Data Modelling

Data should belong to the business and not to the software programmers or IT department, or worse your suppliers. Data is a resource, a living process and it will change. If the modelling is done well then change is nothing to be feared.

Data modelling is about getting consistent data by having very clear definitions and structures, which means that it can be accessed and shared by different applications and different parts of the organisation rather than being trapped in a silo.

It is about getting data into the state that ends the business being constrained by its own IT and forced to use workarounds due to software inflexibilities. It is about getting data into the state that when change occurs it does not spawn big IT migration projects. Data modelling is about enabling business to change because the data foundation has standards, consistency and is predictable.

Data modelling can become very academic and theoretical to the point that it becomes very interesting to IT people and is no longer about prioritising deliverables that can be used by the business e.g you just want your software to be up and running. Arc is by nature a very pragmatic group, perhaps with a dose of cynicism thrown in and we believe that it is important that the business receives the benefits of expert data modelling promptly.