Okana SENSE™ Connector

Autonomy’s comprehensive range of connector products provides information connectivity to over 400 different information repositories.

The Okana SENSE™ Connector augments these by catering for specialist scenarios where there needs to be some additional handshaking, complex index manipulation or other dependency which necessitates specific programmatic control. SENSE Connector can also be used to normalise data formats where a common application schema may be required, for example by our SENSE Archive product.

Specifically, Okana's SENSE Connector can deal with any of the following scenarios :-

• Connecting to RDBMS content which must be synchronised to a transactional level with IDOL Server (two-way handshaking and control).


• Connecting to RDBMS content which must be published to IDOL Server with the lowest possibly latency (similar to a push model).


• Connecting to one or more content sources which require complex and normalised transformation prior to indexing into IDOL Server. This typically occurs when some form of normalisation is needed as is the case with historic data archives. SENSE Connector uses a plug-in DLL model to allow for complex data transformations and physical underlying formats. The advantage of this model is that all transformation can take place as close to the original data source as possible, prior to output into XML or IDX, thus reducing WAN traffic.


• Transforming any incoming data to the same underlying data schema in use by a SENSE Framework-powered application. This model allows the application to stay agnostic to any changes in underlying data repositories by applying schema mapping at the Connector layer.

Okana’s SENSE Connector is currently available as a stand-alone product for MS Windows Platforms. Other platforms are available on request.