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DataNovata What Is It?
What Is DataNovata?
DataNovata is a powerful software tool designed to rapidly build a software application giving access to the data within any relational database in order to satisfy any user or statutory requirements.
Using such an application a user can, for example, easily search and view invoices received for individual suppliers, invoice items, delivery notes, payment history and so on.
DataNovata uses information about the database’s structure held within the database itself in order to do this and provides many facilities for tailoring the application to take account of any further specific requirements.
A DataNovata application will therefore effectively replace the enquiry facilities of any application normally used to access this data should it need to be decommissioned for any reason.
The DataNovata built application's interface is designed with the end-user in mind. It requires no technical expertise and is specifically designed to enable easy retrieval and navigation of the data.
As the application follows logical paths and relationships of the data not necessarily utilised by the original application, it may also be a powerful forensic tool for the detection of fraud.
A Technical Viewpoint
From an IT perspective, within minutes DataNovata will generate a feature rich, web enabled application for any relational database, providing powerful, secure data retrieval and a host of facilities to tailor and control your users' access to that data.
An 'out-of-the-box' DataNovata application can be tailored to suit your precise requirements using a variety of techniques. From on-line design, through configuration parameters and simple DataNovata Scripts all the way to Java coding, the ideal application can easily be created. A fully tailored system can be ready within hours, days or weeks at most, depending on complexity.
For unstructured databases (i.e. relational databases without unique and foreign keys) DataNovata includes a Data Structure Tool that can help analyse your data and create these structures, enabling DataNovata to build the application. The tool can also be used to quickly create an application for analytical databases where defining keys within the relational database itself is unnecessary and undesirable.
In addition, if your data is in a non-relational format, NSC are expert in migration of non-relational legacy data to enable you to take advantage of DataNovata's power.
Software or Service?
NSC can either offer DataNovata as an installable software package for you to use to develop your own application, or as a service, where NSC use DataNovata to create and deliver a fully customised application to your requirements.
