Automating Data Processing Operations
After you have produced the XML data that your customers want - whether your expertise is in language reference, financial information, technical information or any other field - you still have to get the information quickly to your customers. Whether you print it, send it to a website or license it to customers who will use it themselves, you have a lot of work to do before you can extract value from the XML that you have produced.
IDM have developed the 'Integrations' data processing toolkit to help you at exactly this point. By automating and speeding up all the processes that you need to run, Integrations will save time for you and your Data Administrators and will ensure that your data is delivered quickly and flexibly. This will leave your existing customers happy and will open up new opportunities for you. Click here to see how Integrations works. Carry on reading to see what you can use it for.
What can 'Integrations' do for you?
Integrations can query a database, a set of files, an FTP server or a given CMS, carry out procedures on your data and ease your CMS administration tasks. For example:
- Quality Assurance (QA) tasks by Data Administrators to ensure data consistency:
- Editing operations to be launched by authors, editors or project managers through the Integrations Launcher interface
- Data delivery and licensing operations to add value to your data:
- Administration tasks to handle your data efficiently
Using Integration with your Content Management System
Integrations comes with Perl or Python API (Python API to come) to connect it to your own CMS.
Make your CMS fully benefit from the power of Integrations, enabling you to run a great variety of processes in an easy, secured and powerful environment.
Using Integrations with the IDM DPS (dictionary production system)
As well as the general use cases presented above, Integrations is designed to work seamlessly with IDM's DPS Content Management System for those customers who are producing dictionaries and lexical reference works. Integrations communicates with the DPS through its API. The implementation is easy and allows the editors to manage a powerful system, from editing to data manipulation for publishing. Here are some key cases where Integrations is the perfect working partner for the DPS
- Accessing and manipulating data stored in the DPS. The Integration SDK comes with a set of modular tools covering basic operations such as accessing the DPS data or manipulating XML,
