Businesses make critical decisions using key data assets, but stakeholders often find it difficult to navigate the complex data landscape to ensure they have the right data and understand it correctly. Companies are dealing with a number of different technologies, multiple data formats, and high data volumes, along with the requirements for data security and governance.
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Agenda
• What’s happening with data?
• The new lifecycle
• Data landscape complexity
• Discovery & identification through models
– Specific capabilities
• What’s happening in reality?
• Concluding remarks
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Key Skill Sets
• Data Design & Management
• ETL and Software Development
• Data Analysis / Stats
• Business Analysis & Discovery
Value Delivered
• Validation
• Integration
• Enrichment
• Usability
Value and the New Lifecycle
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Discover
Document
(Model)
Integrate
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Data Landscape Complexity
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• Comprised of:
– Proliferation of disparate systems
– Mismatched departmental solutions
– Many database platforms
– Big data platforms
– ERP, SAAS
– Obsolete legacy systems
• Compounded by:
– Poor decommissioning strategy
– Point-to-point interfaces
– Data warehouse, data marts, ETL …
Data Archaeologist?
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Discovery and Identification Through Models
• Identify candidate data sources
• Reverse engineer data sources into models
• Identify, name and define
• Classify through metadata
• Map “like” items across models
• Data lineage / chain of custody
• Repository
• Collaboration & publishing
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ER/Studio: Native Big Data Support
• MongoDB
– Diagramming
– Reverse & Forward Engineering (JSON, BSON)
– MongoDB certification for 2.x and 3.0
• Certified for HDP 2.1
– Forward and reverse engineering
– Hive DDL
• Additonal MetaWizard capabilities for additional
platforms
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ER/Studio: Apply naming Standards
• Can invoke with other wizards
– General Physical Model
– Compare & Merge
– XML Schema Generation
– Model Validation
• Can apply to model or sub-model at any
time
• Either Direction
• Selective review/apply
• Enabled by loose model coupling
• Name lockdown (freeze names)
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ER/Studio: Universal Mappings
• Ability to link “like” or related objects
– Within same model file
– Across separate model files
• Entity/Table level
• Attribute/Column level
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Increasing volumes,
velocity, and variety of
Enterprise Data
30% - 50% year/year
growth
Decreasing % of
enterprise data which is
effectively utilized
5% of all Enterprise data
fully utilized
Increased risk from data
misunderstanding and
non-compliance
$600bn/annual cost for
data clean-up in U.S.
Enterprise Data Trends
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Business Stakeholders’ Data Usage
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Suspect that business stakeholders
INTERPRET DATA INCORRECTLY
Yes,
frequently
14%
Yes,
occasionally
67%
No, never
9%
I don’t know
10%
Suspect that business stakeholders make decisions
USING THE WRONG DATA?
Yes,
frequently
11%
Yes,
occasionally
64%
No, never
13%
I don’t know
12%
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Data Model Usage & Understanding
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13%
3%
16%
19%
31%
18%
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
We don’t use data models
Other
Our data team does most data
models but developers also build
them as needed
Our database administrators own
data modeling
Developers develop their own data
models
We have a data modeling team that
is responsible for data models
What is your organization’s approach to data modeling?
How well does your organization’s technology leadership team
understand the value of using data models?
Completely
understand
20%
Understand
somewhat
60%
Don’t
understand
17%
I don’t know
3%
87%
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Call to Action
• Audit, map and define existing data assets using
models, with the capabilities discussed
• Share, collaborate, govern
• Leverage data modeling to enable business agility
• Adapt to the “new” lifecycle
• Instill a data culture based on a philosophy of
continuous improvement
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Thank you!
• Learn more about the ER/Studio product family:
http://www.embarcadero.com/data-modeling
• Trial Downloads:
http://www.embarcadero.com/downloads
• To arrange a demo, please contact Embarcadero
Sales: sales@embarcadero.com, (888) 233-2224
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