Master Data Management Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy and Governance

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1 ? Master Data Management Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy and Governance

2 Intertwining three strategic fields of Information Technology, We help you Get the best out of IT Master Data Management MDM Streamline the flow of your core data elements that are critical to business operations: STANDARDIZE Data Structures (Build common language across systems, business units & reports) REDUCE Data redundancies (Synchronize data changes that occur in multiple places) ESTABLISH Data Integrity, data accuracy and a single source of truth Enterprise Architecture EA Create a manageable inventory of your IT assets that produces transparency in your enterprise. Seamlessly, connecting systems and databases together: ORGANIZE and consolidate your systems into an Application Portfolio by business function IDENTIFY Single Points of Failure and reduce business risk within critical systems SIMPLIFY Change Management automate reports communicated affected systems and people IT Governance & Strategy Working gently alongside your IT organization to leverage and fulfill your business goals: ALIGN current investments with the future (help arrange systems development to bring out maximum business functionality) LEVERAGE IT investments within the current IT budgets, prioritize investments between IT support and current development to reduce future costs or increase IT benefits FILL Information Gaps (identify sources for core data elements and pass them onto systems that lack these core data elements) ENABLE BC / DR Planning (Create Disaster Recovery for Business Continuity by using infrastructure that is already procured through re-architecture and re-factoring) FACILITATE audit preparation (Examine databases to create expert reports of data storage / retention policies and be on the customer s behalf) EK MN CVV

3 Apoorva captures information about your critical and high availability business systems with a simple cataloging of applications, their inter-relationships, their usage by the business units, and their support efforts. The resulting Application Portfolio provides clarity on cost, value (such as revenue generation, customer service, and customer satisfaction), traffic, and the health of applications within the company. When these applications are viewed in a timeline, they become Application Roadmaps. Apoorva s Strategic Application Roadmaps help your business units confidently distinguish critical system upgrades from nice-to-have application changes. The Application Roadmaps, combined with the Application Portfolio and our process of Technology Governance & IT Strategy, help clients recognize and align their business strategies, compliance capabilities and risk management practices. The payback is a true understanding of technology options that drive high performance scalable growth.

4 Apoorva s MDM is designed around your company s core data elements: Uniquely structured Platform agnostic Easy to implement Our MDM solution: Establishes corporate Data Integrity Decommissions Databases Compatible with EAI or ETL Programs Works with real-time applications EK MN CVV

5 Moving a system to the cloud can be a simple exercise of migrating it from inhouse hardware to someone else s hardware. However, when other internal systems are integrated with that system, things get complicated now new integrations must be replaced over the new transport layer. Complexity increases exponentially if the system is migrating to cloud-based software instead of simply moving to the cloud. Expensive and Slow, complex and cumbersome. Likely to have performance issues including disconnects and other issues. Requires higher maintenance and change costs. Cost conscious, faster, and simpler. Easier to identify critical components and integration points. Less expensive to maintain and make changes. MDM To make data migration easier, whether you are moving systems to the cloud or re-tooling an internal system, Apoorva builds a component of Master Data Management that is geared toward transactions rather than analytics. Our transactional MDM component helps establish (a) consistent data definitions across internal and cloud-based systems and (b) consistent data quality between the systems with faster data refresh frequencies.

6 Whether you have a partially built Data Warehouse or are just starting to put together several databases to derive Business Intelligence / Analytics, the Apoorva team can help you create everything from canned-reports to user-defined reports to multi-dimensional analysis. Tools such as Business Objects, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), QlikView and Tableau offer rich set of drag-and-drop analytical tools which can be deployed on top of your databases. These tools work with commonly available databases such as Oracle, Microsoft and MySQL. The Apoorva team s experienced-based skills with many of these BI tools has given us the ability to build databases that are compatible with BI technology. EK MN CVV

7 When the Apoorva team needs to dig deep into the data and get more than Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics, we use learning algorithms such as Naïve Bayes, Neural Networks and k-nearest Neighbor. These algorithms help predict an outcome when test data is provided. We build several models to forecast outcomes. Prior to employing learning algorithms, Apoorva uses data visualization techniques of scatter plots, attribute statistics, and mosaic displays to get a basic understanding of the underlying data. This is followed by classification tree algorithms to visually demonstrate the probabilities of each case. Using these techniques, businesses can use customer classification data to determine the probability of success for a proposed marketing program.

