Data Transformation
Unlocking data for fact-based decision making
Data is a strategic asset, but most organizations struggle to unlock its full potential. Siloed systems, inconsistent data quality, various regulations, and legacy platforms make it difficult to extract meaningful insights. It not only slows down decision-making and innovation but can even lead to wrong results. Choosing the right initiatives to undertake, and investments to make, while balancing short-term business stakeholder needs with a future-proof vision is a challenging task.
Our Data Transformation practice provides clarity in the complexity of your data landscape, to create a pragmatic way forward. We tailor our advice to your situation: whether it is an old-school data warehouse, a modern cloud-based data lake or a bunch of excels & access databases (or, most likely, a combination of all of the above). We are not here to sell a tool, but work out impactful solutions consisting of processes, people and tools, together with your organization.
Roadmaps, architectures and governance that work
We support your organization in setting up the right data strategy that works for you. Each assignment considers the organization’s structure and maturity, technological legacy, business reality and data ambitions.
Data Roadmaps
- Capture and prioritize business demands in a workable 2-3y roadmap,
balancing urgency with value and feasibility. - Combine with technical foundations to safeguard a future-proof platform
Data Architectures
- Design modern fit-for-purpose architectures based on your needs and IT landscape,
instead of pushing specific technologies or hyped trends - Include technical guardrails to allow for practical governance & security
- Go deep in the details to identify data domains, enumerate data products,
and transform these concepts into usable data sets.
Data Governance
- Co-create fitting governance principles that serve your data strategy in a pragmatic way,
valuing actionable initiatives above generic frameworks - Lead by doing, including operational support where needed
Data Visualizations & Analytics
- Check out our data visualization & insight practice, as well as our AI practice
Why Addestino?
A unique methodology, proven to work
Build helicopter view of data landscape, allowing a factualized transformation
considering several dimensions: (shadow) IT, organization, data governance, ....
Get Business, IT and Data teams to speak the same language and share goals
relying on multi-disciplinary consultants: strong technical and business expertise
Balancing short-term business demands with future-proof enablers
co-creating and delivering a roadmap together with the teams: business, IT & data
Define and implement a data mesh strategy for a renowned public financial institution
- Roll-out of a data mesh architecture on top of Data Bricks in Microsoft Azure
- Defining standardized methodologies for creation of data products
- Creating a federated data governance model across silos and sourcing supporting tools
Remodeling & migration of legacy data environments, towards new on-prem or cloud environments
- Scoping project, defining architecture, right-sizing team, defining measurable milestones
- De-risking migrations by implementing small iterations (no big-bang) and early go-lives
- Leading the way: doing thorough analyses and professionalizing development (CI/CD, …)
Formalizing a central data center-of-excellence to create real business value in a repeatable manner
- Creating a 2 y roadmap, capturing 100+ business demands
- Structuring the intake process and de-risking delivery by using prototyping
- Performing roadshows to create awareness, and setting up the correct governance
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