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New and Improved SDLC
Building data management rigor
into every IT project
Baseline’s Data Management Launch service provides
you with the tactics necessary to improve day-to-day data
management as part of every new application and IT project.
This service enables you to incorporate data management
processes into an existing System Development Lifecycle
(SDLC), define job functions, and formalize data governance.
Data Management Launch not only prescribes improvements
to existing data management processes—it diagnoses
opportunities to incorporate these processes into regular
implementation activities. Often, this means a combination
of “top down”—establishing data governance
as an ongoing framework—as well as “bottom up”—building
data management activities into all new application and
system releases.
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» The Baseline Approach
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» Why Baseline
Your
Challenges
- Investing in your data asset comparable
to other corporate assets
- Eliminating the opportunity cost of
not delivering data to the business
- Delivering enterprise data in a sustainable
and repeatable way
- Determing who owns the data—and
the problems
- Data management—a systems development
practice, not an afterthought
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The
Problem
Laying the groundwork to manage
data as a corporate asset
Baseline often encounters companies who are mature in their
data warehouse and BI capabilities, but less so when it
comes to data management.
As CRM, ERP, and operational systems increasingly demand
more data from more sources, your problem becomes less and
less about the platform or the packaged application, and
more about the processes for managing data.
Your challenge is more than deploying software. It’s
about communicating what data management means within the
context of your company’s strategies and culture,
and prescribing the tactics for delivering data across your
enterprise in a sustainable and repeatable way. It’s
about institutionalizing data management activities and
integrating them into new and existing project work.
If you’re encountering any of the situations below,
then you’re ready to improve enterprise data management:
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- Data is an afterthought for many new
systems, resulting in rework, throw-away, or over investment.
- High-profile systems are deemed failures
due to bad data.
- No one understands what data stewardship
means—or what it entails.
- Management needs “ammunition”
to fund a data management effort.
- A major regulatory compliance or customer-focused
initiative is looming on the horizon.
- Loose efforts around data governance,
data stewardship, data quality, and data administration
need to be connected and formalized.
Adding Data Management Activities
to the SDLC Process
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The
Baseline Approach
Incremental tactical steps to
incorporate data management as part of your SDLC
Baseline believes that a rigorous, culture-specific, and
deliberate process to integrating data management as part
of the SDLC is the best way to make data management a sustained
development practice. This involves not only an assessment
of a company’s existing development methods, but understanding
specific business opportunities and pending strategic initiatives
that mandate clean, integrated information for successful
delivery.
The Data Management Launch service provides the foundation
for rolling out data management as part of every new project
effort. It examines your existing development processes
and determines the gaps in data management. It delivers
a set of recommended improvements, followed by a roadmap
of data deployment initiatives that correspond to business
needs.
Data Management Launch involves five key areas of analysis:
- Development and Release Processes
- Data Management Functions
- Requirements Processes
- Data Management Organizations and
Job Roles
- Existing Systems of Record
- Management Buy-in and Culture Support
At the conclusion of a Data Management Launch engagement,
you will have a set of moving forward recommendations, a
new deployment lifecycle, discrete descriptions of functional
roles, and a roadmap for rolling out formalized data management
and governance processes.
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Your Value
Economies of scale and development
cost savings
The Data Management Launch service helps IT organizations
get a data management function off the drawing board and
into place. It can establish data as a critical success
factor for new or high-profile applications. It provides
proof that good data management establishes economies of
scale and development cost savings for IT systems development
and maintenance projects.
An incremental approach to data management, as advocated
by Data Management Launch, renders data management adoption
more palatable to senior executives and business users who
share funding of data provisioning for key applications.
The service cements the notion that data management is not
just a data warehouse or CRM activity, but that it should
be part of every new development and release effort.
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Why Baseline
Helping smart companies make data
management a sustained development practice
Baseline understands that an organization’s data
supply chain mandates not only executive oversight, but
ongoing processes and accountability metrics. In our data
delivery and integration projects, we outline the functions
necessary to ensure data quality, ownership, and ongoing
governance are built into the integrated data you deploy
to the business in a controlled and sustainable way.
Baseline’s projects begin and end with information—its
ownership and its oversight are critical pieces to your
company’s information strategy.
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