THE AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL ENTERPRISE- LETS MAKES IT PRACTICAL (PART 7B-DATA DRIVEN BUSINESS)

New Island Technologies
May 24, 2023
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In this series of articles, we introduced the Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE). You should read all the articles in this series to see how the ADE provides you with the framework to digitally transform your business.

In this article we will evaluate the benefits of the Data-driven Business tenet.

Data is such a huge topic that we decided to break it up over two parts – firstly focusing on data driven business at the front-end, where people interact with data through modern user interfaces and secondly, we will look at data from an automation perspective to see how automation can help you make the most of all the data across your business.

This article is that second part of Data-driven Business…where automation matters most.

Simply put, a data-driven business is a business that uses data to make decisions.

Every business is a treasure-trove of data. A data-driven business makes sure that it captures, analyses, and monetises the data assets. The result is top-line and bottom-line revenue increase. A data-driven business leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to manage complex and large data estates.

When we previously looked into automation maturity, we saw that Data Driven business is an essential component towards intelligent automation.

A data-driven business can deliver data-driven decisions, analytics-driven actions, and pattern-driven predictions.

Two key elements for a business are a well-defined Enterprise Data Architecture and an Automation Centre of Excellence when automation is governed and evolved for the entire organisation.

Good data is essential for the business to yield insights and intelligence, and automation will ensure that the business becomes more agile and predictable.

There are many articles that will call out the absolutely radical increase in the data that is generated. This is caused by the continuous growth of mobile devices and ever-increasing connected world (IoT, IIoT, IT/OT Convergence, Regulation, and everything online).

With all this data and the reliance of business operations and business decisions on this data it is important that those data pipelines keep on flowing and delivering the right data, to the right place, at the right time…always.

Technology can help you accomplish this by:

Orchestrating complex data pipelines from inter-dependant (and sometimes less obviously related) data sources from all over the business and beyond.
Driving AI and analytics engines to deliver insight and business intelligence.
Ensuring that data movement is governed and controlled and compliant with best practise and industry standards.
Protecting data privacy and keeping data secure, while in transit and when at rest.
Automating workflows to ensure visibility and control of your data pipelines with an ability to self-heal when things go wrong.
Delivering data across the business regardless of the infrastructure and data sources, whether it is Mainframe, on-premise, in the cloud – right up to the edge where IT and operational technology intersects.
Managing access and control over who can build and operate the data flows and who has access to the data. It also allows human intervention to optimally control and manage the flow of data in an always-on 24/7 world.

BMC Control-M delivers DataOps to enable your data-driven business:

BMC Control-M is a workflow automation platform that helps businesses automate their data pipelines. This can help businesses to become more data-driven by making it easier to collect, store, process, and analyse data.

This is how BMC Control-M can help businesses become more data-driven:

Automate data pipelines: BMC Control-M can automate the steps involved in data processing, such as data extraction, transformation, and loading. This can help to improve the accuracy and efficiency of data processing.

Improve data quality: BMC Control-M can help to improve data quality by checking data for errors and inconsistencies. This can help to ensure that data is accurate and reliable.

Make data more accessible: BMC Control-M can make data more accessible by providing a central repository for data. This can help users to find and access the data they need more easily.

Improve data security: BMC Control-M can help to improve data security by providing features such as data encryption and access control. This can help to protect data from unauthorised access.

Overall, BMC Control-M is a powerful tool that can help organisations to become more data-driven. By automating data pipelines, improving data quality, making data more accessible, and improving data security, BMC Control-M can help organisations to make better decisions based on data.