Underpinning the Precisely Data Integrity Suite is the Data Integrity Foundation. Precisely has launched several considerable improvements to the Foundation that will enable it to further enhance the Data Integrity Suite with new capabilities.
The Data Integrity Foundation provides the building blocks for enterprises to bring trust to their data. It provides connectors, agents, intelligence, workflows, security and administration functionality that feed into the seven modules of the Data Integrity Suite.
Any enhancements on the Foundation feed into the Suite’s modules. This means that the impact of an update to the Data Integrity Foundation is up to seven times more powerful than any single update to one of the modules.
The update includes new features such as:
- A new connector framework
- Advanced data catalogue
- Hybrid execution agents
- Workflow orchestration
- AI-driven Intelligence
- User Experience improvements
It has also launched a new Developer Portal. It will initially provide the tools and resources needed to create powerful applications using our APIs.
Chris Hall, Chief Product Officer, Precisely commented, “The advancements in the Data Integrity Foundation significantly streamline the services in the Data Integrity Suite.
“By eliminating the complexities associated with integrating, configuring, and maintaining multiple solutions, the Suite reduces costs and resource requirements, enabling data teams to focus on driving strategic analytics and AI initiatives.
“The Data Integrity Suite’s unified and accelerated user experience enables our customers to drive deeper engagement with their data and sets the stage for new and innovative approaches to business problems.”
The Precisely Data Foundation also enables enterprises to run and tune multiple AI models for different use cases. The flexibility is centrally managed to ensure that security and compliance guardrails are followed. The announcement does not clarify which AI models are supported. However, Precisely partners with AWS and offers access to the foundational models available in AWS Sagemaker.
Connector Framework
The connector frameworks provide comprehensive data and metadata connectors. These enable organisations to centrally manage and reuse any connection across all Data Integrity Suite services. The benefits are that it reduces the complexity of managing multiple connections and makes it more efficient.
Other recent improvements to connectors include support for Databricks SQL Warehouse and enhanced authentication for Snowflake connectors.
Advanced-Data Catalogue
Precisely has added an Advanced Data Catalogue which is shared by all Data Integrity Suite services. It provides a high-performance, searchable metadata repository designed to surface insights about data and monitor its health. It will also visualise data relationships, lineage, and business impact.
Hybrid execution agents
Hybrid Execution Agents securely run data integrity processes and pipelines wherever data lives. It enables customers to choose between the control of on-premises environments and the elasticity and scalability of the cloud while porting and reusing processes as data environments change.
Workflow orchestration
Workflow Orchestration enables Data Integrity Suite users to design, configure, manage, and automate tasks from one central place. Users can view and manage workflow assignments in the My Assignments panel on the home page. The Workflow page Assignments tab allows you to view a list of all assignments across your organization. It is also possible to filter them to view only the user’s workflows.
Workflow Orchestration helps reduce costs, minimise human errors, and enhance the collaboration between technical and business teams.
AI-driven Intelligence
Precisely has also enhanced the AI-driven Intelligence within the Foundation. It will now proactively detect data errors, send alerts, and automate data cleansing, validation, and business rule generation.
The Intelligence will also accelerate data integrity pipeline development by providing smart recommendations for the next steps and data enrichment options to reduce the time spent manually managing data.
User Experience Enhancements
The release also sees significant enhancements to the user experience. An example is the data quality rule reuse, precisely has reduced the time taken by 77%. Other performance enhancements in the Data Integrity Foundation will help improve performance improvements across the Suite
Precisely Data Integrity Suite Developer Portal.
The new developer portal lets developers locate the information required to get started and then work with over a dozen APIs in the Data Integrity Suite. Examples of the available APIs include:
- Address Autocomplete: Add autocomplete address search into your applications and websites.
- Address Parser: The Address Parser API parses the single line address into its components.
- Address Verification: Confirm that your customer’s mailing address exists, and that mail and packages can be delivered to it.
- Address Geocode: Enrich your address with location coordinates and vice versa.
- Data Graph: Establishes relationships between Precisely’s Geocoding, Address Fabric, Parcel Boundaries, Buildings US, Property Attributes, and World Points of Interest (POI) Premium products.
It provides a central repository for documentation, demonstrations and technical details about the available APIs
Enterprise Times: What does this mean
In providing a major update to its Data Integrity Foundation, Precisely is ensuring that its Suite of products will keep improving and delivering the outcomes that customers want. It is also attracting new customers, with Zachary Decent, data governance & quality manager, enterprise data management at UK Power Networks, commenting, “In our ongoing commitment to make data easy to discover, understand, and use reliably, we are procuring the Precisely Data Integrity Suite.
“This move signifies our dedication to fostering Data Best Practice principles, leveraging this platform to offer stakeholders an enriched experience through a comprehensive data catalogue, with clearly defined data responsibilities and robust quality monitoring mechanisms.”
For those interested in more information Precisely is holding physical and virtual events worldwide. The virtual Trust ’24 event is being held on October 15 – 16. Tune in to find out more about this update.
