Is your data infrastructure aging? Historically, many companies allowed their applications to develop in vertical silos defined around business function. However, in today's horizontally aligned business model, a new challenge surfaces: the need to share common reference data across silos. In a vertically aligned business model, much data about critical concepts are locked away without easy and efficient ways to make them available to other business units. Further, business units often compete for the "ownership" of these concepts. Finding a rational strategy for sharing acceptable by business and technical stakeholders is challenging. This seminar explores the practical issues in the planning, coordination, and marketing of the business and technical solutions for Master Data Management. We'll also look at cross-functional issues where data architecture interacts with business, application, and technology architectures. In doing so, we hope to prepare an established company to fully participate as a 21st-century Information Age company.
You will take away:- The practical means to create a strategic data infrastructure plan.
- Understanding of key data architecture alternatives.
- How to identify critical data repository elements.
- The importance of road mapping and harvesting low-hanging fruit.
- How to market and sell the plan to management and your peer stakeholders.
- How to secure funding and resources.
- The possible organizational changes you may need to make