FRIEND COI® (Community of Interest)
Stakeholders in bio technologies need worldwide access to the most actual and correct information for their safe and cost-saving operation.
Worldwide Cooperation Based on Open-Source Technologies
FRIEND: Short Introduction for Interested Open-Source Developers
FRIEND® (FRamework for the Integration of heterogeneous ENterprise Data) is an interdisciplinary project in the area of information systems.
The main objective of the FRIEND project is to enable System Wide Information Management (SWIM) by implementing a framework for the integration of various data managed by autonomous systems within a Community of Interest (COI).
User applications will be able to access local data in a secure and fully location-transparent way through the uniform interface of the Virtual Information Pool. The resulting system shall allow for queries spanning several user views and several local systems.
Current Situation - Physical Data Exchange
Information sharing among autonomous systems (which use different data models, different data exchange formats, different database management systems) is difficult without a consistent and system-wide concept of data integration.
FRIEND® Solution - Logical Integration of Data
In FRIEND® data are logically integrated thereby eliminating potential consistency related problems, i.e. no physical data exchange is required. Local data models are mapped to the corresponding component models (Double Arrow) which are then unified in the global data model.
User applications can rely on a standardised, object-oriented global data model of the Virtual Information Pool to access data spanning several local systems).