It is becoming evident that data-driven firms struggle to keep up with all of their corporate data and manage it strategically. Despite having vast amounts of data at our disposal, we are still unable to provide cost-effective quality healthcare to the elderly; too many businesses are failing to deliver great multi-channel customer experiences, and they are unable to ensure data is governed and protected to comply with a plethora of global industry and data privacy regulations.
Why aren’t more data-driven innovations being delivered by businesses? One reason is that many businesses have yet to find out how to operationalize their data platforms at the enterprise level.
Scale DataOps Services Without Sacrificing Speed and Quality
Many data executives want to increase data quality and offer more significant insights from their data faster. They understand the need to scale their data programs without losing speed or quality.
The solution is DataOps, a new approach to operations (think DevOps for data). DataOps services extend the ideas of DevOps to the realm of data, allowing you to operationalize your data platform. DataOps is also a pillar of System Thinking.
Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment are the three pillars of DevOps. How might these ideas be extended from the realm of application software to the world of data pipelines and data-driven apps? Let’s take a close look at these ideas.
Continuous Integration – Data Discovery, Integration, and Preparation
This process is concerned with how data engineers integrate, prepare, cleanse, master, and release new data sources and data pipelines in a sustainable and automated manner. When data scientists and data analysts to use AI/ML-powered data catalog and prep tools to automate data discovery and curation, facilitate search, recommend transformations, and auto-provision data and data pipeline specifications, data engineers can get up and running quickly. Data engineers may transform these data pipelines into real-time streams that feed predictive analytic algorithms like those used for in-the-moment client engagement using streaming and change-data-capture (CDC) technologies.
Data engineers must leverage metadata-driven development tools to future-proof data pipelines as new, faster processing frameworks and technologies emerge, especially in the cloud. Furthermore, AI-powered features such as intelligent structure detection and dynamic templates safeguard your data pipelines as data sources change. It implies you can operate a data pipeline anywhere, on-premises or in the cloud (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google).
Continuous Delivery – Distribute Trusted Data Throughout Your Organization
This level is focused on operationalizing data governance across your organization so that all of your consuming apps use high-quality data. Data governance democratizes and liberates data, ensuring that data distributed across the company is trustworthy, safe, protected, and policy-compliant. Data curation continues at this level, and data is given collaboratively across all stakeholders (e.g., data engineers, data scientists, analysts, data stewards, data governance professionals, InfoSec analysts, etc.). Data scientists, for example, may rapidly cycle through the construction and validation of predictive analytic models when reliable data is readily available. It is vital to ensure that data quality criteria and masking are applied to comply with data governance regulations during development, testing, and AI model training to guarantee that analytic algorithms and machine learning models offer favorable business outcomes. Only a single and intelligent data platform that unifies data governance, data cataloging, data quality, and data privacy ensures that all data is trusted and secured as it flows across the company.
AI/ML that augments human expertise and cooperation aids in the execution of enterprise-scale data governance. AI/ML can automate the mapping of business concepts to real data sets and particular data governance regulations. In the near future, AI/ML will comb through rules and automatically build data governance standards, reducing the risk associated with regulatory compliance even more.
Continuous Deployment — Make new, high-quality data available to all users on a regular basis.
At this point, you’re allowing business self-service and making reliable data available to a broad range of users within your organization. Every modification that passes through all phases of your data pipeline development is delivered to the consuming apps used by analysts and line-of-business (LOB) users using this method. Many company tasks, including customer service, sales, e-commerce, fraud detection, supply chain management, and others, now rely on data-driven applications. This suggests that the company anticipates faster access to new data. This is best accomplished using scale-out and microservices-based architectures, which are frequently deployed on the cloud for agility and flexibility. AI and ML play an essential role in monitoring and controlling data pipelines, ensuring that they operate constantly and are optimized for performance and capacity usage.
Clairvoyant offers your organization the ability to make decisions based on your undervalued data. Contact Clairvoyant’s industry experts here to learn more about DataOps services and how your organizational data can benefit from a streamlined data engineering approach.
