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Twister Data Server
Organizations today are coming under increasing pressure to share information more readily and to improve efficiency in business intelligence and reporting. Key to these initiatives is the ability to access data locked in disparate systems and formats enterprise-wide.
Companies also are now increasingly faced with uncovering and analyzing large quantities of unstructured information. Access to the information embedded in unstructured data—whether it is in emails, Web pages, presentations, or scanned documents—is vital when mission-critical decisions must be made. This data also must be made available quickly, regardless of its location.
By using Twister Data Server, organizations can easily access multiple data sources, regardless of the location, structure, or complexity, and use that information immediately for analysis and reporting.
Overview
Fast Implementation and Operation
Twister Data Server does away with time-consuming hand coding, physical integration, and the lag time between query and results.
Consolidated Data View
Twister Data Server facilitates business integration strategies by bringing data into a unified data model that can be written to almost any business application, including portals, reports, Web-based technologies, and analysis applications.
Clustered Design
The clustered database design makes lightning-fast queries on large datasets possible with no proprietary language to learn. In addition, its parallel-processing environment gives Twister Data Server the power to significantly increase overall database performance.
SOA Environment
Twister Data Server technology is modular by design and has developed a flexible infrastructure that allows optional use of the latest Web-service standards to enable organizations to build innovative data solutions.
Twister Data Server case study (PDF) 
Benefits of Twister Data Server
Snapshot
Lightning-fast queries on large datasets without worrying about the complexity or location of the data.
- Federated cross-domain queries
- No proprietary language to learn
- SQL queries
- JDBC/ODBC compliant
- Uses commercial tools to access data in any format
- Exposes Web services for SOA
- Works with Twister Data Framework or stands alone
Case in Point
When an organization could not query their legacy data in a single pass, they called upon SMSi to install the Twister Data Server. The client had six datasets of structured and unstructured data, all in different formats, four of which didn’t support the client’s preferred analysis and visualization tools. Within a week, SMSi personnel had diagnosed the problem and Twister Data Server was performing single-entry federated queries in the customer’s format of choice