LSI (Link Support Information) Designer

When creating analysis applications, it is cumbersome and inefficient to design, revise and maintain analysis mechanisms and solutions when using the nomenclature of the physical layer. Names of data tables, fields, schema and other data elements are unfriendly for IT personnel to work with and meaningless to analysts. The purpose of the LSI designer is to provide semantic and logical layers that can be easily used by SN-Sphere and other applications to build solutions. The LSI Designer allows definitions for three types of information for each application:

Database Definitions

Every table used in an application is defined as containing a particular type of data (LSI, entity, PreStar™, etc.). Tables and fields can be assigned descriptive labels which are seen by users in all other interfaces of SN-Sphere.

Entity Definitions

Each entity which is part of an application is defined including the tables and fields which contain the attributes of the entity, entity identifier, definitions used by the PreStar™ server and more.

LSI Definitions

Each source of link support information is specifically defined. For instance, information on ownership of vehicles. Definitions would include the name of the table in which the information is stored, identifier of the person (such as social security number or driver license), identifier of the vehicle (such as registration number), definitions used by PreStar™ and additional qualifiers such as date of ownership.