8 Our customers strive to make strategic and fact-based decisions that will lead to successful results. The essentials are familiar architectural constructs arranged to establish a predictable, integrated whole. Enterprise Architecture Sub-Domains The differentiator is a structure that treats IT objects as the technology component of a business function, thereby avoiding any possible internal misalignments. The structure is not restrictive in terms of the additional architectural components that may be utilized, as long as the core components are utilized in the governance process. For example, Enterprise Visibility has helped our customers establish a cross-functional understanding between business and technology. More importantly, it has significantly decreased the time and effort required to bring new hires on board in the IT department. Enterprise Architecture Priorities The Business Architecture Framework that we build can be accessible to all parts of the organization to drive consistent, measured behavior and provide key insights into decision making.

9 Apoorva discovers and analyzes the physical and logical connectivity of all the critical applications in your technology environment we use a connectivity and data flow architecture to identify Single Points of Failure (SPOFs). Then we follow through with an annual Fault Tolerance audit & report. The Single Points of Failure analysis fits within our Enterprise Architecture practice to create transparency for existing Information Technology (IT) Investments. Manual Management of Network- Single Public facing content management is load In addition to identifying the SPOFs, we help businesses set up outage notification systems that can automatically alert the correct business liaison. Through automation, the Apoorva team helps IT departments achieve and maintain a reputation for operational excellence. In complex technology environments, we use architecture repository tools and create redundant configuration items that are connected to both auto discovery and change management process.

10 Apoorva complements a company s (IT) Strategy. Leveraging a client s existing documentation, we compile and organize systems into Application Roadmaps toward a clear understanding of current versus future possibilities. This raises awareness of existing IT environments, and it drafts the future use of technologies and respective investments. Using a roadmap that is carefully considered and thoroughly socialized, the Apoorva team helps the Program Management Office (PMO) prioritize investments through four important components (VCRh): Value, Cost, Risk, and Health of a system/application. With the VCRh model, the Apoorva team identifies technology boundaries that provide governance. This set of boundaries (for example, how to implement system adapters or when to use a Content Management System) will streamline IT investments from small initiatives of $10K to large projects that are estimated at $2M and above.

11 Change Management for Information Technology is an important and influencing factor in improving critical system availability, operational performance. and network throughput. When a change is planned, understanding the systems being impacted is a vital factor in successful change implementation. In your IT department, Apoorva establishes an Architecture Repository that produces Impact Analysis reports. These reports are then utilized by your technical staff to know all the facts before approving / denying a change. For every change that is implemented, the process updates the CMDB (Change Management Database), which semi-automatically updates the Architecture Repository. Updates are semi-automatic because some non-hardware related components such as stakeholder information and support staff information are manually entered. Finally, the Apoorva team produces analytics and reports for Change Management by tapping into the Architecture Repository. These reports can be categorized by system, OS, business unit...

12 About Apoorva provides strategic Information Technology (IT) services for transformational CIOs through a globally recognized executive team, experienced business analysts, and seasoned engineers, to bring measurable business value, resulting in unprecedented (Apoorva) customer satisfaction. Established in 2001, Apoorva delivers strategic services specializing in Master Data Management (MDM), Enterprise Architecture (EA), and IT Strategy & Governance. Apoorva utilizes industry standard tools such as Oracle, Microsoft, and Informatica. Apoorva utilizes EA to create the blueprints of IT assets and IT organizations in order to suggest a business focused IT strategy. MDM techniques are used to fill gaps within the information flow. Every business system that Apoorva builds comes with a 90-day warranty for a bug-free implementation. The same warranty is extended to every system that is built or deployed by others after Apoorva's staff conducts an architecture review and implements recommended high quality modifications. www. Apoorva. com