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WELCOME TO COLUMBA GLOBAL SYSTEMS

Columba Global Systems (Columba) is an Irish company built on specialist domain experience in the provision of sophisticated information technology solutions. In particular, solutions as relate to Rapid Search & Retrieve, Rapid Application Development and Expressive Objects based user interfaces. The integration of these features is represented in Columba's unique exprimer® architecture, on which the company base their Total Data Fusion solution set.


A New Generation of Intelligence Driven Applications

Columba have made it possible to 'federate' and intelligently 'fuse' a large number of data sources into a meaningful and consistent view for a range of industries, in particular, Homeland Security, eGovernment, Airline/Transportation, Health, Media, Telecommunications and Finance.

Over 80% of potentially useful data resides outside of the organisation in public domain or OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) sources and formats. These include web-based news sources, blogs, broadcasting feeds and archives, podcasts and a rapidly expanding number of sources across the web and 'hidden web' and moreover, in a variety of languages. The 'federation' and 'fusion' of the totality of this data, in combination with existing in-house or legacy systems data, delivers powerful new capabilities within an organisation, particularly those requiring a 'Single View' of the Customer, Product or Target.

Columba's approach to Intelligent Data Fusion uses both its own proprietary technology - exprimer® - as well as providing integration across the products of other specialist vendor partners within a Data Fusion Global Technology Alliance.

The approach taken enables consolidation of a universe of data within a rapid search and retrieve environment - whether the requested data is contained across silos in the organisation or permeating the universal OSINT environment - irrespective of language and format. A corner-stone of the exprimer® approach is the usage of an internationally accepted interoperability standard - ISO 23950.

Firstly, the diversity of data stored makes it extremely difficult to rapidly and accurately search for and aggregate information. Often organisations - out of necessity - require dedicated teams of analysts to acquire the required information. This activity notoriously creates bottlenecks in corporate processes and inhibits timely access - immediacy - to corporate information. exprimer acts as a powerful, flexible and user-friendly gateway to multiple information sources and diverse systems. It is a state-of-the-art, open-standards based and database-independent retrieval and update system. exprimer enables organisations to quickly and accurately find and update information stored in multiple applications and databases.
Secondly, organisations regularly face huge difficulties when integrating multiple databases with eBusiness systems that bring data to the internet or share information with other organisations. Ideally, eBusiness applications should retrieve and update data from diverse databases without exposing any data models. exprimer allows the rapid development of feature-rich, browser or java-based applications. Legacy corporate systems can be integrated with modern open-source systems and databases as required. exprimer's intuitive and easy-to-use GUI, based on expressive principles, ensures that users can efficiently and easily interrogate and transform all available data.

exprimer has applicability to numerous industry types and is especially appropriate in generic CRM applications. Check out our Downloads section for White Papers and further information.

The Columba Exprimer based Product & Services set:

  • Exprimer - Core System
  • Criminal Investigation Management System (CIMS)
  • Criminal Asset Tracking System (CATS)
  • Tax Management System
  • Airline MIS
  • Client Site Managed Services, Consulting & Specialist Application Advice
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