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Our Mission

Helping our customers deliver more value from investments in their information assets.

The Business Problem

Typically, commercial off-the-shelf - (COTS) applications such as CAD, ERP and PLM deliver generic capabilities that address 80-90% of the business requirements. The remaining10-20%, which defines what differentiates the company from its peers and competitors, have to be catered for by Custom Capabilities. Although the Custom Capabilities make up only 10-20% of the requirements, they account for over 40% of the cost.

These Custom Capabilities include:

  1. Customisations to the COTS solutions.

  2. Specialist in-house built applications

  3. Interfaces, integrations and data exchange processes between the COTS and/or the custom built applications.

  4. Ad-hoc capabilities mostly based on spreadsheets and personal databases.

Maintaining a combination of COTS and Custom Capabilities raise a number of business issues:

  1. Problems arising from the maintenance of specialist applications due to unavailability of skilled resources.

  2. Growing jungle of ad-hoc capabilities with little or no documentation and no clear ownership or relevance.

  3. The potential of data quality problems arising from the disjointedness between the COTS, specialist applications and ad-hoc capabilities.

  4. COTS applications tend to lock company data in proprietary data models, thus putting constraints on its reuse outside the application as well as affecting data longevity.

Our Value Proposition

Daista has developed the universal Integration Platform (uIP), a data integration platform that enables multiple applications to share a common database. The Daista uIP enable our customers to effectively manage their Custom Capabilities, thus delivering:

  1. Reduced cycle time and cost: Cut the cost and time of developing of bespoke applications by as much as 80%, i.e. as by much as 32% (80% of 40%) of IT budgets.

  2. Reduced cost of data quality: Remove the need for the data exchange processes and provide one point of integration thus ensuring data consistency and integrity.

  3. Management of change: The Daista uIP decouples the data from the applications, thus makes it independent of any external constraints. This gives users full control over their information assets and protects the investment they make in it.

In the News

Below are extracts describing the business issues as seen by industry.

UKCeB Seminar

 

The Journey to Data Integration, 28th September 2011, Bristol, UK

Constructing information from data held in different databases through the use of various intermediary applications does not create an integrated coherent whole.

Efforts to extract, transform and load data into neutral databases are expensive to implement and require ongoing investment to maintain corporate data as applications change. Maintenance of data quality and integrity is therefore a constant battle.

Add to this the need for data longevity where data is required to support products and services for many years; often far longer than the currency of the information system that created it. This explains why data management is a major challenge imposing a significant ongoing financial burden.

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Datamation's PLM News

PLM News September 2011

In today’s global market no business can survive without an effective information infrastructure. Every aspect of a major programme such as building a ship, aircraft, or process plant relies, in one way or another, on every stakeholder having access to the right information where, when, and in the format they want it. Yet, this is far from reality in most organisations, as information assets are scattered over a variety of disjointed systems and legacy storage media.

PLM News November 2010

To deliver fit for purpose information in a controlled and traceable way at point of use, it is necessary to remove the disjointedness between applications. This is only possible through “data integration” – the consolidation of data to form a consistent and integrated whole. Data integration is more than moving data from one application to another, or collating information from different sources and presenting them on one screen.

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