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How to Achieve Data Agility

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08.02.2022
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In recent years, the wave of digital transformation has unleashed innovation and productivity across all industries around the globe. Every organization is grappling with the challenge of creating business value from the massive explosion of new data arriving in real time from multiple sources.

From the COVID-19 pandemic to the current economic headwinds, we’ve all seen just how quickly the business landscape can change. If this keeps you up at night, rest assured you are not alone. The solution is a modern approach to connecting, creating, interpreting, and consuming data that allows you to integrate facts with everything that is known about them to put the information in context for different business users and use cases.

We refer to this as data agility: the ability to make simple, powerful changes to how information is interpreted and acted upon.

To Achieve Data Agility, You Need a Semantic Data Platform

Data agility is what happens when you can connect active data, active metadata, and active meaning. To achieve data agility, you need a semantic data platform. It works like this: Data, together with its metadata, is collected and introduced into a semantic data platform that works with whatever data you collect. Once the semantic data platform ingests the data, it can be classified, enriched, stored tightly coupled with its metadata, and put into context. The metadata is effectively the connective tissue between the data and its meaning.

By deploying a semantic data platform, you can reduce time to value and deliver business outcomes that can transform your organization.

Look to Visionary Organizations to See How It’s Done

Our visionary customers invest in capturing and codifying organizational knowledge today. Here are some examples of how they solved a wide range of business problems by deploying a semantic data platform to achieve data agility:

  • Boeing drove efficient model-based engineering. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, used the MarkLogic data platform’s multi-model flexibility and semantic data capabilities to transition to a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) methodology. The result? The company improved efficiency, streamlined processes, connected disparate data sources, and provided better data analysis.
  • WoodmenLife delivered an enhanced experience to its members. WoodmenLife, a not-for-profit life insurance company, needed to make data from across its systems more accessible to the business and easier for its users to search. To achieve this, the organization turned to MarkLogic to help them transition away from legacy mainframes to a modern and agile data infrastructure. The result? By combining current and historical policy data with other unstructured data from across the enterprise, WoodmenLife enabled its users to more easily find all member policy information for servicing, reporting, and compliance. Providing a 360-degree view of the customer has greatly enhanced the customer experience.

Start Your Journey Toward Data Agility

Data agility is transformational. As with all transformational initiatives, it requires a bold vision, well-defined business outcomes, and tight alignment with key stakeholders. With the wisdom we’ve gained helping our customers and partners go down this path, we recommend that you:

  1. Start by finding the business problem you can solve with data agility. It bears repeating: Data challenges are everywhere. Look around to find the places where your organization is currently struggling with data. Define the problem, the dependencies (people, process, technology), and the business outcomes you can achieve by solving it.
  2. Choose the right technology. Look carefully at your business case to decide what technology is the best fit. Industry analyst reports, such as the Gartner Cloud DBMS Magic Quadrant or the Gartner Market Guide for Active Metadata, provide an in-depth analysis of solutions that can help you achieve your vision.
  3. Get buy-in for your initiative. Develop a business case that clearly articulates your desired state, how you plan to achieve it, and why it’s important to your organization. Socialize it with internal stakeholders who are critical for success. Once you have aligned with your key stakeholders, build a tiger team to help develop a proof of concept that will demonstrate the capabilities of the technology you are vetting.

Ready to achieve data agility? Check out our eBook, A Business Leader’s Guide to Delivering Change with Data Agility, to learn more.

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テクノロジーおよびデータ業界の経営陣として長年の経験があるカサーリは、直近ではデル・テクノロジーズセレクトグループの社長を務めていました(このグループはデル・テクノロジーズのアセットポートフォリオを活用し、最大規模のグローバルカスタマーにおけるデジタルトランスフォーメーションを促進しています)。ここでは、組織の立ち上げ、戦略、運営を担当し、業績は数十億ドル規模まで拡大しました。それ以前はVMwareで上席副社長を務め、最大の担当地域における現場の活動を指揮していました。そこでは、その後会社成長の中核となる複数の新規事業立ち上げのリーダシップチームに参加していました。初期のキャリアにおいては、EMCコーポレーションにおいて経営陣として複数の役割を担っていました(ヨーロッパおよび南米を10年間担当など)。

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