Information Management by William McKnight

Author:William McKnight
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780124095267
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Published: 2013-12-04T05:00:00+00:00

Pfizer and Data Virtualization

Pfizer had an “information sharing challenge” with applications that “don’t talk to each other.” They implemented data virtualization without sacrificing the architectural concepts of an information factory. Source data was left in place, yet all PharmSci data was “sourced” into a single reporting schema accessible by all front-end tools and users. The fact that data virtualization has the ability to cache data from a virtual view as a file or insert the data into a database table (via a trigger) adds significant value to the solution.

—Dr. Michael C. Linhares, Ph. D. and Research Fellow

The Pfizer head of the Business Information Systems team has a nice quote in the book “Data Virtualization” (Davis and Eve, 2011), which sums up much of data virtualization’s benefits: “With data virtualization, we have the flexibility to decide which approach is optimal for us: to allow direct access to published views, … to use caching, … or to use stored procedures to write to a separate database to further improve performance or ensure around the clock availability of the data.” Sounds like flexibility worth adding to any shop.

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