Data Sharing
InformationGrid offers a suite of data sharing services that are designed to help organizations set up, operationalize, and actively participate in data spaces. These services enable seamless collaboration and governance across diverse ecosystems. Rour growing suite of services include;
- the Datastation service—leveraging IDSA standards and trusted frameworks like iSHARE for secure data exchange;
- the Vocabulary service, which facilitates the sharing of data schemas, vocabularies, and dictionaries to ensure semantic consistency;
- the Audit Log service, providing comprehensive capture and management of transactional audit events to support transparency and compliance.
Together, these services empower organizations to unlock the full potential of data sharing with confidence and control.
Luminis Datastation: The trusted connector as a service
As part of the European Data Strategy, organizations are looking at ways to participate in and benefit from data spaces. And with the emerging reality of data spaces, organizations are faced with questions like what standards to adhere to and how to minimize risk and costs.
The Luminis Datastation is a Connector-as-a-Service that implements secure and trusted data exchange. It allows organizations to participate in federated data ecosystems without needing to invest in the underlying standards and infrastructures.
Main Features Luminis Datastation
Luminis Datastation is designed to serve as the gateway for participating in data spaces, enabling organizations to share and access data while retaining full control over usage and compliance.
It supports the iSHARE trust framework for federated Identity and Access Management to ensure that all data sharing parties are trusted and authorized. It supports the IDSA connector architecture and data space protocol to negotiate the access and usage of data.
At the heart of Datastation lies InformationGrid, Luminis’ secure, data-centric cloud platform that brings agility, security, and integration to your data strategy.
InformationGrid provides for a modular and extensible architecture for rapid solution development, support for semantic data models, APIs, and connectors, and end-to-end auditability, data lineage, and monitoring.
Luminis Datastation aligns with the data spaces that are central to the emerging European Data Strategy. It enables compliance with IDSA, iSHARE, and other ecosystem standards. Whether you’re in mobility, energy, logistics, or healthcare, Datastation supports cross-domain collaboration through the adoption of open standards, plug-and-play integration with your existing systems and scalable cloud-based deployments on public or private infrastructure.
Datastations provide comprehensive data management capabilities that empower organizations to model and govern their data products, offerings, and access policies with precision. Through intuitive tools, Datastations enable you to define data products and offerings clearly, while enforcing fine-grained access and usage controls via customizable policies. This policy-driven approach ensures that data sharing is not only seamless but also secure, compliant, and aligned with your strategic objectives—turning complex data ecosystems into manageable, trustworthy environments.
