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Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Data-driven business is booming. The dominant, driving force in business has arguably become a driving force in our daily lives for consumers and corporations alike.We now live in an age in which data is a more valuable resource than oil, and five of the world’s most valuable companies – Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft – all deal in data. However, just acknowledging data’s value won’t do. For a business to truly benefit from its information, a change in perspective is also required. With an additional $65 million in net income ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. In light of data’s prominence in modern business, organizations need to ensure they have a strong data foundation in place.The ascent of data’s value has been as steep as it is staggering. In 2016, it was suggested that more data would be created in 2017 than in the previous 5000 years of humanity. But what’s even more shocking is that the peak still not may not even be in sight. To put its value into context, the five most valuable businesses in the world all deal in data (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Knowing where to begin business process modeling can seem impossible – you have a wealth of information spread out in front of you and no clue where to start. In our previous articles, ‘The basics of business process modeling‘ and ‘Why am I doing this?,’ we  covered the reasons why businesses may undertake business process modeling. But knowing the basics and the why is only half the battle. Should you wish to benefit from a good business process strategy, an understanding of best practices is vital.With this in mind, we spoke to two experienced business process ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Business process management’s role in utilizing knowledge is, in essence, about alignment, making sure you have the key pieces of knowledge from individual employees, departments and operations. This way, businesses can make better decisions with greater context, based on the full picture.In an earlier blog post – ‘Business Process Management Provides Invaluable Knowledge’ – we looked at not only the importance of using knowledge to move your business forward, but also some of the challenges you  face in gathering knowledge from different roles within your organization. In this article, we ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Getting started with business process modeling is better done sooner rather than later. Especially since business processes modeling is essential to a data strategy.In this series on business process modeling, we  already looked at what business process modeling is. This week, we look at determining when  tostart business process modeling. If you’re not caught up on the series, we cover the ‘Basics of Business Process Modeling’, here. Getting started with business process modeling: Why am I doing this? When deciding to undertake business process modeling to understand how your company ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. “NoSQL is not an option — it has become a necessity to support next-generation applications.”That point appeared front and center in The Forrester Wave: Big Data NoSQL report last year. The research firm cited that 29% of technology decision-makers queried for its 2016 survey already had implemented or were implementing NoSQL technology, and 12% were expanding or upgrading their deployments. The broad appeal of the technology to nearly every business sector, with projections that the NoSQL market will be worth $4.2 billion by 2020, shouldn’t come as a surprise. The growth ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Kevin Schofield. By now, you’ve likely heard a lot about Big Data. You may have even heard about “the three Vs” of Big Data. Originally defined by Gartner, “Big Data is “high-volume, high-velocity, and/or high-variety information assets that require new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision-making, insight discovery and process optimization.”In this post, we’ll focus on “volume,” deferring a discussion on “velocity” and “variety” and their impacts on data modeling until future posts in this series. This is the first in a series of guest blog posts by Kevin Schofield, CEO ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Digital transformation is ramping up in all industries. Facing regular market disruptions, and landscape-changing technological breakthroughs, modern businesses must be both malleable and willing to change.To stay competitive, you must be agile. Digital Transformation is Inevitable Increasing numbers of organizations are undergoing a digital transformation. The tried-and-tested yet rigid methods of doing business are being replaced by newer, data-orientated approaches that require thorough but fast analysis. Some businesses – like Amazon, Netflix and Uber – are leading this evolution. They all provide very different services, but at their core, they ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Customer journey architects are becoming more relevant than ever before.For businesses that want to make improvements, enterprise architecture has long been a tried and tested technique for mapping out how change should take place. Enterprise architecture looks at the whole company and everything within it. It envelopes the applications and the infrastructure – the hardware, middleware and networks. Enterprise architecture answers the who, what, why, when and where of a company. But for the most part, enterprise architecture is internally focused. Nowadays if businesses are to succeed, they need to ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. A successful data-driven business combines enterprise architecture, data architecture and business process architecture. Integrating these disciplines from the ground up ensures a solid digital foundation on which to build. A strong foundation is necessary because of the amount of data businesses already have to manage. In the last two years, more data has been created than in all of humanity’s history.And it’s still soaring. Analysts predict that by 2020, we’ll create about 1.7 megabytes of new information every second for every human being on the planet. While it’s a lot ... Read More