Why Integrating Process and Data Seamlessly Can Give Businesses a Competitive Advantage

Posted by: Peter Kuipers 16 Jul 10 - 9:57AM | Peter Kuipers

Companies have traditionally invested enormous efforts to get process right and then gather data to understand the performance of the business.

Those two dimensions have not been typically coordinated with the result that a chicken and egg effect was triggered requiring more and more work to get to the desired arrival point.

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Dear Jagan, thanks for your comment. I totally agree with you that authorisation is a major item for companies to control. This is one of the reasons this has to be designed in the same "blueprint" of the organisation, so desired changes are also evaluated on impact at authorisation aspects. For example an organisation decides that a certain role has to have access to certain order types. They can see the impact of that change, because all relevant aspects are related in the central blueprint and the changes can be implemented from there. If this organisation doesn't have this central blueprint, it is almost impossible to determine what has to be changed where, because that role needs to have access in transactional applications, BI reports, KPI's, etc. Let me be clear on the data part concerning the central blueprint of an organisation. It doesn;t contain the data itself, but only the framework concerning the data.

Posted by: Peter Kuipers, Date 23 July 2010, 04:27AM

Of course, compared to islands of information where one can not access another related info, having integrated process and data will be a great advantage. There are issues to consider of course, like access/security issues. One can not have access to every piece of data in the company. Access needs to be controlled based on one's role and level. This has to be a major part of the Security/Access Control function.

Posted by: Jagan Gunja, Date 22 July 2010, 01:00AM

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