Build a Data Integration Strategy
Integrate your data or disintegrate your business.
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Not having a business-aligned approach to data integration results in:
- Inefficient, inaccurate, and delayed decision making.
- Wasted resources due to inefficient operations and processes.
- Inaccurate insights, inconsistent or erroneous operational and management reports, and ineffective cross-departmental use of analytics.
Having a business-aligned approach to data integration results in:
- Good data quality, allowing you to generate insights into customer intimacy, operational excellence, and innovation leadership.
- Effective data architecture tactics driven by business need for data.
- A corporate culture that holds data as a priority and an asset.
Module 1: Collect Integration Requirements
The Purpose
- Explain approach and value proposition.
- Review the common business drivers and how the organization is driving a need to optimize data integration.
- Understand Info-Tech’s approach to data integration.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Current integration architecture is understood.
- Priorities for tactical initiatives in the data architecture practice related to integration are identified.
- Target state for data integration is defined.
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| 1.1 | Discuss the current data integration environment and the pains that are felt by the business and IT. |
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| 1.2 | Determine what the problem statement and business case look like to kick-start a data integration improvement initiative. |
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| 1.3 | Understand data integration requirements from the business. |
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Module 2: Analyze Integration Requirements
The Purpose
- Understand what the business requires from the integration solution.
- Identify the common technical requirements and how they relate to business requirements.
- Review the trends in data integration to take advantage of new technologies.
- Brainstorm how the data integration trends can fit within your environment.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Business-aligned requirements gathered for the integration solution.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Understand what the business requires from the integration solution. |
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| 2.2 | Identify the common technical requirements and how they relate to business requirements. |
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Module 3: Design the Data-Centric Integration Solution
The Purpose
- Learn about the various integration patterns that support organizations’ data integration architecture.
- Determine the pattern that best fits within your environment.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Improvement initiatives are defined.
- Improvement initiatives are evaluated and prioritized to develop an improvement strategy.
- A roadmap is defined to depict when and how to tackle the improvement initiatives.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Learn about the various integration patterns that support organizations’ data integration architecture. |
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| 3.2 | Determine the pattern that best fits within your environment. |
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