Smarter Water Portal

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

Miami-Dade County led the way as the first company in the world to successfully extract information from a CA IDMS network database using IBM Cognos Business Analytics. Miami-Dade County stores the majority of their critical data, such as Criminal Justice, Payroll, Traffic and Building information in CA IDMS mainframe databases and traditionally extracts this data using Computer Associates CA IDMS tools (CA ADS ADS/O and IDMS/Cobol/IDMS). Through the collaboration of CA Computer Associates, IBM, and Miami-Dade County, a driver was created for IBM Cognos to access this data directly by using Business Analytics tools without the need for exporting the data into a contemporary distributed environment.