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Maximizing your Investment in Ab Initio with Daman's Standard Architecture
If your organization has selected Ab Initio, then it is likely that you are dealing with volume intensive applications where scalability and performance are key. Also, more than likely, the scope of your integration effort is large. Such efforts, even when well planned, can involve long and arduous data movement efforts that can quickly go over budget and take far more time than expected.
Proven Methodology. Daman's integration methodology has been honed through successful deployments at over 70 Fortune 2000 companies over the past 7 years. The methodology is focused on delivering rapid value for incremental investment and supports an iterative multi-step effort of (1) Analysis, (2) Design, (3) Build, (4) Test, (5) Deploy, and (6) Documentation and Knowledge Transfer that optimizes the use of your data integration technology to develop a complete data movement solution.
The methodology is based on design principles that allow an organization to achieve efficiencies in both development and maintenance. The resultant infrastructure and processes support key design concepts and include: Multi-user development and maintenance; Multi-project development and maintenance; Reusable components; Templatized dataflows; Configuration Management; and Metadata management.
Unique and Proprietary Standard Architecture. Daman's Standard Architecture for Ab Initio deployments is a hybrid of repeatable procedures and process, design principles and pre-built, reusable components that results in:
- A dramatic increase in efficiency in the development of data movement processes - from complex to simple, achieved in part through the use of vendor-supplied functionality and through the development of reusable components and a standardized architecture
- A dramatic decrease in maintenance and administration burden, achieved in part by using metadata to drive parameterized jobs.
Examples of available components include:
- Continuous Flow Components (to manage the extraction of live feeds of data from messaging applications)
- Paramaterized Batch 'Staging' and 'Target' Loaders
- Audit (to audit existing architecture facilities)
- Dynamic Code Generators (using the EME)
- Parsing Components (such as to provide extended XML parsing capabilities)
- Error and Exception Reporters and Handlers
- Automation Utilities
- Components that support data processing and transformation functions
Seasoned Professionals Delivering Strategic Solutions. Daman is focused on tactically delivering data integration solutions using the Ab Initio platform as well as strategically incorporating it into your enterprise IT landscape. In addition to the actual tasks necessary to deploy the platform and deliver solutions by installing, implementing and customizing the product, a critical part of our implementation services can be the development and implementation of a solution roadmap, information and technical architecture, including a strategy to facilitate the ongoing and long-term use of the Ab Initio platform.
