The Institute for Information Industry employs a security-rich infrastructure to protect the privacy of genetic information

Validated on 11 Mar 2013

"The IBM solution offered the flexibility and scalability we need to quickly adapt to changing project requirements and parameters." - Belinda Chen, Ph.D., Institute for Information Industry

Customer:
Institute for Information Industry (III)

Industry:
Government

Deployment country:
Taiwan

Solution:
Business Integration, Business Process Management (BPM), Enabling Business Flexibility, Express, Openness, Service Oriented Architecture, Smarter Planet, Systems & Network Management

Smarter Planet:
Smarter Government

The Institute for Information Industry (III) is the government agency dedicated to supporting the development of the IT industry in Taiwan. It has six research and development (R&D) laboratories, which are focused on information systems, network and communications, multimedia technologies, embedded systems and e-commerce.

Business need:
Engaged to provide the IT infrastructure for a genetic database project, the Institute for Information Industry (III) encountered a number of problems. The project require­ments were neither clear nor determined, and a government regulation regarding privacy and genetic information had yet to be finalized. III sought a scalable IT system with the flexibility to meet its current and future needs.

Solution:
IBM Business Partner Tung-I Information Service Co. implemented the IBM Life Sciences Clinical Genomics Solution, an integrated architecture that facilitates the identification and understanding of the molecular basis of disease.

Benefits:
Provides the flexibility and extendability needed to adapt to evolving user and expansion requirements; reduces development time by approximately 40 percent; delivers the first and second phases of the genetic database project within a tight timeframe

IBM products and services that were used in this case study.

Hardware:
System p: System p5 520Q Express - AIX 5L Edition

Software:
WebSphere Process Server, DB2 Enterprise 9, Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition

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