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Overview
In the contemporary landscape, data serves as the core element of decision-making, acting as the cornerstone upon which organizations construct their strategies, make informed decisions, and gauge their achievements. At Cloudxcel, we recognize the pivotal role of data strategy and offer an all-encompassing data foundations service tailored to assist public sector organizations in evolving into more data-driven entities.
Our extensive range of services is designed to empower you in mastering data management within your organization, fostering a culture where every team member can contribute to enhanced decision-making. This initiative lays the groundwork for cultivating a data-centric environment. To facilitate effective decision-making, data must be easily accessible, well-understood, and trustworthy, and these are the outcomes we strive to help you achieve.
Whether you’re initiating your initial data strategy, commencing a targeted project to enhance data quality, or conceptualizing a program to instill a data culture within your organization, we collaborate with you to establish robust data foundations. Our objective is to assist you in building the necessary data infrastructure to support the transformative changes you seek.
Our Data Foundation Services
Constructing an intelligent data foundation is a pivotal stride towards transforming into a thoroughly modern, data-driven organization. This entails crafting a well-organized environment where data is easily accessible, comprehensible, reliable, and any subpar data can be identified and rectified. Here’s our step-by-step guidance through this process:
- Data Maturity Assessment: Begin by comprehending your existing data capabilities through a data maturity assessment. Evaluate your organization’s current data utilization and pinpoint opportunities for enhancement. Assess your data infrastructure, data processing practices, data literacy levels, and the prevailing data culture. This baseline assessment aids in gauging progress and identifying areas of focus.
- Data Discovery: Following the data maturity assessment, proceed to data discovery. Employ automated tools like Microsoft Purview to create a comprehensive, current map of your data landscape.Identify data locations, types, and usage, incorporating sensitive data classification and end-to-end data lineage to achieve a comprehensive understanding of your present data assets.
- Data Strategy Development: Armed with insights into your data landscape, collaborate to formulate a data strategy. This strategic framework delineates how your organization will leverage data to fulfill its objectives. Include plans for enhancing data quality, integrating data sources, implementing robust data governance, and fostering data literacy. The strategy outlines how data will steer decision-making and generate novel opportunities.
- Implementation: With a well-defined data strategy, move on to implementation. Establish the requisite people, processes, and tools for effective data management and utilization. Design and implement data governance frameworks, enhance data quality, and provide data literacy training. Select and implement suitable data management tools, like Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud, to align with your data strategy.
- Continuous Improvement: Recognize that building a data foundation is an ongoing process. Set up processes for monitoring and enhancing data security, quality, and governance. Foster continuous improvement by developing data skills, staying abreast of the latest data analytics tools, and ensuring the resilience and efficacy of your data foundation over time.
Tools of Speciality
Our Approach
Discover
Let’s kick off transformative change by connecting with your people, understanding their needs, and delving into the fabric of your organization. In our exploration phase, we’ll establish a shared vision, set objectives, and craft a stakeholder engagement plan. Evaluating your organization’s data maturity, we’ll baseline current capabilities and gauge the levels of data literacy across teams. Our user researchers will assist in building a backlog of use cases, forming the bedrock for change, and sketching a roadmap that resonates with stakeholders.
Design
Crafting an effective program design is pivotal for reshaping your data landscape in the long run. Building on our research, we’ll collaborate with your executives, management, and users to shape your data strategy. Together, we’ll sculpt an organizational design that empowers your journey from A to B, infusing user research at the core of change. Working in tandem, we’ll create a practical implementation plan, finely tuned to navigate challenges and aligned with your organizational capacity and appetite for change. Sustainability is key, and our approach ensures governance and reporting that substantiates the value we bring to your board.
Execute
We’re in this transformation together. Our team of versatile data experts will join forces with your team, enhancing and expanding their capabilities. Together, we’ll transition to your envisioned organizational design, embracing agile methodologies and user-centered design. As one united team, we’ll engage in ceremonies like Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, and Retrospectives. Utilizing these sessions, you’ll tackle prioritized use cases from the backlog, acquire new skills through hands-on experience, and demonstrate the value of iterative development to users and stakeholders.
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Now, it’s time for your team to spread their wings and leverage their new data foundations to consistently deliver value to the business. While we step back, our support remains just a call away. Our collaborative partnership ensures seamless knowledge transfer throughout our engagement, avoiding hurried handover meetings and extensive end-of-project documents. In this final phase, we’ll focus on actively incorporating feedback from users and stakeholders to refine your tools and processes. Any remaining training needs will be addressed, ensuring your teams are fully equipped to drive the sustained improvements necessary for a truly data-driven organization.