Empowering business in a data-centric world

Enterprises have application centric silos and process centric silos today. Data is distributed and ‘dirty’ at a time when your enterprise needs it the most. How can you turn this around to build a data centric enterprise?

What does it take to transform yourself into a data centric enterprise? Good Data Governance is key. Unfortunately governance programs sometimes do not get off the ground as they sound large, expensive and have no obvious return on investment. This is unfortunate as Data Governance can be broken down into component projects, each providing a compelling return on investment. This session will look at the value of introducing the five pillars of Data Governance.

You have your legacy environment and daily realities to balance with challenges brought by future innovation. The Data Explosion means a cost challenge in the IT department as the business requires more data to get or stay ahead of your competition. IT data management processes designed for an application-centric world will not easily scale to your rapidly increasing demands on data availability. How can you build IT processes, data models and an integration infrastructure to meet the collective demands of daily business, innovation and data disruption – all within your budget?

A main problem with many integration solutions is that they integrate applications rather than information. Therefore delivering information to business processes and analytics is complicated and often fails. By using business glossary and meta data driven development of information assets it is possible to support the heterogenic platforms that already exist.

Data management is the central nervous system of organizations, yet many address enterprise data architecture as an afterthought. The result is data fragmentation and slow business initiative delivery, to the point where business is creating “shadow IT” efforts. This session will look at the critical success factors for a world-class data management capability, including Integration Competency Centers and intelligent data platforms.

Heather will describe how Informatica PIM solution is the enabling engine for change and ensuring Electrolux delivers the right information to the right place at the right time. She will share how Electrolux realized the need for change, and then used that realization to globally and cross-functionally align around business needs to design an agreed PIM Solution. She will discuss the importance of driving and leading from the business perspective, of using business scenarios and use cases to shape the technology. And finally, delivering a solution that provides value to Electrolux - customers, consumers and personnel.

High-flying companies today are winning by capturing customer insight and market meaning from the flood of information that swirls around all of us. This digital force-field that envelops people, organizations, and devices contains rich business meaning that can drive both mind share and market leadership. This is the new world of “Code Halos” and goes beyond “Big Data”and or specific technologies. Cognizant believes that a clear model for value is emerging that organizations can leverage. The session will explore just what it takes to be an innovative, data driven, customer focused player in this space and will offer delegates a vision to create new commercial sparks and re-imagine core processes.

In this session, Ford Goodman will discuss how the Intelligent Data Platform requires a robust data infrastructure layer. Ford will review the capabilities built into the platform that seamlessly integrate data from any application in the cloud or on premise, without the need for hand coding.