Data Virtualization Competency Center
Problem - As Data Virtualization Use Rises, People and Process Becomes More Important
In early stages of Composite data virtualization adoption, enterprises and government agencies primary objective is project success. Identify best fit for data virtualization projects. Design the views and services needed by the consuming applications. Deploy. Run. And repeat for another project.
However, with wider and wider use, the opportunity for best practice methods, object reuse, resource sharing and more increase.
Solution - Use a Data Virtualization Integration Competency Center (ICC) to Optimize People, Process, and Technology
Integration Competency Centers are a proven approach for optimizing organizational support, methodologies and middleware usage for a range of integration offerings including EAI, ETL, BPM, and data virtualization.
With a data virtualization ICC, you can decide whether to centralize, decentralize, use some combination of resources to support key design, development, and operation. Further, the data virtualization ICC enables you to capture and leverage best practices at each stage. And it provides the control structure that will enable great reuse of your federated views, data services, caches, virtual data marts, virtual operational data stores, and abstracted data layers.
Selected Examples
- Investment Bank Integration Competency Center - To optimize the people, process and technology activities associated with integration across their key integration middleware standards (Composite for data virtualization, Tibco for BPM and ESB, and Informatica for ETL), this bank leveraged an ICC approach. The central ICC team, experts on Composite, provided design and development support to specific project teams on a project by project basis. In additiona, they centrally managed their best practice methods, reusable development objects and Composite development, testing, staging, production, and failover.
