To get the best return on information assets, you need to be able to aggregate, connect and distribute information to targeted processes and audiences across many specialized channels - applications, websites, dashboards, alerts, etc.

The beneficiaries of aggregating information through unified information access (UIA) include every user of applications and solutions that depend on access to complex information, each of the company's managers whose staff performs these information-driven processes and who needs to control costs while also improving results, and ultimately every customer, partner and vendor who interacts with this more efficient and effective company.

UIA is based on a universal index, with which you can simplify and significantly automate information sharing, allowing you to:

• Aggregate information to expand availability

  • Information can remain stored in multiple locations - it's the index that unites it

  • Content is tagged with metadata and entities are automatically extracted and joined to data

• Deliver all relevant information for any query

  • Queries can by initiated by a user or by a process

  • New information that matches against saved queries is added automatically

• Share this well-identified content across multiple sites and web applications

The rich universal index of aggregated information also contributes to content and application creation processes with more complete access to files and stored objects. And with unencumbered access to your complete historical and current information, you are better able to support processes by supplying data for charts and other information containers that enable user drill-down.

With an index from a unified information access platform, you can use simple search queries as a central mechanism for creating web content and supplying information to critical business processes. A unified information access platform also includes:

• Management of user preferences

• Alerts about new information or calls to action

• Integrated transaction, security, subscription, user profile and/or catalog/product information

• Ability to let you tag content with metadata

When the UIA platform also includes workflow and information-triggered alerts, applications and solutions that use the platform can automate actions and ensure delivery of well-related and processed information on demand.

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