Big data continues to grow exponentially, and data management technologies are changing rapidly to meet the demands. Data storage options continually evolve with options for relational versus graph databases and hosted versus cloud, not to mention the many different data formats and query languages that come with these data stores.
Modern enterprises struggle to manage their data stores efficiently and cost-effectively, and in many cases must continue to maintain legacy systems that use older data storage technology. The problem is compounded by the need for businesses to understand and utilize the data contained in these various systems to their competitive advantage.
Uncovering the important data in these data silos requires purpose-built techniques and tools to consolidate and enable efficient and improved decision-making.
Tom Sawyer Software has spent more than three decades working with data and providing solutions that address the data silo issue.
Our mature data integration platform, Perspectives, includes data federation and data integration capabilities that combine data residing in different data sources and with different data structures to provide enterprises with real-time access to a unified view of the data.
And we don't stop there. Perspectives can reveal valuable insights through powerful visualizations and analysis.
Data federation allows for accessing and querying data from different sources as if they were stored in a single database, without physically moving or copying the data.
Data integration is the process of ingesting data from one or more external data sources into a single, unified in-memory graph model.
Having a consolidated view of data from different systems provides a single source of truth for accurate decision-making.
Using integrated data, you can apply specialized visualization and analysis techniques to expose interesting and previously unseen results.
Data consumers have a single source of truth to consult, enabling them to make mission critical decisions quickly and accurately.
Eliminating latency concerns and the need for data migration or synchronization, data can be accessed and queried in real-time to improve data agility and flexibility.
Reduce the dependency on IT teams for developing custom data integrations or moving data around.
No need to move or copy data to a central data lake or data warehouse, which can lead to consistency and accuracy issues.
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The Perspectives platform is data agnostic. It includes a comprehensive set of data integrators that can populate a model from a data source. Some integrators are a bidirectional bridge between a data source and a model, and support writing model data back to the data source.
Whether you have a traditional relational database, a schema-less graph database or RESTful API, the data federation and integration process is easy with Perspectives.
The data integration process is easy for relational databases. Follow these three simple steps, then repeat as needed.
Use the provided integrators to connect to your data source.
Use automatic schema extraction to read the structure of your data and pull out the metadata information automatically. Use the schema editor to view and manually adjust the Perspectives schema to match your application needs.
Bind the data source and the schema. This process determines how many model elements of each model element type are created in the model, and determines the values of all attributes in the model.
Repeat the steps to connect to and federate data from as many data sources as you need.
For graph databases, Perspectives supports automatic binding by default. This means you can use a query to preview the database content and then visualize the data in a drawing view without manually creating a schema and defining data bindings.
The new dynamic data integration tool in Tom Sawyer Perspectives 10.0 allows you to integrate your data in about 20 seconds. From there you can springboard from a Cypher or Gremlin-compatible database to a fully customized, interactive visualization application in only 100 seconds more!
The Neptune Gremlin integrator populates a model from an Amazon Neptune database that supports a Property Graph model. The Neptune integrator, automatically creates a Tom Sawyer Perspectives schema where the data bindings work as follows:
Element bindings correspond to:
Attribute bindings correspond to a relative path starting from the location path for element bindings.
Once your integrators are configured in Perspectives, the data is loaded into our in-memory native graph model which makes it effective and efficient to work with the data.
Perspectives makes it easy to design and configure an end-user web or desktop application that utilizes the graph model so your users can access the data in real-time. You configure easy-to-understand views of the data including graph drawings, tables, charts, timelines, maps and more. You can also incorporate powerful analytics into the resulting application so users gain even more insight into the data.
Watch this video to see how easy it is to configure a dashboard-style layout of views for your Perspectives application:
An example application created with Perspectives showing a dashboard layout with drawing, map, tree, and chart views.
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