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..The Future of Data
The writing is not just on the wall, it’s everywhere.
Data is King.
What we Do
Establish Governance
Governance – it isn’t a bad word anymore. Quite the contrary, it’s essential. Data governance has evolved into a powerful, dynamic, metadata-driven foundation upon which we build trustworthy information. And that information is the engine for the enterprise.
Our four steps to success:
Governance Evaluation
Design the Standards
Methodology
Plan the Information Evolution
Dig In
Data is everywhere in your company – desktop to Cloud. The first step is uncovering, cataloguing, analyzing and understanding the needs of the business.
Implement the Plan
You know the data and the rules and you have a plan for governance. You need methods and tools to implement the core structures of the technology. You need what we call putting the ‘data in the box’. We can help you get the job done.
Design the Structure
Once we understand the use to which every data item in your company is being applied, it’s time to establish standards, rules and means of compliance. All charted through a metadata repository. This step charts the way.
Envision the Evolution
Once governance is in-place and information integrity assured, you’ve done the hard work of establishing the foundation. Now you can begin to plot the course to becoming a truly data-driven enterprise.
R&D
Carry out the Evolution
The data is ‘in the box’. We have a working, dynamic metadata at the core of our governance. Now it’s time to make full use of it.
Data Flow Analysis
Data Pipeline Optimization
Analytics
AI and Machine Learning
Information Dashboards
Map the flows
Chart everything. Identify everything. What are the sources and timing? What are the pipeline stages – the ingestors, restructuring, filtering – and where is it going? How often, how fast?
Establish the Analytics
Having good data is the foundation – and the next challenge is having good analytics so the information you produce is meaningful to the business. This is another area of data science where instincts based on experience can play a very helpful role. We’ve got that experience.
Optimize the Pipelines
Real-time data at high velocity. Legacy data that’s highly normalized. Unstructured data that AI uses for predictive analytics. All good stuff, and all governed. Now let’s tune it.
Build the Future
You have the data firmly established ‘in the box’. Your data delivery pipelines are optimized and you’ve developed an analytics regimen that is producing highly significant information. Now that information begins to drive every aspect of your business. It’s the final evolution, and it takes some careful steps.
Utilize Information Dashboards
The information you’ve so carefully cultivated truly is the corporate treasure. But in order to reap benefit from it – in order for it to drive the business – it needs to be disseminated and displayed in a highly accessible fashion. Building those dashboards needs to be a democratized skill within your company. We can help.
We work with world-class Partners
Data Science isn’t directly our domain – but we have partners who live, breathe, eat and sleep all things data. We bring them to the table as they’re needed, while we serve as your advocate, providing oversight and program management. Guaranteeing success.
Have a custom data project?
We see this all as a process – an evolutionary one. But sometimes, you’ve just got a one-off, a bespoke outcome you need. With the breadth of our business acumen and technical network, we can make it happen.
Get our Whitepaper
The art (and science) of establishing a solid data landscape is an ever-evolving and complex topic. We have a whitepaper that goes into considerably more detail about the general approach described here.
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