Data Management Strategy & Platform Modernization
Customer Challenge
An insurance company required strategies for platform modernization and managing data within a data lake environment.
Innovative Solution
Illumination Works identified architectural decision points for platform tool selection and provided advisory services for a comprehensive data management strategy. Illumination Works performed an assessment of existing data architecture principles compared to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) principles, identifying gaps, and developing clean and precise definitions for platform tool comparison.
Benefits/Outcomes
- Near-, mid-, and long-term tasks to enable the company to modernize their data platform and improve data management processes
- Adoption of improved architectural principles
- Platform/tool comparison for future data capabilities
- Strategy for data management within a data lake environment
- Data governance approach tying effort to need
- Data quality, governance, and metadata maturity awareness
Toolbox
- Data warehousing
- Data transformation
- Enterprise data management
- Data quality
- Data governance
- Metadata
- Data lineage
Business Value
- Enabled adoption of improved architecture principles and agile methods for significant progress towards modernization next steps
- Enhanced business information with tiered strategy for data governance, data quality, metadata, and lineage
- Improved trust of data with disciplined governance at the entry point of the data lake
Domain Expertise
- TOGAF data architecture principles
- DAMA data management principles
- Agile methodologies
