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SMSi’s Twister Data Framework

May 2, 2011 By RyanKamauff

If you’re interested in data management, servers and integration, check out the Twister booth in the Carahsoft Partner Pavilion on the expo floor here at DoDIIS. Twister enables ingestion of disparate data sources to provide a searchable, extractable, and highly usable data layer to bring information from across the enterprise, to users throughout it. Twister offers LDAP integration to identify users – and define roles and access.

Twister offers the ability to read and write Oracle, SQL, MySQL and other such databases. It can ingest structured data as well unstructured data – providing the capability to process XML, CSV, PDF, DOC and HTML (among others).

The Twister Data Integration layer sits between your choice of databases and your choice of extraction, search or discovery tools. Providing source and extraction agnostic data integration services enables installation on any system – saving administration from forklift upgrades.

As data sources grow, and gigabytes turn into petabytes, scalable data integration solutions are key to mission success. Pulling in multiple data sources and types, Twister spits them out into clean, usable data for extraction, analysis and aggregation.

Please check out Twister at booth: 831
Or their website HTTP://www.sms-fed.com

Filed Under: Analysis, Big Data Tagged With: data integration, data services, Data Warehousing, database, DOC, DoDIIS, dww11, HTML, LDAP, MySQL, smsi, SQL, twister, web services, XML

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