Improving Data Integrity for Analysis
Summary
The Minneapolis firm Colectica recently completed a project resulting from their third SBIR grant through the National Institute of Health (NIH). Colectica was spun out of Algenta Technologies, a software company that delivered a variety of services that included DNS Hosting, custom development projects, and a series of contracts with the University of Minnesota Computer Science Department. The data that moves through this life cycle is stored in a repository, which is essentially a version control system for metadata and relationships. Market research firms, which have traditionally conducted one-off projects like opinion polls, generally did not concentrate on documentation and standards. As more organizations turn to Open Standards to make sense of huge amounts of data for analysis, Colectica is well positioned to continue building out their solution through a secure and structured platform.