OneData Overview
OneData is enterprise software for Information Management, providing a collaborative framework to manage the various information assets in an enterprise, including, but not limited to:
- Master Data, such as your Customer and Product Data, Employee and Vendor Data
- Reference Data, such as your organization structures, dimensions, lookup tables and pick-lists
- Business and technical metadata
- Content, such as documents and unstructured data
- Registries and Taxonomies
- Dictionaries, glossaries, and directories
The built-in semantic layer allows for the standardization and harmonization of the differences in information assets, both within an organization as well as among business partners. It also provides the way to resolve and rectify inconsistencies in information assets.
Organizations such as Avon, Pepsico, Glencore AG and the State of New Jersey use OneData for their complex information management needs.
Business challenges addressed by OneData
- Lack of visibility into shareable data and processes, leading to poor data quality and inaccurate business results.
- Inconsistent business definitions for your customer or product attributes, organizational hierarchies, or other master data.
- Inaccurate analytical reporting on cross-functional data.
- Inability to determine and maintain ownership of the data for key business entities.
- Inability to effect changes quickly corresponding to the changes in the business.
Business benefits
- Improved performance and decision making due to better and quicker information access.
- Faster response to change in the organization, whether change is due to diversification or business transformation.
- Business ownership of data and quality.
- Consistent, integrated view of the business internally and to external supplier and customers.
- Longer-term strategic view of systems development and code standards.
Where does OneData fit in?
- OneData forms the binding layer for the organization that provides consistent interpretation of the business data and help create and maintain the data.
- It works towards providing consistent shareable data to make it easier to consolidate information at a later stage. ETL and metadata tools, on the other hand, are primarily intended for IT and work towards consolidating and reporting data already present in systems.
- OneData is a business-oriented tool, with a semantic presentation layer (user interface) and a collaborative engine that increases the visibility and hides the complexity while promoting stewardship of the data.
- Its flexible and customizable architecture provides IT with the capability to rapidly respond to changing business needs.
- OneData works with existing sources of data to provide a centralized portal to access all shareable information assets.
