The Intarsia database is optimized for insurance data types and sources and it draws information from multiple silos across an insurance organization's environment into a centralized datamart.

Intarsia starts the automated data gathering process with the policy administration system where a pre-built connection extracts relevant policyholder and agent information. Other pre-built connections include most of the popular industry banking, credit card and investment systems such as FDR, PrimeVest and SunGard.

Data can also be uploaded from other internal databases (JDBC, ODBC, SQL, or standard delimited files) or brought in from outside sources like commercial data providers who sell demographic and psychographic data.