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Organizations of every size, in every industry, whether nonprofit, for
profit or governmental have to manage their data. Data is everywhere and
its growing rapidly. Different organizations face different types of
problems:
- data duplicated through internal systems must be synchronized
- organizations with multiple locations need to provide homogeneous
high-level views across the network while still keeping each
location independent
- large scale inter-organizational supply chains are often managed by
through manual re-keying of data into excel spreadsheets
While there are many solutions to these problems, only XDI is based on an open standard that is designed to leverage the power
of an open, distributed, identity system. To address today's real-world IT problems, XDI offers some unique and powerful features including:
- an explicit intra-system mapping architecture
- built-in versioning and caching
implemented by the engine not by the application.
- an authorization mechanism (Link Contracts) that can both
leverage and transcend the capabilities of network control
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