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This document provides an overview of Info-Tech Research Group's "Select Your Data Platform" blueprint to help organizations design the optimal data management platform. The blueprint uses a holistic approach considering business goals, current technologies, and best practices to identify gaps and select software to build an evolutionary platform. It involves assessing the current environment, selecting a reference architecture pattern, and matching capabilities to software features to create a vendor shortlist. The blueprint delivers architecture patterns, needs assessments, and recommendations to minimize costs while enabling required data management capabilities.

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It Select Your Data Platform Executive Brief

This document provides an overview of Info-Tech Research Group's "Select Your Data Platform" blueprint to help organizations design the optimal data management platform. The blueprint uses a holistic approach considering business goals, current technologies, and best practices to identify gaps and select software to build an evolutionary platform. It involves assessing the current environment, selecting a reference architecture pattern, and matching capabilities to software features to create a vendor shortlist. The blueprint delivers architecture patterns, needs assessments, and recommendations to minimize costs while enabling required data management capabilities.

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Select Your Data Platform

Make complex tasks simple by applying


proven methodology.

EXECUTIVE BRIEF

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Analyst
Perspective A data platform includes many components. The right composition reflects
Data Platform Patterns the data management capabilities required by the organization – and every
organization has own priorities and particularities. How do you translate
strategy goals into data management capabilities? How do you design the
right data platform to enable these capabilities? What are the best practices
in architectural design?
Technology enablement also has variability: Many vendors provide
overlapping capabilities, so how do you avoid buying the same functionality
twice and, at the same time, avoid leaving gaps?
This Select Your Data Platform blueprint helps answer the above questions.
It’s based on architectural best practices while accommodating the
Igor Ikonnikov Rajesh Parab
organization’s specific needs and goals and supporting an evolutionary
Research Director, Research Director, platform development.
Data and Analytics Data and Analytics

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Executive Summary
Your Challenge Common Obstacles Info-Tech’s Approach
Every organization needs a data management (DM) • Software vendors are interested in getting as large a • Use a holistic approach.
platform that enables the DM capabilities required. footprint as possible.
• Understand your goals and priorities.
However, this could be a daunting task because:
• Some products from different categories offer the
• Picture your target-state architecture.
• Every organization has a unique set of requirements same functionalities.
for a DM platform. • Identify your current technology coverage.
• Some products are just not compatible.
• Software products are difficult to compare because • Select the software covering the gaps in technology
• The same functional capabilities can be found in
every vendor provides a unique set of features. enablement based on feature/functional
products with quite different price ranges.
enablement descriptions as well as vendor and
deployment preferences.

Info-Tech Insight
Understand your current environment and use proven reference architecture patterns to expedite building the data management platform that matches your needs.

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Insights Technology requirements start with the business goals.

Make complex
tasks simple
by applying Data platform selection should be based on common best
proven practices and, at the same time, be optimized for the
methodology. organization’s specific needs and goals and support an
evolutionary platform development.

What is best for one organization may be totally


unacceptable for another – all for very valid reasons.

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Blueprint benefits

IT Benefits Business Benefits

• Use data architecture patterns to help select the target data • Minimize expense and effort while maximizing data management
platform. enablement.
• Minimize overlapping functionalities across the set of technologies • Choose technology that fits the desired business outcomes.
comprising your data platform.
• Follow best practices in technology enablement rather than following
• Ensure optimal architectural technology compatibility. technology hypes.

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Info-Tech’s methodology for Selecting Your
Data Platform

Select Your Data Platform

1. Assess your current environment.


Steps 2. Find the right reference architecture pattern.
3. Match identified capabilities with software features.

• Data environment required for architecture pattern selection.


Outcomes • Selected reference architecture pattern tailored to your organization.
• Shortlist of vendors covering all the capabilities required for your data platform.

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Key deliverables Blueprint deliverables
Each step of this blueprint is accompanied by supporting
deliverables to help you accomplish your goals:
This blueprint will
generate the following
Reference
outputs: Select Your Data Platform
Architecture Pattern
Assessment
suited for your data
environment
• Data platform
environment needs
• Reference architecture
pattern based on
organization’s current
environment
• Shortlist of vendors

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Guided Implementation A Guided
What does a typical GI on this topic look like? Implementation
(GI) is a series
of calls with an
Select Your Data Platform
Info-Tech analyst
to help implement
Call #1: Call #2: Call #4: Call #6: our best practices
Scope Assess your Download and Match identified
requirements, current customize your capabilities with in your
objectives, and environment. architecture software features. organization.
your specific pattern.
challenges with
the data Call #3: Call #5: Call #7: A typical GI is
platform. Select the Finalize your Shortlist vendors between 4 to 7
target architecture covering all the
architecture pattern based capabilities. calls over the
pattern. on Info-Tech’s course of 4 to 6
architecture
pattern. weeks.

Info-Tech
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Research Group| |9 9
Group

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