Data Intensive Industries - The Problem
Certain industries rely heavily on data, particularly customer data. Examples include the airline, e-Government, security, logistics, and finance industries. Typically, the data held in these organizations is spread across multiple, heterogeneous databases. This gives rise to two problems.

 » Firstly, the diversity of data stores makes it difficult to rapidly and accurately search for and aggregate information. Often companies have teams of analysts writing reports to retrieve the information. These cause bottlenecks in corporate processes and prevent timely access to corporate information.

 » Secondly, companies face difficulties integrating multiple databases with eBusiness systems that can bring the data to the Internet. Ideally, they would like to allow their eBusiness applications to retrieve and update data from diverse databases without exposing any of the data models.

exprimer was primarily designed to solve these problems. It enables organizations to rapidly and accurately find and persist information stored in multiple databases and demonstrates a sophisticated, highly evolved search and retrieval capability for corporate information/knowledge.

exprimer provides retrieval and update engines that abstract the data models and lets organizations transparently integrate their corporate databases with modern e-Business systems. It has an intuitive and easy-to-use client built on expressive principles that lets users manage the information in their databases in an efficient and effective manner. It is fully based on open standards: J2EE for the application server, CORBA for the data gateway, ISO 23950 for data retrieval and update, XML and XSL for presentation of the data, and SOAP, UDDI and WSDL for Web Services.