Data Management Strategies for the CIOData quality
Gold Award:
Silver Creek Systems DataLens System Version 5.1
Our judges were impressed by the innovative approach of our Gold winner in the data quality category, Silver Creek Systems' DataLens System Version 5.1. The product uses semantic-based technology for an approach to data quality known as "data mastering." Silver Creek says its approach enables the product to take unstructured, nonstandard data across a wide number of categories, formats and languages and deliver complete, consistent, high quality, usable data in real time – otherwise known as data mastering.
The DataLens System, released in September 2008, uses semantic-based technology to perform real-time, automated data mastering services to standardize, validate, match and repurpose data as a plug-in to existing systems or processes. Semantic-based techniques are used to recognize and standardize data, irrespective of format or source, and return the data in a format compliant with enterprise data standards, including those defined by a master data management (MDM) strategy. According to its nomination form, the core difference between the DataLens System and traditional approaches to data quality is that the DataLens System uses semantic-based technology to evaluate incoming data, classify it and recognize its meaning in context. Silver Creek says this approach has been shown to be faster, cheaper, more scalable and more tolerant of variable data than traditional data integration and data quality methods.
The DataLens System is made up of three basic components: the DataLens Knowledge Studio, where the semantic rules are maintained; the DataLens Application Studio, where the exception management and application logic is maintained; and the DataLens Governance Studio, where data stewards can monitor quality trends and system effectiveness. Its core capabilities are semantic recognition, standardization, enrichment, classification, matching, translation, validation, remediation, repurposing and governance. Silver Creek says the DataLens System is fast and highly scalable, primarily because it operates as an in-memory process and therefore scales directly with hardware processor cores and memory.
Pricing is based mainly on the number of servers and clients, and starts around $100,000, depending on specific uses and configurations. Term, rental and other license options are available, depending on requirements. More information is available from Silver Creek Systems.