White paper: how a next generation Data as a Service solution will enhance your organization.

1. HOW A NEXT
GENERATION
DATA AS A SERVICE
SOLUTION WILL ENHANCE
YOUR ORGANIZATION
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2. WHY DATA MANAGEMENT TODAY
IS NOT SATISFACTORY
§ As a consequence today, cost
grows exponentially as a function
of the number of source systems
and the connectedness between
them.
§ There is little to no synergy
between such projects as they
are done in different
departments, with different staff,
different service providers, and
serve different IT needs.
§ Every application has its own
interpretation of data.
§ This interpretation is
hidden in application
code and thus not explicit
from the data.
§ Such processes are custom
processes for “point-to-point”
(P2P) connections, each requiring
a deep-dive into understanding
and learning the source data.
§ As a consequence, reusing data
from system “A” in system “B”
thus typically means
establishing an “Extraction,
Transformation, and Loading”
(ETL) process.
Agility and cost
requirements of
businesses are not
being met.
Let us take a quick
look at what we are
doing today to find
and access the right
data for our
projects.
To provide access to data, applications have APIs… but:
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FAVELA
EXPERIENCE!
In spite of existing MDM
or BI Hub & Spoke
concepts, data integration
remains a “one-off”
activity which is funded by
each project individually.
Focus is solely on
providing the required
value to the project, not
on fundamentally making
data available.
THE SOLUTION TODAY
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4. How can
we fix it?
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Turn “Strings into Things” by
establishing global identifiers
Leverage vocabularies to establish
governance and meaning across application silos
Define central Governance, Authority
and Service function (CDO)
Start small…think big
And how could it be fixed
in an incremental/viral
way that does not require
the traditional big-bang
project approach?
Don’t think it will work on your scale?
Well, it works on the web!
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THE SOLUTION TOMORROW
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READY FOR AN AGILE AND CONNECTED FUTURE!
The combination of Data Lake and Knowledge Graph provides scalability and transparent
integration of all data in one central hub for up-to-the-minute read access.
100%greater flexibility
50%long-term cost reduction
for infrastructure
80%reduction of data-
related project cost
100%better overall
understanding of your data
THE SOLUTION TOMORROW
80%faster time to market
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7. Data as a Service:
A successful business model!
Breaks even within 12 months at service
charge of <5% of IT project budget per
managed data set
Instant qualified support in
selecting/choosing appropriate and
compliant data sets and data
combinations
Central function to assure
governance and compliance in terms
of security, privacy, secrecy…provide
integrated single point of contact!
Machine-readable documentation of
compliance and governance rules
Central inventory management team
for existing data sets
Central management of semantic
meaning
Guaranteed maintenance and support
per data source and data set at 500€ per
project per year
Carl-Martin Marquardt, Daimler AG
Domain
Vocabularies
Data Set
Management
Virtual
Cubes,
Formulas
Provenance,
Lineage
Security,
Confiden-
tiality
Conceptual
Models
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8. Preservation of and access to knowledge
Summary
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How to implement a Data as a Service infrastructure
Why data management today is not satisfactory
Data as a Service – A successful business model
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Doing the right things the right way
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The backend data connection
Interconnecting and aligning data
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Business access to data
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HOW A NEXT GENERATION
DATA AS A SERVICE SOLUTION
WILL ENHANCE YOUR ORGANIZATION
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9. Visit us at eccenca.com
WE ARE TURNING STRINGS INTO THINGS
eccenca GmbH
Hainstraße 8
04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 (0) 341 - 26 50 80 28
Fax +49 (0) 341 - 26 48 93 05
info@eccenca.com