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Data Effectiveness

Focus on a data-driven organization. If your data is not only available, but also usable and valuable, you can make better data-driven decisions and optimize your business processes.

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Becoming a data-driven company with data effectiveness

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Recognizing hidden potential, making informed decisions, using growing volumes of data efficiently: Companies today are faced with the challenge of creating real added value from their data.

This is where the concept of the data-driven organization comes in:
Data becomes the central basis for decision-making, processes are made smarter and more customer-oriented, development times are shortened and competitive advantages are secured.

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The advantages of a data-driven organization at a glance

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From challenges to clear solutions – how to make your company data-driven

Data alone does not bring success. The decisive factor is how you use it, organize it and apply it in a targeted manner to solve your business challenges. Use the following approaches to add value to your data strategies, architectures and processes – always with a focus on your business value.

Data strategy

Data-Aware Architecture

MLOps

Modern data pipelines

Marcel Mikl

Service Lead Data & ML & AI

Let's talk about data effectiveness in your company – for better data-driven decisions and optimized business processes.

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Data strategy

Your basis for data-driven success

A successful data strategy is the key factor in transforming your company to be data-driven. It links business goals with data and AI initiatives, creates governance and ensures that data-driven decision-making processes are anchored in the corporate culture. A good data strategy answers key questions:

  • What business value should your data create?
  • How are data and AI initiatives strategically aligned with your goals?
  • How is the use of data and AI designed to be sustainable and scalable?

Your path to a value-creating data strategy

Define business value
Data projects are often technically driven and not aligned with strategic business goals.

  • Develop a clear link between data and strategic goals such as increasing sales, reducing costs or customer satisfaction.

Create governance
Unclear responsibilities and roles can lead to fragmented data approaches and a lack of quality.

  • Clear roles and responsibilities, reliable data quality and ethical guidelines ensure the success of your data strategy.

Promote transformation
Data-driven decisions require a change in mindset and processes – this change is often underestimated.

  • Train your employees to work in a data-driven way and embed data-based decisions in your corporate culture.

Plan for sustainability
Pilot projects bring quick success, but the transfer to the entire organization often fails.

  • Start with pilot projects, build skills in the team and develop a scalable, future-proof data infrastructure.

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Data-Aware Architecture

Think holistically, implement sustainably

A robust and flexible data architecture is essential for successfully building a data-driven organization. It is the basis for transparent data flows, consistent data quality and the seamless integration of modern technologies – while also ensuring that governance and compliance are successfully implemented.

Your path to a data-aware architecture

Overcoming data silos
Many organizations struggle with fragmented data sources, outdated legacy systems and a lack of transparency. This hinders the creation of a unified view of customers, processes or business goals.

  • Integrate historically grown silos to create an enterprise-wide, consistent view of data.
  • Unlock valuable data from legacy systems and use it for modern, data-driven applications.

Integrate technological diversity
The rapidly growing data platform ecosystem offers countless options, but the selection and integration of these technologies is complex. There is often a lack of clear criteria for combining innovation with long-term stability and maintainability.

  • Navigate the diverse data platform ecosystem to integrate flexible, stable and maintainable technologies into a coherent architecture.
  • Balance innovation – such as cloud-native solutions – with operational requirements such as scalability and security.

Ensure governance and compliance
Companies must ensure data protection requirements and transparency in data origin and use – often in distributed and heterogeneous system landscapes. However, clear data governance is often lacking.

  • Establish company-wide roles and responsibilities to make data management efficient and transparent.
  • Implement principles such as "data protection by design" and make the origin and use of data clearly traceable.

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MLOps

From the idea to the real AI application

AI projects often get stuck in the development phase. Although many companies are successfully experimenting with machine learning (ML) models, they face considerable challenges when it comes to putting these models into productive use and operating them effectively in the long term.
Modern MLOps practices close this gap and ensure that AI solutions are not only scalable, but also sustainable and efficient.

Your path to a productive AI application

From experiment to production
ML models often get stuck in the development phase without making the leap into productive environments. There is often a lack of automated processes and standards to make ML pipelines reliable.

  • Automate ML pipelines to close the gap between experiment and production.
  • Build scalable and reproducible workflows that meet the needs of both data scientists and IT operations.

Continuous model monitoring
Even productive models lose value if data drift (changes in the data) or model drift (deteriorating results) are not detected in time. Many companies struggle with inadequate monitoring and a lack of feedback loops.

  • Implement monitoring systems that detect data and model drift at an early stage.
  • Establish feedback loops that enable continuous model optimization and ensure that the results remain robust in the long term.

Collaboration and processes in the team
Silos between data science and IT operations prevent interdisciplinary teams from working together efficiently. Consistent processes along the entire ML lifecycle are often lacking, as are MLOps-specific skills.

  • Promote collaboration between Data Science and IT Operations by building interdisciplinary MLOps skills in the team.
  • Standardize processes along the entire ML lifecycle to create efficiency and transparency.

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Modern data pipelines

For stability and scalability

High-quality and scalable data pipelines are the foundation for all data-driven applications, decisions and business models. They make your data reliably available, ensure quality and ensure that you can keep pace with growing requirements.

Your path to a real AI application

Scalability and real-time processing
The amount of data and the number of sources are growing exponentially – and conventional architectures are often not sufficient to ensure an efficient combination of real-time and batch processing.

  • Develop pipelines that enable both batch processing and real-time data processing.
  • Use streaming architectures to make current data immediately available – for example for analyses or automated processes.

Data quality and reliability
Without automated quality checks and clearly traceable data lineage, errors can creep in that go unnoticed and jeopardize data-driven decisions. A lack of monitoring also makes it difficult to identify problems quickly.

