Data Discovery and Query Builder

Does your company currently have a development framework in place that can generate informal, complex searches using common terminology? Is your ability to create improvised queries constrained by the requirement of using complicated and abstract scientific terms? IBM's Data Discovery and Query Builder software was designed to help medical providers and researchers perform complex search queries without programming knowledge or IT backgrounds. Creating searches using their own terms, clinicians are provided easy access to knowledge from data warehouses and federated databases and can extract research results in minutes, rather than months.

Data Discovery and Query Builder employs industry leading Web serving and data storage technologies such as IBM WebSphere® and IBM DB2® Universal Database™, to make time intensive, costly and complex searches easy.

Its Web–based interface allows users to formulate complex queries using Boolean logic, grouping, comparison operators and joins without requiring programming knowledge or an understanding of relational concepts. No longer burdened with the arduous task of constructing complex queries, users are afforded considerably more time to analyze and identify correlations between and within data sets, rather than manually searching through records or requiring the intervention of a database administrator.

The software offers systems administrators extensive interfaces for customizing Data Discovery and Query Builder applications, and for integrating applications with tools, such as statistical packages.

WebSphere Information Integrator provides a strategic framework to help speed new application deployment and control IT costs. It provides virtual real–time, integrated access to information–structured and unstructured, public and private, mainframe and distributed. The cornerstones of the framework include data and content federation, replication, event publishing, and enterprise search with WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind™ Edition.

Core components of Data Discovery and Query Builder applications are:

• Data Query Builder: Web presence for the end user.
• Instance of a DAM: Virtualized data warehouse that users access.
• Data Discovery and Query Builder Studio: Graphical environment that the administrator uses to create the DAM and deploy the Data Query Builder.

Additionally, IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder solution can be deployed quickly. User training is available to get your system up and running as soon as possible. The solution is designed to:

• Reduce the IT burden by allowing medical providers and researchers to conduct their own searches.
• Seamlessly integrate into existing IT infrastructures, leveraging existing database infrastructure.
• Scale to global medical enterprises because it is a Web–based application running on systems that can grow as your needs evolve.
• Require a low maintenance cost and minimal resources.

The pressure to speed drug production and move toward personalized healthcare on the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries is greater than ever. At the same time, new discoveries in genomics and the widespread use of high-throughput research technologies are producing massive amounts of data to enable the better understanding of disease. In addition, healthcare providers are being pushed to capture patient data electronically. These diverging forces all contribute to researchers' and medical providers' increasing need to gain better control of information assets and align the clinical and research environments in order to identify and understand the underlying mechanisms of disease for the transformation of healthcare.

Because Data Discovery and Query Builder provides users with the capability to construct complex queries without complex languages or user interfaces, researchers can spend more time analyzing the data and refining queries without the assistance of a database administrator.

Data Discovery and Query Builder allows medical professionals to:

• Personalize complex improvised queries.
• Quickly extract information from data warehouses or associated databases.
• Control data access and presentation based on user role.
• Collaborate via support for publicly saved queries and results, as well as the ability to restrict access via specific control lists.
• Leverage investments in existing database infrastructure.

With the IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder solution, helps users to streamline patient care with direct access to data and provide better, faster patient care at a lower cost. This allows clients to:

• Reduce holdups and save IT resources by allowing clinicians direct access to search and analyze information to meet their needs when they need it.
• Improve medical providers productivity with timesaving and convenient reporting features.
• Maximize the value of critical medical information by providing medical providers and researchers with quick access to data.
• Streamline the process for providing auditors with documented evidence from analytical reports.

With the healthcare and life sciences industry in transition, your IT resources are overloaded. Internal and external pressure to capture patient data and new genomics discoveries with high-throughput research technologies are producing massive amounts of data. The IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder solution can help ease your load by allowing providers and researchers direct access to data without requiring programming knowledge.

To meet these challenges, the IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder solution for healthcare and life sciences:

• Features a Web-based, customizable user interface.
• Combines text keyword searches of unstructured data with the power of a relational database query of structured data.
• Quickly extracts knowledge from data warehouses or associated databases.
• Provides data search results in minutes instead of months.
• Supports complex query construction.
• Allows users to save and classify searches and search results for private or collaborative reuse.
• Leverages existing database infrastructure.