The core capability of accelerating enterprise data application innovation flexibility

When enterprises build data applications , Often encounter business departments and IT department , There are some conflicts in terms of core objectives .IT The Department is more focused on stability 、 Repeatability 、 Efficiency and operational risk management , The business unit is more focused on speed 、 agility 、 Flexibility and business risk .

IT The team is responsible for adopting appropriate security and recoverability practices , Realize technology deployment and enterprise data management with minimum risk （ At the same time, it meets the requirements of cost control ）.

The business department is responsible for achieving the objectives of enterprise development and operation with measurable indicators , Such as the income growth rate obtained within the specified cycle . These goals are sometimes achieved through specific projects , These projects need data analysis to measure success , Such as large screen display 、 cockpit 、 Analysis Kanban 、 machine learning 、 Deep learning and other technologies . In many projects , It was speculative at first , That is, a certain degree of exploration and prediction is required to define business and technical requirements .

But the paradox is ,IT The requirements of the Department are very clear , So as to ensure the corresponding support for new business planning data and technical capabilities , meanwhile IT The Department must also consider that the new business capability will not adversely affect any existing processes running in production . Therefore, if the business department cannot identify the requirements of the new business scenario , that IT How can the department ensure the effect ？

In most cases , The business unit is unable to provide all clear needs in a timely manner , Therefore, the business department needs some business exploration process . And in their exploration , Constantly verify or overturn some business assumptions put forward before , And decide on the continuation of business activities or stop loss in time . The business department hopes to try and make mistakes as soon as possible , Then start testing another method 、 Even different business scenarios .

When business units create valuable and repeatable analysis processes / When it comes to indicators , We call it “ Repeatable analysis ”. The advantage is that these analyses can meet clearly defined needs ; But the downside is that it is written and run in a sandbox . This is the time , The business unit wants to IT The department moves it to the production environment , Or put it directly into the production environment , The focus of the business is likely to have begun to prepare for the next analysis scenario , The conflict began .

Recognize this conflict , It can help us understand this problem more comprehensively . None of them is wrong , And both of them are focused on achieving their goals . In our view , Their conflict is deadlocked , But there are still solutions .

flexibility

Based on self-help analysis ability, state , Choose the most appropriate software resources （BI Tools 、 Development language and intelligent technology ） The ability of , Accelerate user insight 、 And minimize operational work .

Implement tools while resolving conflicts 、 Flexibility of language and knowledge

Business and IT Departments have different needs . When IT When the Department can help the enterprise run in a self-service way and equipped with appropriate tools , Enterprises can innovate faster to find new insights . When many business users learn that learning and using the latest tool languages and databases will improve their ability to achieve performance , They all accepted the idea . Business users sometimes want more freedom and flexibility , But not always understand the impact of flexibility on the stability of the production environment . Usually , Business users want to use the latest version of the tool , and IT Departments want to ensure that a stable, tested version is used in the production environment , Prevent unexpected interruption or failure report .

IT The key responsibility of the Department is to use evaluation tools 、 Language and library to lay a stable foundation , Ensure that these tools are the best tools to meet business needs .IT Ensure that these components are strategic to business needs , And can carry out long-term feasible 、 Cost effective maintenance .

IT Departments also need to rationalize the technical implementation of the deployment production environment , Ensure consistent product version control 、 The technical architecture can support 、 Disaster recovery and overall manageability . The bottom line is ： A key IT Function can support business , And through long-term system availability 、 Ensure that the needs of all business users are met .

Business needs	IT demand
1、 Use all kinds of BI Tools , development language , Intelligent technology for analysis ; 2、 Improve efficiency by self-help ; 3、 Formal and customized training .	1、 Ensure that the production and exploration environment is accessible , sustainable , Scalable and maintainable ; 2、 Assess availability , cost , Implementation route , And effectively support the production workload Technology .

Recommendations

To ensure flexibility without confusion , We suggest business and IT Listen to the following suggestions at the same time ：

IT Attention of the Department ：

1、IT Departments need to study and build authorization analysis tools that can provide support in the production environment 、 Knowledge and programmable language . This work should be carried out in collaboration with the business , To ensure that business needs are met .

2、IT Responsible for deploying sandbox data and analysis applications to the production environment , Operationalization .

3、 Whoever initiated the introduction of new technology ,IT We should participate as early as possible and even take the initiative to evaluate accordingly .

4、 Cooperation based on user center , Provide technical training support IT.

Attention of business department ：

1、 As soon as possible with IT cooperation , Participate in the technical implementation of big data analysis and application , To speed up the assessment process .

2、 The establishment is based on user centered , To collaborate 、 And recommend self-service training materials .

3、 Use production authorization technology as much as possible , To speed up the IT The ability of the Department to apply the analysis to production .

4、 When choosing unauthorized Technology , At the discretion of the business party , however , The business party shall take IT Side suggestions . If the business unit does not adopt the recommendation , that IT The operationalization of the Department may take longer , Or you may need to start over .

5、 Allow business users to put their own tools 、 Bring languages and libraries into your own sandbox , But it must be clear that it can only be used for exploratory experiments , And the generated analysis cannot be directly deployed in the production environment .

Flexibility is a key step in big data application innovation , It enables users to use a variety of modern tools to meet their analysis needs .

UFIDA Data Center , Provide the core competence of enterprise data application innovation - flexibility .

Technology base based on data lake , Provide fast service for enterprises , Agile data integration , Storage , Ability to calculate . At the same time, based on the data factory, it brings all-round data governance to the enterprise , Application development capabilities . by IT department ( Big data center ) Provide all-round data operation capability , At the same time, with the help of intelligent analysis, it provides flexible support for the business exploration of the business department , Business units and IT Problems faced by the construction process of the Department .