Solutions Support
Supporting Data Driven Industries
The i3 technology was designed to support industries where data sharing across organizational structures is critical to success. What sets i3 apart is its purposeful design to support these federated operating environments—settings where multiple independent internal and external groups must collaborate while maintaining organizational autonomy.
For example, city governments consist of various independent departments—such as transportation, utilities, and public safety—that must coordinate efforts to serve citizens. Similarly, large multinational corporations often operate as autonomous units organized by product line or geography. Even ecosystems of independent companies that jointly serve a shared customer represent federated environments where data exchange is a critical success factor.
In all these cases, an effective information infrastructure is essential for driving results. i3 helps these organizations make better use of their data, improving operational efficiency and enabling better outcomes. By managing the flow of information, i3 increases data reuse and streamlines processes—resulting in a stronger return on the organization’s data investments.
Research shows that top-performing organizations treat information as a strategic asset and competitive differentiator. They avoid treating data as ab application consumable and actively manage these assets across the enterprise. Many companies continue to struggle with this shift due to a lack of tools for managing and governing information assets. i3 fills this gap by providing the technology needed to securely and efficiently manage organizational data.
The i3-core provides a framework that allows communities to manage data flows across organizational boundaries—using commmon data assets to serve customers and pursue new opportunities. This exchanged data becomes a powerful enabler of cross-functional collaboration and operational coordination.
Because these ecosystems operate in fast-changing markets, i3 also provides the flexibility and autonomy required for information exchanges to evolve with shifting policies, procedures, and business needs. In today’s dynamic environment, inter-organizational information curation and governance systems like i3 are essential for managing data flows that change as quickly as the market itself.
Healthcare
Transforming Healthcare Through Connected Wellness Communities
The healthcare ecosystem consists of a large number of indepedent companies, labs, practicioners, and service organizations that must work together for the patient’s benefit. In this environment, medical data, which is created by healthcare professionals is regulated but health data which is generated by consumers does not have the same stringent requirements. Improved healthcare outcomes can be achived by using both medical and healthcare data but in practice, this rarely happens because of the siloed nature of the data.
i3 introduces a new approach—one that enables the creation of fully connected wellness communities. It allows established healthcare providers to onloard wellness data and use it to supplement their HIPAA regulated data environment. For example, health data collected from consumer wellness products could be made available to patient-approved physicians. Further, pharmaceutical companies could use i3 to access research data under the oversight of a virtualized Institutional Review Board (IRB), ensuring compliance and ethical standards.
Thanks to the dynamic nature of the i3 data fabric, healthcare professionals gain the flexibility to activate data flows that support individuals, institutions, or entire communities—enabling more responsive, data-driven care and collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem.
Retail/Hospitality
Creating Exceptional Consumer Experiences Through Shared Insights
Shopping, dining, and entertainment have evolved beyond simply purchasing a product or service—they’re now centered around providing the customer a more complete overall experience. The internet has expanded consumer choices so that decision making processes are much more comprehensive. As a result, the customer’s buying decision is increasingly influenced by the quality of the experience, not just the offering itself.
While stores and restaurants can control the environment within their walls, the customer experience begins long before a visitor steps through the door. To build lasting excitement and loyalty, businesses must understand the full customer journey—from initial interest to post-visit engagement. This requires merchants have access to external information that helps them shape the consumer experience before, during, and after the customer’s purchasing event.
Forward-thinking retailers need timely and relevant data to support both short- and long-term strategies. i3 Systems enables this and can work with shopping centers, business improvement districts, and merchant associations to create purchasing environments for customers. These environments allow retail and hospitality businesses to share and access information in a secure, managed way—leading to more personalized, impactful customer experiences.
Smart Government
Enabling Smarter, More Connected Government
Government agencies are typically organized into specialized departments, with each department being focused on fulfilling a specific mandate to serve the public. While this structure supports operational efficiency within departments, it often creates barriers to information sharing across departments, cities, and counties. Without this broader, cross-jurisdictional perspective, opportunities to improve efficiency or enhance quality of life may go unrealized.
i3 Systems addresses this challenge by providing a secure data fabric that enables approved information to be shared across operational entities in a controlled and managed way. This same infrastructure also facilitates communication between cities and the citizens or businesses they serve, enhancing responsiveness and community engagement.
