About Me:
@ A Solutions consultant and evangelist focusing on Progress
@ 12+ years of experience in Enterprise solutions and Project management
@ Big Lego Fan – Legoland in Germany
@ What are dato silos
So too an organization stores its “grain” or as we know it “information” in silos, whether in individual departments, regional offices, different channels and sometimes even in different management levels within an organisation. There is little interaction between the towers
@ About Data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eXD6dVbvxs
http://datorama.com/2016/07/06/silos-what-they-are-and-why-they-are-bad-for-your-company/
Why Silos have grown:
# Systems that are part specific division or focus on solving a unique problem – Niche in nature
# Rise of cloud based SAAS Software
# Silos tend to have limited integration capabilities – system incompatibility or API availability
# Companies are increasingly divided into disparate teams, with a responsibilities and hence ownership is restricted
# Over the course of time, Data lifecycle management plays an integral part
# prevailing sense of “too big to fail” when it comes to data silos. A lot of these problems get built up and ignored over time.
Shortfalls
# They slow you down and prevent you from making real-time data-driven decisions. No real-time data available and hence lag in decision making. The state of the digital world today necessitates moving fast and executing even faster. Data silos directly inhibit your ability to do so
# one wrong or missing piece of data could lead you down a rabbit hole on the way toward making a big decision that will dramatically affect your strategy or tactical execution. But...what if the data that led into decision was wrong or incomplete
# Contrast that with a team that has never played together, all boils down to one thing: trust ; Data silos, by virtue of their inherent characteristics, breed data distrust and limits collaborations across business units and in the enterprise
# customer success depends on your complete understanding of the customer journey and what happens at each of these touchpoints and, more importantly, what should happen.
https://www.bedrockdata.com/blog/the-danger-of-data-silos-part-1-where-do-they-come-from
https://www.bedrockdata.com/blog/the-danger-of-data-silos-part-2-how-do-they-hurt-you
http://www.simplebi.com/so-what-exactly-is-a-data-silo-and-why-is-it-a-bad-thing/
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
How do we do that without adding new stack or complex solution into the mix
New let’s look at a use case scenario
In this scenario we have - Sales data from Salesforce sales cloud and SQL data sources with order and Operations data
Each of the systems have their own BI capabilities and reporting
Note: There could other sources like unstructured data sources and some of the environments could be complex with multiple tenets or sites and database with cluster, failover option
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
Single view would be an integrated data source with realtime access
Main Talking Points for what product should contain
@ Robust support across applications and databases
@ Support for different platform options with an open pipe to ALL your data
@ 360-degree of your data (internal and external) organization
@ Standards based connectivity with choices organizations like ODATA, JDBC and ODBC
@ Optimized for application performance
@ Reduced dev costs
@ Integration capabilities via API
Let’s review Data Direct cloud (DDC) from Progress
Hosted cloud product, firewall friendly (hosted on AWS cloud)
Single interface to all types of sources
Support for Odata, JDBC and ODBC. User can interact with data via SQL
DDC is 500 times faster than out-box drivers with all CRUD and extract operations --- plays a role where are there are Quota API limits established to
Bulk operation are optimized without impacting performance
Connectors for on premise sources help unlocking ata
Lets examine high level view of DDC flow.
Left – Application and Platform and Reporting tools
Right - CRM and Marketing data sources
Bottom – On Premise data
DDC help connect all sources with any changes to existing firewall or additional hardware or VPN.
Talk about all DDC data sources
Goal is provide data as a service which can be consumed
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
How do we do that without adding new stack or complex solution into the mix
Demo:
Open Salesforce instance
Show sample reports
DDC Overview and Connectivity – Realtime data access, SQL Access, Odata support
Identify insights
Let’s look at two common scenarios
Consuming data in Excel with DDC as source
Dashboard using KendoUI
KendUI is our flagship HTML5 controls
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
How do we do that without adding new stack or complex solution into the mix
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
How do we do that without adding new stack or complex solution into the mix
Goal is to unify data across from various sources and system to present single source of view
How do we do that without adding new stack or complex solution into the mix