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Managing Data Sprawl with Data
Catalogs for Self-Service
Wayne Eckerson
Principal Consultant
Eckerson Group

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Why Self Service?
IT DepartmentBusiness
“You’re too slow, too
expensive, and never
deliver what I want.”
“You can’t make up
your mind, keep adding
features, and never see
the big picture.”
Casual User: “Just
forget it.”
Power User: “Just give
me a data dump.”
BU Leader: “We’ll do it
ourselves.”
“I’d rather be doing
something else than
taking your order.”
“You’ll come crawling
back to us soon.”
IT Dependency

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Self Service to the Rescue!
Not so fast!
• No backlogs and waiting
• Better tools
• Faster time to insight
IT Department
• Happy users
• Offload reports
• Focus on data
Business Users

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Downsides
• Too many reports
• Duplicate reports
• Conflicting data
• Users don’t trust reports
• Data extract hell
NO STANDARDS OR GOVERNANCE
A TOWER OF BABEL

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DATA FABRIC
- Data access
- Data portability
- Data security
- “Data as a service”
Self-Service Dimensions
SELF
SERVICE
ANALYTICS
Reporting/
Dashboards
Visual
Analysis
Data
Integration
Advanced
Analytics
Tableau
Qlik
Looker
Power BI
Etc.
Data Preparation
Trifacta
Paxata
Alteryx
Data Catalog
Waterline
Alation
Informatica
DataRobot
Dataiku
Rapid Miner
Alteryx
Domo
Dundas
Yellowfin
Incumbents
Self-
Service
Analytics
Embedded
Jinfonet
Logi Analytics
Tibco Jaspersoft

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The Secret of Self Service
One size
does not
fit all!

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Roles
60% of employees
Data Consumers Data Explorers
30% of employees
8% of employees
Data Analysts
CASUAL USERS
POWER USERS
Data Scientists
2% of employees
SILVER
SERVICE
SELF
SERVICE
TopDownBottomUp

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Power User Workflow
Find
Data
Prepare
Data
Analyze
Data
Visualize
Data
Publish
Data
Data Catalog Data Prep Data Visualization

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DATA
FABRIC
Data Analyst Workbench
Data
Catalog
Data
Prep
Data
Viz
Benefits
- No context switching
- Uniform GUI
- Data sharing
Challenges
- Multiple tools
- Standards
- Curation
Approaches
- All-in-One
- Best of Breed
Recommendation
- Evaluate openness,
integrations, and partners
- Apply governance to
avoid sprawl

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Your Mission
Governance
Standards
Architecture
Operations
Centralization
Self-Service
Speed
Agility
Innovation
Decentralization
Create a data-
driven enterprise
that balances
dueling
imperatives.
Create a data-driven
organization that
balances dueling
imperatives.

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Wayne Eckerson
• 25+ year thought leader in data and analytics
• Sought-after speaker and consultant
• President, Eckerson Group
• Former director of research at TDWI
• Author of hundreds of articles and reports
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Management
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