Recent events—such as pandemics, wildfires, floods, and earthquakes—have shown the critical need for coordinated responses that span jurisdictions. These types of crises require seamless cooperation among multiple government agencies, which is only possible through timely, reliable information exchange.
i3 Systems delivers the data infrastructure needed to support such interactions. Whether facilitating emergency response or enabling next-generation services in smart cities, i3 provides the foundation for effective, data-driven governance.
Smart Manufacturing
The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Intelligent, Connected Manufacturing
The industrial age ushered in factories and assembly lines that enabled machines to boost productivity threeby fueling unprecedented economic growth. Today, experts predict that manufacturing is on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution—a transformation that promises to create even greater opportunities. In this new era, manufacturing equipment becomes not only smarter but networked. These systems will be capable of rapid adaptation, allowing production lines to pivot in real time to meet shifting demands. This emerging revolution is not just about smarter machines—it’s about fully integrated manufacturing systems.
Workstations along the production lines will operate in harmony with a company’s broader business information systems. The flow of raw materials into factories and the delivery of finished products will be optimized for efficiency and linked dynamically to real-time demand. Supply chain partners—including distributors, logistics providers, and subcontractors—will use this shared data to better coordinate their roles within the ecosystem.
This tightly managed environment will enable manufacturers to shift from traditional high-volume, repetitive production to on-demand manufacturing—without sacrificing the economic benefits historically tied to scale. It’s a shift that redefines industrial productivity and positions manufacturers to thrive in an increasingly dynamic global market.
Smart Agriculture
Empowering Small Farms Through Information Collaboration
The agricultural industry has been steadily shifting toward consolidation, with large farms acquiring smaller ones to achieve the scale needed to afford high-end products and services that rely on volume. Discussions about big agriculture often highlight advanced technologies applied to harvesters, tractors, and other farming equipment. However, the critical role of information is frequently overlooked—even though data and analytics have become as essential to modern farming as traditional tools like the shovel. In the world of agriculture, efforts to increase access to data provide benefits that are needed to run a cost efficient agricultural business.
i3’s data fabric technology gives small and medium-sized farms the ability to level the playing field. By forming information collaboratives, these farms can pool data and insights to create shared resources that enhance their competitiveness. In many ways, these systems function like the community grain silos of the past—shared infrastructure that empowered local farmers to thrive in the face of growing pressure from large-scale operations. With i3, small and medium sized farms gain the data and tools needed to harness data collectively, opening the door to smarter decisions, improved efficiency, and sustainable growth in an industry increasingly dominated by giants.
Smart Oil and Gas
Fueling Efficiency in Oil, Gas, and the Future of Energy
Oil and gas companies extract natural resources and transform them—through a series of complex processes—into the fuels that power modern life. The processing facilities involved in this conversion represent massive, fixed-location infrastructure investments. To maximize the return on these investments, companies must operate them at peak efficiency—even when the raw materials must be sourced from remote or distant locations. To achieve this, oil and gas companies maintain global exploration teams in constant search of new resource deposits. Once discovered, a complex network of ecosystem partners is engaged to extract and transport these materials to centralized processing plants. After refinement, an equally intricate distribution network delivers the final products to market.
i3’s active data fabric plays a critical role in optimizing this entire chain of partners working to meet market demands. By enabling seamless information flow between all partners—from exploration to distribution—i3 enhances coordination, adaptability, and overall efficiency. As market conditions evolve, the data fabric allows companies to adjust their logistics and operations in real time. As these energy giants pivot toward more sustainable and environmentally friendly sources of energy, their production and distribution models will evolve. However, their reliance on high-quality, well-managed information will remain constant. In fact, in this new energy landscape, a company’s information assets may become even more valuable than the raw materials that once defined their business.