n-ZO in Healthcare
Consumer, payer, and provider demands for better information to guide decision making, compliance regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and complex medical data processing needs have renewed the importance of information management in the healthcare industry. IT systems especially data infrastructures in most healthcare organizations cannot scale to meet the data management needs of medical practitioners, who now require the ability to access complex and large data objects like MRI scans and other patient records over distributed networks. Furthermore, the popularity of consumer-defined health plans and increased online processing of claims and services are placing increased demands on IT Web infrastructures with a consequent need to scale and maintain a high quality of service.

The n-ZO Enterprise Information Fabric and its constituent products provide a robust data management platform that can aid healthcare IT systems in streamlining information delivery to multiple consumers, enhancing online service offerings. n-ZO's caching and data distribution mechanisms can reduce repeated access to slow backend systems for accessing large, complex patient record objects and can manage data close to the point of use. Such an infrastructure also improves data exchange between the different members of a healthcare ecosystem like payers and providers.

Benefits of n-ZO include:

• Avoids Redundant Disk and Database Access.
  n-ZO virtualizes distributed data dynamically across the hardware and software boundaries of the enterprise.
• Enables Cross-Application Collaboration.
  n-ZO increases performance by enabling distributed in-memory, cross application, data exchange via C, Java, or XML. Performance significantly increases when data is cached in-memory instead of staged in a database.
• Positions Data Close to Point of Use
  n-ZO enhances the performance of portals, applications, application servers and systems by storing data that is accessed multiple times by programs, groups of users or by a single user who is massaging the data.
• Reduce Network Load
  Caching data close to point of use prevents unnecessary re-transmission of data across the network for each user. This contributes to a reduction in network load.
• Enhances Survivability of Distributed Applications
  The distributed n-ZO cache enables applications to continue to work with data that was retrieved before a network outage.
• Turbo-charges Web Services-Based Applications
  n-ZO significantly enhances XML performance in a Web services environment. It stores XML documents in optimized cache, thus minimizing data access time and storage space in memory. This is one of the critical challenges in a Web Services implementation.
• Boosts performance and scalability for Java Applications
  n-ZO enables Java applications to access additional memory outside of their process space and thus manipulates more data.
• Enable Multiple Computers to Seamlessly Share Memory
  n-ZO can create a data-space that spans multiple computers memories. This capability can be used to allow n-ZO caches on 32 bit computers to share memory with 64 bit computers that are virtually unlimited in the amount of memory they can address. This capability can also be used to allow computers in a Grid of blade server environment to appear to have a single large memory space, instead of having a group of disjointed individual memory spaces.

n-ZO Industry Solutions
Organizations across various industries are bracing for changes that will help them increase their operational efficiency, profitability, and customer service while minimizing risk. However, data management is a significant hurdle to success. n-ZO solutions offer the necessary ingredients to help companies align information strategies with critical business initiatives. 
Learn more about how n-ZO can help address the data management needs in the following industries:

Banking & Mortgage
Capital Markets
Energy
Healthcare
Insurance
Manufacturing
Retail
Technology