Enabling Enterprise-Wide Access to Data Through a Scalable Analytics Roadmap
Customer Challenge
The Navy required a roadmap to advance their analytic environment to integrate multiple domains of cross-departmental data into a single self-service analytic data repository.
Innovative Solution
Illumination Works conducted an extensive interview process with technical and subject matter experts to create a mid- and long-term analytic roadmap. Our experts assessed the enterprise-level current and future state data architecture, identified gaps/constraints, and developed a scalable plan of action to ease integration, curation, and fusion of data from multiple logistics inputs and enable a self-service analytic journey across Navy departments.
Benefits/Outcomes
- Detailed overarching self-service analytic architecture
- Implemented holistic data governance policies/practices
- Defined layers/tiers to ensure consistent data handling, access, and use
- Implemented multi-layered/multi-tiered data exposure
- Utilized configuration management and well-defined code branching strategy
- Utilized role-based access policies/service accounts
- Automated metadata capture at ingestion and enhanced via subject matter expert inputs
- Provided user interface-based connections for Hadoop and Impala database for faster analytic querying
Toolbox
- Hadoop, NiFi, Hive, Sqoop, Jupyter, Tableau, Qlik, Hue, Impala, Cloudera Data Science Workbook, Python, Spark
- Enterprise data architecture and data management best practices
Business Value
- Self-service data analytic tools for timely insights on readiness, maintenance, supply, and other correlated factors
- Scalable enterprise solution to support long-term growth of large-scale analytic environment
- Structured, repeatable approach to fusion, data curation, storage, and access to speed analytics
Domain Expertise
- Maintenance
- Supply
