Scenarios for improving efficiency

Pharmaceutical: Improving efficiency

A leading pharmaceutical company needed to include real-time data from clinical labs in its research and development reports. The company used IBM® InfoSphere DataStage® to define a transformation process for XML documents from labs. This process used SOA to expose the transformation as a web service, allowing labs to send data and receive an immediate response. Pre-clinical data is now available to scientific personnel earlier, allowing lab scientists to select which data to analyze. Only the best data is chosen, greatly improving efficiency and accuracy in clinical research.

Insurance: Validating addresses in real time

An international insurance data services company employed InfoSphere Information Server to validate and enrich property addresses by using web services. As insurance companies submit lists of addresses for underwriting, services standardize the addresses based on their rules, validate each address, match the addresses to a list of known addresses, and enrich the addresses with additional information that helps with underwriting decisions.

The project was simplified by using the standardization and matching capabilities of IBM InfoSphere QualityStage®. The company then used InfoSphere Information Services Director to publish the enriched property data to their internal website. The property data is always current and available because changes are automatically applied. The company now automates 80 percent of the process and eliminated most errors.