This document discusses maintaining effective data governance during periods of rapid change. It outlines how hypercompetition, regulations, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving changes to working practices, innovation needs, data analytics, and business systems. This impacts data governance initiatives. The document advocates modeling data to understand an organization's information, and using this to document, design, and govern data assets. It presents IDERA's data modeling tools as providing a unified ecosystem for various roles to collaborate on evolving operational and analytical landscapes through a well-governed approach.

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Maintaining Data Governance During
Rapidly Changing Conditions

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Where We Are Now
Hypercompetition
Regulations
The Pandemic

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What’s the Impact
Changing working practices
Need for innovation
Increased regulation
Distributed networks
Increased use of the cloud
Data analytics
Data governance initiatives
Changes to business systems

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What Do We Need To Do With Our Data
▪ Knowledge about our data
• What information is important to the organization
• What is the approved definition of this information
• How is this information calculated
• How is this information structured
• Who owns this information
• What rules apply to this information
• Where is this information stored as data
• Where is this data moving
• Are we following the rules
• What is the quality of the data

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Modeling Provides the Answers
▪ We need to create an understanding of the information of the
organization and then use it to document, design and govern data
assets that contains that information
Order Product
Employee Address
Customer Database
Flat
File
Document
Information Data

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The Traditional World of Data Modeling
▪ Data architects manage design changes and documentation of data
assets. Communicate between business consumers and the technical
world.
Database
Flat
File
Document
Information Data
Traditional Logical Data Models
Company
• Company Name
• VAT Number
• Company Identifier
Vendor Client
• Credit Rating
Order
• Order Number
CMPY
• CMPY)NME
• VAT_NUM
• CMP_ID
VNDR CLNT
• CLNT_RTNG
ORDR
• ORDR_NUM
Traditional Physical Data Models
Data
Architect
DBAData
Analyst
Data
Movement
Engineers
Software
Engineers
Business
Analysts

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The New World of Data Governance
▪ Building an understanding of the information required by the business,
along with its rules and where it exists
Database
Flat
File
Document
Information Data
Business Glossary
Is type ofCompany
BUSINESS TERM
Company Name
BUSINESS TERM
VAT Number
BUSINESS TERM
Vendor
BUSINESS TERM
Company Identifier
BUSINESS TERM
Client
BUSINESS TERM
Order
BUSINESS TERM
Credit Rating
BUSINESS TERM
Order Number
BUSINESS TERM
Is attribute of
Is attribute of
Relates to
Is attribute of
Data Catalog
Data
Owners
Data
Stewards
Data
Custodians
Data
Quality
Analysts

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Uniting the Management of Information and Data Assets
▪ ER/Studio creates an understanding of the information of the
organization and then uses it to document and design data assets that
contains that information.
▪ The information model has been traditionally held in logical data models
by data architecture teams but now data governance teams manage this
model within a business glossary and data catalog.
▪ We connect these worlds.

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Uniting the Management of Information and Data Assets
Database
Flat
File
Document
Information Data
Traditional Logical Data Models
Business Glossary
Is type ofCompany
BUSINESS TERM
Company Name
BUSINESS TERM
VAT Number
BUSINESS TERM
Vendor
BUSINESS TERM
Company Identifier
BUSINESS TERM
Client
BUSINESS TERM
Order
BUSINESS TERM
Credit Rating
BUSINESS TERM
Order Number
BUSINESS TERM
Is attribute of
Is attribute of
relates to
Is attribute of
Company
• Company Name
• VAT Number
• Company Identifier
Vendor Client
• Credit Rating
Order
• Order Number
CMPY
• CMPY)NME
• VAT_NUM
• CMP_ID
VNDR CLNT
• CLNT_RTNG
ORDR
• ORDR_NUM

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Idera, Inc. - Producing a Unified Ecosystem of Information
Catalog of
Data Assets
Logical Data
Models
Business
Glossary
• Corporate Logical Data Model
• Canonical Model
• Project Level Data Models
• Data Asset Inventory
• Physical Data Models
• Data Lineage
• Glossaries
• Business Terms
• Data Stewards
• Business Rules
Data
Owners
Data
Stewards
DBA
Data
Analyst
Data
Movement
Engineers
Software
Engineers
Business
Analysts
Data
Scientists
Data
Architects

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ER/Studio Primary Use Cases
▪ Design a new database
▪ Understand an existing database
▪ Consolidate some databases
▪ Migrate a database to a new technology
▪ Understand an existing data warehouse
▪ Design a data warehouse
▪ Govern our data
• Manage a business glossary
• Manage a data catalog
• Collaboration on data
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ER/Studio Core Capabilities
Data Architect Team Server Repository Team Server Core
Data
Modelers
Data
Architects
Business Analysts
Data Stewards
Conceptual Data Modelling
Logical Data Modelling
Physical Data Modelling
Model Transformation
Reverse Engineering
Native Code Generation
Compare and Merge
Change Management
Data Movement Design
Model Sharing
Model Versioning
Check In / Check Out
Model Publishing
Business Glossary
Data Catalog
Reporting and Analysis
Collaboration
Subscription
Software Engineers
Data Owners
Data Owners
DBAs
Data Movement Engineers
Generic
API
Purpose
Built
Integration

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ER/Studio Data Architect

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Logical Data Model

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Logical to Physical Model Generation
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Snowflake is now available as a target database platform.
ER/Studio converts logical (ANSI) datatypes to Snowflake.

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Compare & Merge Tool
DDL Script

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ER/Studio Team Server

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Terms

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Descriptions

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Related Terms

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Related ER Objects

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Summary
▪ A unified ecosystem for data that allows
a wide range of roles to collaborate in
changing a well governed operational
landscape and curated warehouse to
reduce risk and improve efficiency
Data
Architecture
Data
Governance
Data
Analysis

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THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
jamie.knowles@idera.com

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Idera, Inc.’s Data Fabric
Database
Load
Data
Warehouse
Foundation
(Staging)
End User
(Analytical)
ELTELTELT
Operational
Data
Flat
Files
BI Report
BI
Tools
ER/Studio
Aqua Data Studio
Manual
Design
&Build
ER/Studio
Aqua Data Studio
WhereScape
Automated
Design
&Build