Slides from the July 2015 Entrinsik webinar, "Unlock the value of your data by smashing data silos"

1. Unlock the Value of Your Data
by Smashing Data Silos
Tim Nicholson
Director of Informer Services
tim@entrinsik.com
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Who is Entrinsik?
• Entrinsik has been developing, implementing, and supporting
information management solutions since 1984.
• Informer introduced in 2001 and is used daily by over 1,500
organizations worldwide in various industries.
• 1,500+ customers; 35 VAR / OEM Partners
• Customers include:
– US Navy
– 350+ universities and colleges
– USAA, BB&T, MMA
– State of Connecticut
– Emergency Response Management in Mexico and USA
• Consistently high customer satisfaction

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What is Informer?
• 100% web-based reporting, analysis and dashboard solution.
• One intuitive reporting platform
for multiple databases (U2, SQL, D3).
• Allows non-IT users to quickly customize
and create their own reports on the fly.
• Uncovers insights in real time as information changes to make
informed business decisions.
• Quick and easy implementation.
• Immediate return on investment.

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Data silos
• Exponential growth in data
• Data silos were created out of necessity in order to solve speific business
challenges
• Legacy systems weren't built with information integration in mind
• Data silos occur whenever data systems are incompatible or not
integrated with other data systems

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Silos are everywhere
• According to a CompTIA survey:
– 8 in 10 organizations report high or moderate degrees of
data silos - collections of data that have grown across the
organization or within specific departments which are not
connected in a cohesive plan.
– Only 31% report being able to provide a comprehensive
single view, meaning potentially valuable customer data
points are not fully integrated.

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Challenges caused by data silos
• Incomplete information
• Limits productivity
• Stifles creativity
• Hampers innovation
• Inhibits collaboration
• Wasted time that could be spent in other areas of the business.
• Internal confusion over priorities.
• Inefficient or slow decision-making and a lack of agility.
• Inability to effectively assess staff performance.
• Lost sales and reduced margins due to operational inefficiencies.

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Benefits of crossing silos
• Make data-driven decisions
• Improved visibility into data
• Leverage existing information
• Improve agility - respond to market changes
faster
• Reduce costs by improving productivity

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How to bridge the gaps
• Focus on the most critical business functional areas that
have silo’d data
• Create an easy to manage metadata layer
• Ensure tight security to control access to all data assets
• Enable report results to be published and shared via portals,
dashboards
• Extract fresh data from each source
• Enable business users to customize data views on the fly

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Informer can help…
1. Self-service, easy-to-use interface
2. Easily blend data from multiple sources
3. Analyze results on the fly
4. Easy to set up and configure
5. Controlled data access

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Public Safety Joint Communications (PSJC)
• PSJC’s CAD system is built on a UniData database and is the largest
and most detailed database in use by the agency.
• There are also many SQL databases and a few Access databases in
use throughout various agencies and departments.
• These databases contain important information needed by
employees, and users.
• With Informer they now can access a reporting system that
generates customizable reports that simultaneously combines data
from multiple databases into one report.

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Informer DEMO

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Questions?