Visiphor Corporation’s software and services deliver practical, rapidly-deployable solutions that integrate business processes and databases.
Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, with additional offices in Victoria, BC, Visiphor employs over 50 staff members maintaining an impressive roster of qualified and certified specialists.
The company's data integration products and services are applicable in many vertical markets such as health care, law enforcement, energy, financial services, telecommunications and government. Currently, Visiphor's technologies have been widely adopted within law enforcement in Canada and the United States. In addition, Visiphor has been an important provider of consulting integration services to several major Canadian regional health authorities, and continues to expand its offerings to the health care, energy and financial services sectors in other parts of Canada and the United States.
In law enforcement today, and in many verticals involving sensitive data, the amount of information shared between organizations is dramatically less than one might think. In Canada, for example, the RCMP and local city police forces often do not have adequate access to each others’ data. The same problem is particularly evident in the United States where information silos exist between the highly stratified nature of police and justice organizations. The issue is consistent in health care, where limited data sharing costs health authorities valuable time and money, not to mention patient well-being. Spanning multiple verticals, the efficiencies gained by data sharing solutions have proved significant in reducing crime rates, increasing national security, and improving health care, just to name a few.
There are different approaches to solving the issue of limited information sharing, the most common of which being the simple data warehousing concept. Using this approach, every distinct organization deposits all of its shared data into a central warehouse which is often controlled by a third-party administrator. Given the sensitive nature of the data, costs associated with maintaining a data warehouse and the political problems associated with giving up control of the data, the warehousing approach is falling out of favour.
With Visiphor's core technology – the Briyante Integration Environment (“BIE”) – organizations are able to successfully share information while retaining control of their data. In other words, Visiphor’s BIE is able to overcome the many significant political and technological hurdles that exist in law enforcement, health care and many other verticals where officials must remain sensitive to issues surrounding data ownership.
Ultimately, the ability to strictly control the flow of information between organizations creates a climate of trust and confidence among all users, resulting in increased levels of data sharing. Experience has also proven that the Visiphor solution can be installed quickly and cost-effectively. Finally, the Visiphor approach is unique because it adds value to the existing data source systems without requiring that any changes be made to them.
Visiphor is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
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