DataHub is about agility - A 45min challenge
Initially I wanted to make a post about agility and two speed IT. Two speed IT is a quite old concept and even declared deprecated by its creator the BCG. Indeed in term of process most of the biggest organisations have now converged to the Agile methodology for both legacy and all brand new digital services and business processes. It closes the gap between how the projects are managed on legacy systems and new ones. But does agile mean agility ? Not so sure ... what we see is still limited capacity to innovate in a given constrained period of time. What about the Data hub in this context ? The data hub allows to create an abstraction level on top of the legacy systems in order to keep the pace of the digital transformation. Data Hub allows to ingest the data as-is whatever the sources are (including lecacy systems, ERP, etc.), harmonise them to a unified business model and then create wide range of services to serve the new requirements. All that with maximum agility....