Transcript Building A Distributed Data Supply Chain Is More

Beyond Workload Automation
Effective Management of your Enterprise Data Supply Chain
David Ainsworth
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Your Business Runs on Data
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Taking Actions on Data
The Process of Day-to-day business:
Orders
Manufacturing
Billing
Marketing
Procurement
Sales
Logistics
Etc..
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Turning Data into Information
Analytics – Your data has value to your business:
Data Warehouse
Business Intelligence
Big Data
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Processing Data is Mission Critical
✓
Everything your business does involves processing
data:
• Accurately
• Quickly
• Consistently
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The Enterprise Data Supply Chain
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The Enterprise Data Supply Chain
"Building A Distributed Data Supply
Chain Is More Important Than Big Data"
www.forbes.com
"It’s time to start treating your data less
as a warehouse and more as a supply
chain"
What The Industry
Thinks
www.redhat.com
"Creating and managing a fully
integrated enterprise data supply chain
is one of the six key IT trends identified
in Accenture's 2014 Technology Vision”
www.accenture.com
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Data Moving Everywhere
• You process orders from
customers
• You share data with business
partners
• Modern and Legacy
application share data to
make your business run
• You feed your data
warehouse or “big data”
initiative
Customers
Data
Warehouse
Applications
Legacy
Partners
Web
• Multiple Sources and
Destinations
• Some Internal, Some External
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Logistics
• Data doesn’t just get
transferred between these
sources
• It get extracted, tranformed,
loaded and any number of
other processes happen
• This is known as the “Data
Supply Chain”
Customers
Data
Warehouse
Applications
“Magic
Happens”
Legacy
Partners
Web
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Data Supply Chain Example
Start
EDI
EDI
Parsing
Mapping
DB Load
Loading
Process
Process
Status
Extract
DW
File
Transfer
Report
Extract
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EDI File Arrives – Moved to Application server
•
ETL Mapping and Database Extracts are performed
•
Data Warehouse / Big Data / BI extracts are performed
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Data is applied to relevant application
•
Results extracted and returned to customer
Stop
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Data Supply Chain Example
Start
EDI
EDI
Parsing
Report
Extract
•
B2B / File Transfer
•
EDI / ETL
•
Database
•
Data Warehouse
•
Application
Mapping
DB Load
Process
Status
Extract
DW
File
Transfer
Stop
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Your Business Runs on Data
Your data is distributed across multiple
platforms, operating systems, and
applications
Complex processes need to be coordinated
between multiple silos
No one is looking at the big picture
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Drawbacks of Ineffective Management
No Governance
Difficult to Scale or Onboard new Business
Spiralling Costs
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A Strategy for Effective Management
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Common Problems
• “We lose track of our data”
• “Our data flow stopped, we don’t know
where or why”
• “It takes hours to backtrack and work out
what happened”
• “Everyone blames someone else”
• “Five or six teams get involved in the triage”
• “Our customers know before we do”
• “Delays costs us credibility with the
business”
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Benefits of Effective Management
1
2
Governance
• Accountabiliy
• Visibility
• Repeatability
Scalablility
• Handle Growth with Ease
• More Predictable Cost Base
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The time to repair the roof
is when the sun is shining
-John F. Kennedy
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Stonebranch - The Product Family
Universal Automation Center
Universal
Controller
Orchestrates your
Data Supply Chain
and Provides Real
Time Operational
Intelligence
Universal
Agent
Integrates your
Platforms, Operating
Systems, and
Applications
Universal
Data Mover
Integrates your
Internal File Movement
with Workload
Automation
Universal
Data Mover B2B
Manages File
Transfers with your
Partners, Suppliers,
and Customers
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Real-Time Operational Intelligence
Custom Dashboards
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Real-Time Operational Intelligence
One Version of the “Truth”
Operational or Business Focus
Stakeholders see their KPIs
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Real-Time Operational Intelligence
Current and Historical Activity
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Real-Time Opserational Intelligence
One Version of the “Truth”
Operational or Business Focus
Stakeholders see their KPIs
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Real-Time Operational Intelligence
Easy to Understand Process
Flows
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Real-Time Opserational Intelligence
One Version of the “Truth”
Operational or Business Focus
Stakeholders see their KPIs
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Plan
Data Supply Chain Automation Expertise
Transition
Service
Run
Build
Consulting
Implementation
Continuing
Education
Upgrading/Maint
aining
Project
Management
Stonebranch = Return on Automation
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Questions & Answers
Q.
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Thank You!
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