What does Enterprise Data Management mean to your business?

The goal of EDM is reliable data across the enterprise. The key to effective EDM is data governance. Data governance implements standard data policies across the organization. These data policies facilitate and guarantee a dependable view of the data. Reliable data makes for reliable decision-making. Proper data governance seeks to achieve the following:

  • Increase data consistency and timeliness
  • Maintain effective data security without sacrificing accessibility
  • Increase maintainability of application data
  • Mitigate risk by adopting and enforcing policies that ensure regulatory compliance
  • Improve actionable data for decision makers

How ZIA delivers on the promise of EDM

EDM Solution Briefs:

Agilent Technologies – Data Integration

Agilent Technologies is the world’s premier measurement company, delivering advanced tools for scientists, researchers, businesses and government agencies. One way customers engage the Agilent sales force by placing quotes online. The configuration of product pricing varies from region to region. The master record for the product information resides in Oracle’s ERP but quotes are delivered from a custom web application. The challenge was to integrate data from the back-end data store, departmental-level databases and the database used by the quoting application. This data integration project required implementing optimized data services that leveraged the existing business process within Agilent to ensure all quoted product information was accurate, timely and maintainable. Read more…

U.S. Navy – GIS Data Migration

The U.S. Navy manages GIS information for environmental surveys. Data residing in several regional database were to be consolidated into a central repository. Accomplishing this required securely migrating 10′s of millions of records. Migration efforts are frought with data consistency challenges and this was no exception. To meet those challenges, thorough analysis of existing data sets was needed and repeated testing of the migration process to ensure data quality. Keen understanding of Oracle performance optimization was necessary to perform the migration in the allocated window. Read more…

Agilent Technologies – Quick Quote Data Center

Agilent Technologies is the world’s premier measurement company, delivering advanced tools for scientists, researchers, businesses and government agencies. A custom quoting system had been created by Zia to enable rapid response to customer product inquiries. The volume of sales leads required a secure interface for the sales team and call centers to easily track and act upon those leads. This necessitated a custom reporting application that could: display quote histories of customers, provide regional- or division-level reporting of leads, provide a capacity for downloading or resending quotes. The implementation needs to adhere to the data standards adopted for lead generation and processing. Read more…