  • Integrate automated data quality checks as well as a monitoring and alerting system that makes data errors immediately visible.
  • Ensure complete transparency about your data with clearly traceable data lineage and metadata management.

Strategic integration of modern technologies
Selecting and integrating modern data engineering tools and cloud-native services can be a challenge. You may be wondering where to start or how to establish effective DataOps practices to make your systems flexible and future-proof.

  • Select the data engineering tools that fit your requirements and existing systems.
  • Use flexible cloud-native services and rely on proven DataOps practices to continuously improve your processes and drive innovation.

Data strategy

Data-Aware Architecture

MLOps

Modern data pipelines

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Data strategy

Your basis for data-driven success

A successful data strategy is the key factor in transforming your company to be data-driven. It links business goals with data and AI initiatives, creates governance and ensures that data-driven decision-making processes are anchored in the corporate culture. A good data strategy answers key questions:

  • What business value should your data create?
  • How are data and AI initiatives strategically aligned with your goals?
  • How is the use of data and AI designed to be sustainable and scalable?

Your path to a value-creating data strategy

Define business value
Data projects are often technically driven and not aligned with strategic business goals.

  • Develop a clear link between data and strategic goals such as increasing sales, reducing costs or customer satisfaction.

Create governance
Unclear responsibilities and roles can lead to fragmented data approaches and a lack of quality.

  • Clear roles and responsibilities, reliable data quality and ethical guidelines ensure the success of your data strategy.

Promote transformation
Data-driven decisions require a change in mindset and processes – this change is often underestimated.

  • Train your employees to work in a data-driven way and embed data-based decisions in your corporate culture.

Plan for sustainability
Pilot projects bring quick success, but the transfer to the entire organization often fails.

  • Start with pilot projects, build skills in the team and develop a scalable, future-proof data infrastructure.

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Data-Aware Architecture

Think holistically, implement sustainably

A robust and flexible data architecture is essential for successfully building a data-driven organization. It is the basis for transparent data flows, consistent data quality and the seamless integration of modern technologies – while also ensuring that governance and compliance are successfully implemented.

Your path to a data-aware architecture

Overcoming data silos
Many organizations struggle with fragmented data sources, outdated legacy systems and a lack of transparency. This hinders the creation of a unified view of customers, processes or business goals.

  • Integrate historically grown silos to create an enterprise-wide, consistent view of data.
  • Unlock valuable data from legacy systems and use it for modern, data-driven applications.

Integrate technological diversity
The rapidly growing data platform ecosystem offers countless options, but the selection and integration of these technologies is complex. There is often a lack of clear criteria for combining innovation with long-term stability and maintainability.

  • Navigate the diverse data platform ecosystem to integrate flexible, stable and maintainable technologies into a coherent architecture.
  • Balance innovation – such as cloud-native solutions – with operational requirements such as scalability and security.

Ensure governance and compliance
Companies must ensure data protection requirements and transparency in data origin and use – often in distributed and heterogeneous system landscapes. However, clear data governance is often lacking.

  • Establish company-wide roles and responsibilities to make data management efficient and transparent.
  • Implement principles such as "data protection by design" and make the origin and use of data clearly traceable.

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MLOps

From the idea to the real AI application

AI projects often get stuck in the development phase. Although many companies are successfully experimenting with machine learning (ML) models, they face considerable challenges when it comes to putting these models into productive use and operating them effectively in the long term.
Modern MLOps practices close this gap and ensure that AI solutions are not only scalable, but also sustainable and efficient.

Your path to a productive AI application

From experiment to production
ML models often get stuck in the development phase without making the leap into productive environments. There is often a lack of automated processes and standards to make ML pipelines reliable.

  • Automate ML pipelines to close the gap between experiment and production.
  • Build scalable and reproducible workflows that meet the needs of both data scientists and IT operations.

Continuous model monitoring
Even productive models lose value if data drift (changes in the data) or model drift (deteriorating results) are not detected in time. Many companies struggle with inadequate monitoring and a lack of feedback loops.

  • Implement monitoring systems that detect data and model drift at an early stage.
  • Establish feedback loops that enable continuous model optimization and ensure that the results remain robust in the long term.

Collaboration and processes in the team
Silos between data science and IT operations prevent interdisciplinary teams from working together efficiently. Consistent processes along the entire ML lifecycle are often lacking, as are MLOps-specific skills.

  • Promote collaboration between Data Science and IT Operations by building interdisciplinary MLOps skills in the team.
  • Standardize processes along the entire ML lifecycle to create efficiency and transparency.

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Modern data pipelines

For stability and scalability

High-quality and scalable data pipelines are the foundation for all data-driven applications, decisions and business models. They make your data reliably available, ensure quality and ensure that you can keep pace with growing requirements.

Your path to a real AI application

Scalability and real-time processing
The amount of data and the number of sources are growing exponentially – and conventional architectures are often not sufficient to ensure an efficient combination of real-time and batch processing.

  • Develop pipelines that enable both batch processing and real-time data processing.
  • Use streaming architectures to make current data immediately available – for example for analyses or automated processes.

Data quality and reliability
Without automated quality checks and clearly traceable data lineage, errors can creep in that go unnoticed and jeopardize data-driven decisions. A lack of monitoring also makes it difficult to identify problems quickly.

  • Integrate automated data quality checks as well as a monitoring and alerting system that makes data errors immediately visible.
  • Ensure complete transparency about your data with clearly traceable data lineage and metadata management.

Strategic integration of modern technologies
Selecting and integrating modern data engineering tools and cloud-native services can be a challenge. You may be wondering where to start or how to establish effective DataOps practices to make your systems flexible and future-proof.

  • Select the data engineering tools that fit your requirements and existing systems.
  • Use flexible cloud-native services and rely on proven DataOps practices to continuously improve your processes and drive innovation.

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