How VIA Works

The silo problem
Today, your content lives in a dizzying array of places, including servers and stores inside your firewall; hosted apps out in someone else's data center; and pure cloud-based applications living in the ether.

VIA tames data sprawl by inserting a virtual content layer above all of these silos, indexing every application and content store and making the index securely available to users so they can make the right decisions at the right time.

It's called Content Virtualization and it's changing the way enterprises think about their knowledge assets.

Content Virtualization
Unlike complex systems that try to impose a structure on data 'in the wild' and impose new processes on users, content virtualization lets data stay where it naturally lives.

Content virtualization abstracts and catalogs content across all application silos into a Universal Index that simplifies and accelerates knowledge access. Content virtualization makes all your fragmented apps, and their related data silos, work together as one cohesive, content-centric system. Instead of another massive data warehouse, it leaves your data where it lives but makes it available to everyone who needs it (and is authorized to see it), at the point of decision.

The result: users get a federated content experience to simplify their jobs. And IT gets the control, agility and security they demand without having the massive overhead and logistics of a central data warehouse.



How VIA Works

• Leave your content where it is
• The content virtualization layer sits above all apps and data silos, indexing
  everything into a single Universal Index
• Pre-integrated Cross-Indexers add any SQL-based application to the
  Universal Index
• All content is federated into a single user interface
• A policy driven security infrastructure performs real-time authentication at
  the point of query
• Index-Enabled Applications optimize the value of indexed data

Pre-integrated. Plug & play. Dynamically maintained. Virtually deployed.

That's what VIA is all about.

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