14/04: Data Platform Innovation: Industry Leading Practices

Category: Best Practices
Posted by: bagheljas
Availability and Applications of Data have emerged as a business innovation engine of the present time and for the foreseeable future.

Data Platforms are a conglomerate of Business Requirements, Architectures, Tools & Technologies, Frameworks, and Processes to provide Data Services. Hence, the Data Platform Innovation foundation is from people, processes, and technology managing and utilizing an enterprise Data Platform. In the article, I have organized the emerging Industry Leading Practices into seven Pillars to maximize data value at speed in an enterprise environment.

Pillars - Data Platform Innovation: Industry Leading Practices
Pillars - Data Platform Innovation: Industry Leading Practices

  • Autonomy
    • Implement Data as a Product with an operating model that establishes data product owner and team.
    • Support Data Democratization utilizing Distributed Data Architecture and Data Mesh.
    • Enable end-to-end service delivery ownership to the Data product owner.

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    • Create a raw Data copy availability to enable AI Data Models yet to be discovered.
    • Utilize AI Tools to manage Data identification, correction, and remediation of Data quality issues.

  • User Experience
    • Create and manage data literacy and data-driven cultural activities for employees to learn and embrace the value of data.
    • Enable data navigation and data research tools for employees.

  • Automation
    • Utilize DataOps at the heart of provisioning, processing, and information management to deliver real-time use cases.
    • Implement automatic backup and restoration of Data and digital twins of the Data estate.

  • Center of Excellence
    • Shift from stakeholders' buy-in approach to delivery partners' approach that finds and enables innovation.
    • Create Data Eco-System utilizing Data Alliances, Data Sharing Agreements, and Data Marketplace to develop an Enterprise Data Economy.
    • Publish Common Data Models, Policies, and Processes to promote ease of collaboration within and across organizations.

  • Data Security
    • Contribute actively to individual data-protection awareness and rights.
    • Communicate the importance of data security throughout the organization.
    • Develop Data privacy, Data ethics, and Data security as areas of competency, not just to comply with mandates.

  • Cloud Services
    • Cloud First mindset for quickly exploring and adopting innovation at speed with minimal sunk cost once that becomes mainstream. Let the business model drive the Cloud equilibrium.
    • Enable cloud for flexible data model tools supporting querying for unstructured data.
    • Enable edge devices and high-performance computing available at Data sources to deliver real-time use cases.


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