Information Management

Percipio is a proven solution for rapid data warehouse deployment, providing advanced data acquisition, archival, cataloging and disemination capabilities.

Overview

Percipio is an application environment especially suited to the needs of organizations that receive, catalog and maintain data. It’s e-commerce capabilities and advanced management tools allow the commercial dissemination of data and data products over intranets and wide area networks such as the Internet. Percipio provides the following:

• A data warehouse, built on common RDBMSs for UNIX and Windows environments, which accepts data from legacy systems and existing databases in real time or batch-loading. Data can be re-mapped, quality controlled, converted, cataloged, archived (on-line or off-line) and/or disseminated elsewhere in various formats, as required.
  
  
• ODBC-compliant transactional database tools permit population of the database via data loading and transfer from existing databases and other data sources (real-time, on-line or off-line).
  
  
• Web-enabled on-line analytical processing tools, including linkages to other Compusult commercial software packages such as Meta Manager and Map Manager.
  
  
• Full functionality for implementing and administering data input, storage, output and integrity.
  
  
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for modifying and generating custom user interfaces in WWW environments.
  

Capabilities

Percipio consolidates and/or catalogs data into a single repository that supports information management, cataloging, retrieval, analysis and dissemination functions. It enables querying across all data collections to identify the available information for specific ranges of parameters. Percipio provides a very powerful way of combining and extracting different types of information for site monitoring, site management, data analysis and data dissemination.

Users and clients can browse and order digital data in Percipio catalogs and data warehouses using standard World Wide Web (WWW) browsing tools. This is accomplished using PHTML, Percipio’s exclusive Web browser macro query language. PHTML also provides the ability to view current client accounts, orders and samples of data and metadata associated with the cataloged items. The delivery method, payment method, format and delivery time of ordered items can also be specified.

Percipio allows the retention of as much data on-line as required. The basic data types, data formats, archiving methods, on-line storage requirements, data conversion methods and metadata definitions are all maintained via the RDBMS. They are all user-definable and can be dynamically expanded or modified at any time.

Percipio has the ability to understand existing data and data models using reverse engineering techniques. This capability provides users with the ability to maintain existing data dictionary definitions while utilizing the Percipio application environment.
Percipio is open and modular and can be easily linked to other third-party packages, such as ArcSDE, to meet specific user requirements.

Key functionality

• a versatile data warehouse for archiving, storing and cataloging data, metadata and data products;
  
  
• a powerful and easy-to-use WWW search interface that allows users to quickly locate data and information located in the data warehouse;
  
  
• a browser interface to allow users to view samples, images and metadata associated with search results, to determine the appropriateness of the results;
  
  
• on-line ordering and delivery of data; and,
  
  
• ordering information for datasets that are cataloged, but not held, by Percipio.

Percipio is a component of Compusult’s Web Enterprise Suite; a set of Internet-based applications and toolkits that support Web mapping, information cataloging, discovery, retrieval and delivery services.

Percipio is also a contributor to the Open Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Services Interoperability initiative.