds the data you need, but it also automatically “discovers” critical relationships across the data and generates an integrated data model. The model allows you to access and show live data, making it easier for IT professionals to validate business requirements with end users. Finally, you can refi ne the model by adding and filtering data, then transfer it to your data integration environment or other consuming applications.
Discovery lets IT and business professionals work closely together to accelerate the requirements gathering and data validation process. Simplifying this process not only speeds time to solution, but also provides confidence that the end application will meet the project’s original objective.
Key capabilities:
Discovery lets you get started quickly and easily to achieve immediate benefits. Up and running in hours and requiring minimal training, Composite Discovery lets you:
- Find structured data throughout an organization – regardless of location or source – quickly and easily using a search-like user interface. Even if data location is common knowledge, Discovery’s familiar search interface and tabular workspace simplify data examination.
- Discover relationships across data (both explicit and implicit) automatically - Relationships are the foundation of data models. Discovery reveals formal relationships such as primary and foreign key linkages within a single database, as well as informal linkages across disparate data sources.
- Refine relevant data and relationships using an easy-to-learn and use workspace - Add disparate data into the data model on the fly without coding. Filter unneeded data and rearrange relevant data into the desired model.
- Generate reusable data models - Share models across project teams.
- Validate data meets end user requirements by displaying your models in a browser or Excel - Show the user live data in a meaningful business context to assure requirements are fulfilled before starting costly development.
- Transfer model to downstream data integration tools and front-end applications - Views that require high-performance data federation could be transferred to the Composite Information Server to take advantage of query optimization capabilities before passing on to front-end applications.
Composite Discovery’s easy-to-use graphical environment and rich features help accelerate data discovery, data modeling, and requirements validation activities.
Advantages:
- Speed – Discovery accelerates the data discovery and modeling process. Users can eliminate time and effort typically employed in fi nding data and uncovering relationships necessary to build data models. Accelerating these initial steps of the project reduces overall project time.
- Accuracy – Discovery enables greater collaboration between business and IT professionals. Discovery’s ability to display live data in a report-like format allows users to easily validate requirements with greater confidence. More accurate validation at the front-end of the project reduces corrective actions in downstream steps.
- Focus – Discovery’s ease-of-use and automation reduces the need for data modeling expertise. Project team members can now focus their efforts on the core development of the business application.
- Expedient – Discovery also lets IT deliver an immediate response to the urgent business request while a formal solution is being developed. In some cases, the Discovery solution may be sufficient to fulfill the entire requirement.
