Data Integration

The idea of data integration is to make all data - regardless of its source - work together. Yet, for as simple as that sounds, IT professionals around the world will attest to the unique challenge this idea presents. The solution to this challenge is to work with a company who understands your unique data. As a market leader in laboratory informatics, LABVANTAGE is committed to pioneering data integration services and solutions that efficiently integrate laboratory data for organizations of any size.

Many years ago laboratories generated data and recorded it on tons of paper. While the sheer volume of paperwork might have seemed overwhelming, the task of integrating data from disparate sources was merely a matter of time and manpower. Today's challenge is much larger: computers and laboratory instruments generate magnitudes more data than historically possible and store them in formats that are most often completely unique.

Our Data Integration Experts Understand Your Laboratory Data Sources

LABVANTAGE is uniquely positioned to integrate laboratory data from an extensive variety of sources. Be it a laboratory information management system (LIMS), lab worksheet, instrument, electronic lab notebook (ELN), enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, material resource planning (MRP) system, or master data management (MDM) application, each source may have unique storage types and formats, such as:

• Excel worksheets and workbooks,
• flat (text) files, including complex, hierarchical, and multi-format files,
• relational databases, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, etc.,
• ODBC data sources,
• and more.

But being connected to the data source is not enough; data must be understood to be leveraged. With over 20 years of experience upon which to draw, LABVANTAGE understands your laboratory data. To find out more information about our data integration solutions, contact one of our strategic solutions specialists!

Our Data Integration Experts Understand the Language of Your Laboratory

Data profiling is probably the most overlooked aspect of implementing a successful data integration strategy. LABVANTAGE, with its long history in laboratory informatics, can analyze your data and arrive at a complete understanding of its content, structure and quality. With this understanding, we provide the tools and methods to extract, clean and conform your data - whether you plan to copy data to a data warehouse or directly present data in dashboards and scorecards.

To ensure that you're always comparing apples to apples, LABVANTAGE delivers unified terminology for all your data. Instead of defining point-to-point, source-to-target mappings and individual data naming rules, LABVANTAGE has developed a single, market-specific dictionary of terms and definitions that will rationalize field names from all data sources into a single, common vocabulary. Once rationalized, data mining tools, ad-hoc query tools, point-and-click reporting, and executive-level business intelligence solutions may each present your laboratory data in a coherent, common language.

Leveraging a World-Class Partner

Bringing together all aspects of your technical system requires highly specific competencies. Working with technology partner expressor, a leader in enterprise-class data integration software, LABVANTAGE ensures that your laboratory benefits from high-volume, low-latency data processing from a wide variety of data sources and formats. In addition, LABVANTAGE will implement your business's market-specific terminology using expressor's Semantic Types, a completely new approach to data mapping and transformation.

Solutions You Can Depend On

In addition to providing enterprise-quality consulting services, LABVANTAGE offers a comprehensive list of solutions for laboratory data integration challenges.

Laboratory Intelligence Readiness Assessment

The Laboratory Intelligence Readiness Assessment service is focused on organizations that desire to implement a laboratory intelligence program but would like expert guidance on how to do so. The service will assess an organization's readiness to implement a laboratory intelligence program, provide recommendations, and a high level project plan and resource schedule. The end result will be improved decision-making, increased profitability, higher utilization, and reduced waste and overhead.

DI Accelerator Bundle

The DI Accelerator Bundle is the first complete data integration starter kit offered for a LIMS. Designed for use with LABVANTAGE, SQL*LIMS, and DecisionScapes, the bundle will jumpstart any data integration or migration project. Included is the expressor data integration software, training for two persons, LABVANTAGE Semantic Universe, DI Workbench, and includes 1 year of support and maintenance. The bundle offers a 20% discount off of the list price.

LABVANTAGE Semantic Universe

Representing over 6 weeks of development by a certified expressor developer, the Semantic Universe allows an organization to skip all of the data architect and data stewardship work for both LABVANTAGE and SQL*LIMS database schemas. The Universe contains over 7,000 expressor metadata artifacts. These are the very same artifacts that LABVANTAGE will use to migrate SQL*LIMS customers to the upcoming LABVANTAGE 6!

DI Workbench

The DI Workbench bulk generates expressor metadata artifacts for any database schema. The Workbench automates manual tasks and completes within hours what might take weeks to accomplish. The Workbench provides heuristics for identifying semantic names using both underscore characters and natural language definitions and allows the user to add custom words and abbreviations to the internal dictionary so as to improve the identification of semantics in table and column names.

To find out more information about our data integration solutions, contact one of our strategic solutions specialists!

Key Benefits

• Converge data from separate systems and sources, widening the scope of analytical study
• Develop a common business vocabulary
• Provide executive-level summaries of operational systems
• Mine historical trends
• Forecast future performance