1. Next Generation Information Architecture
Anjan Roy
Pankaj Mittal
May, 2015

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Anjan Roy is a Specialist Leader from Deloitte Consulting’s Information Management practice with
experience in data integration, business intelligence, enterprise data management, master data
management, and data governance. He has more than 17 years of consulting experience focused in data &
information management and business intelligence initiatives. Anjan’s core competency lies in architecting
technology solutions to solve complex business issues. He has been focusing on implementing enterprise
data warehouse solutions and data integration frameworks for Healthcare and life sciences clients for more
than 12 years.
Pankaj Mittal is a Specialist Master in Information Management practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP. Pankaj
has more than 18 years of experience in Information Technology specializing in Business Intelligence and
Data warehousing . He has architected Data Integration and Visualization Solutions for Media &
Entertainment and Financial Service industry majors.
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The foundational block/design of anything you want to build
What is an Architecture?
The Past
Simple Structures
No Need for an Architecture
Pre-modern Era
Complex Structures
Complex Architecture
Modern Era
Smarter Structures
Smarter Architectures
As smarter buildings need smarter architectures,
smarter organizations need smarter architectures too

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Why we need a new Architecture?
• Data explosion
• Decreasing data life span
• Number of data silos
• Variety of data
• Expanding global footprint
• Regulatory pressures
• Fear of unknown
• Information as a competitive advantage
• Need for efficiencies
• Reducing cost of computing
• User empowerment
• Smart devices and smarter users
• Need for discovery
Market
Drivers
Data
Business
Technology
(IT)
Users

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Traditional Enterprise BI/DW Architecture
Consolidation
“performance”
Standardization
“consumability”
Federation
“flexibility”
Standard
Reports
Dash
boards
Landing
Zone
DBs Apps
Files
Internal sources
DBs Apps
Files
External sources
Enterprise
Data
Warehouse
Traditional BI
Master Data
Data MartsRDBMS
Analytics
Product
Sales
Credit
Customer
Market

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Traditional Data Flows
Consolidation
“performance”
Standardization
“consumability”
Federation
“flexibility”
Standard
Reports
Dash
boards
Analytics
Product
Sales
Credit
Customer
Market
Data Warehouse
ODS
Data Marts

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Next Generation Information Flow
8
Data Warehouse
ODS
Cloud
Data Marts
Data Lake
Information/AnalyticsFabric
Datasets
Standard
Reports
Standard
Reports
Self-service
BI
Mobile
Data
Preparation
Advanced
Reporting
Machine
Learning
Predictive
Analytics
Product
Sales
Credit
Customer
Market
Data
sets
Data
sets

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Next Gen Enterprise Information Architecture
Standard
Reports
Prod
uct
Curre
ncy
Cre
dit
Customer
Market
Landing
Zone
DBs Apps
Files
Internal sources
Traditional BI
Enterprise
Data
Warehouse
Master Data
Data MartsODS
In-memory
Analytical
Optimized
Virtual
Marts
Framework
BigData
No SQL
Cloud
DW
DBs Apps
Files
External sources
Cloud
Unstructured
Data
Social Media
Web Portals
Standard
Reports
Self-service
BI
Mobile
Data
Preparation
Advanced
Reporting
Machine
Learning
Predictive
Analytics
Product
Sales
Credit
Customer
Market

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How can an organization integrate and process vast volume of heterogeneous
data from multiple sources in a single repository?
Enterprise data lake stores data in native format without transformations or a rigid
schema enabling for flexibility and scalability
Data Lake
Information
Fabric
Choose
Datasets
Analyze
Results
Low Cost Variety Efficiencies
Data Lake 1
Virtual Marts
BigData
Framework No SQL
Data Lake 2
Virtual Marts
BigData
Framework No SQL
Data Lake …n
Virtual Marts
BigData
Framework No SQL
Data Movement, Decisions
and Consolidations
ValidationIterations, Revisions
and Optimizations
Traditional
Next Generation
Virtual
Marts
BigData
No SQLFramework
Enterprise Data Lake
Information/
Analytics
Fabric

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How can a global organization deal with the increasing demand for fast turn
around infrastructure & pressure on lower IT costs?
A private cloud that can flexibly accommodate multiple cloud infrastructure
layers and have “Data-as-a-Service” available for users
Cloud Fabric
Built-in Fabric Low Cost Variety Efficiencies
The Next Gen Cloud Fabric
V
P
N
WWW
WAN
WAN
Business Analytics
Data warehouse
Outsourced
Development
Production Data
Remote
Backup
Client
Network Application Infrastructure Storage
Platform
as a Service
Software
as a Service
Infrastructure
as a Service
Communications
as a Service
Data
as a Service
Security
Layer
Physical
Layer
Cloud
Services
Business
ProcessesCommunications
Issue to
Resolution
Customer
Satisfaction
Business
Analytics
Authentication
Management
Intrusion
Detection
Product
Innovation
Data
Management
Asset
Management
Data
Protection
Asset
Protection
Data
Ingestion
Natural
Language
Processing
Machine
Learning
Cognitive
Algorithms
Cloud
DW

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Analytics & Data Discovery
How can you make data savvy users independent and enable them to get the
answers they want without compromising quality?
Enterprise Data Discovery enables intuitive access to wildly diverse
information for instant exploration and uncovering insights.
Self-service Insights to Foresights Simulate and Predict
Data Discovery
Discovery Platform
Data Preparation
Discovery Lab & Data Scientist
Cognitive & Predictive Analytics Engine
2
3
Capability Processes
Data Preparation
Accumulate data at Functional Level
Integrate, Curate and Model the data with Similar Meaning
Iterative and Interactive Approach for Integration process
Infer implicit and
explicit
data relationships
Enhance Data Assets by capturing and documenting data
relationships
Relate Events to products and Processes
Rationalize algorithms to understand the patterns
Cognitive and
Predictive Analytics
Engine
Correlate the events with historical trends to understand the
implications
Collaborate with Business on understanding of “WHY” , “HOW”
and “WHEN” for each opportunity
Recommend specific actions with potential outcomes
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Potential Benefits of Next Gen Information Architecture
• Efficient storage
• Real-time capabilities
• Prevalent Data Science
• Expanded avenues
• Competitive advantage
• Time to react to business events
• Improve flexibility
• Lower costs
• Achieve economies of scale
• Self sufficiency
• Amplified intelligence
• Predictive abilities
Data
Business
Technology
(IT)
Users

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Next Gen Information Architecture—Q&A
Anjan Roy
Specialist Leader
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Email: anjroy@deloitte.com
Pankaj Mittal
Specialist Master
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Email: panmittal@deloitte.com

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