Data Management
Data Management Services
In modern management usage, the term data is increasingly replaced by information or even knowledge in a non-technical context. Thus data management services has become information management or knowledge management. This trend obscures the raw data processing and renders interpretation implicit. The distinction between data and derived value is illustrated by the information ladder.
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Our Data Management Types We Offer
Data management is the practice of collecting, keeping, and using data securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Managing digital data in an organization involves a broad range of tasks, policies, procedures, and practices. Data management services helps minimize potential errors by establishing processes and policies for usage and building trust in the data being used to make decisions across your organization. With reliable, up-to-date data, companies can respond more efficiently to market changes and customer needs.
Orientation to Data Governance
1-day session
with all staff of the organization in batches of maximum 10 to apprise them of the importance of data and how data needs to be governed in their organization.
Data Management Policy
1-day session
with related staff of the organization to acquaint them of the requirements of the Data Management Policy and how can it be applied successfully in their organization.
Initation of the Chief Data Officer
5-day training of the selected Chief Data Officer
Help in selecting and training the Chief Data Officer, who shall be responsible for strategic guidance, implementation, and activation of the ADGE Internal Data Working Group.
Establish Data Management Program
Every entity has to establish a Data Management Program within its organisation in compliance with the Abu Dhabi Data Management Standards, cascaded from the Abu Dhabi Government Data Management Program Strategy, and aligned to the Entity’s own overall Strategic Plan.
Data Governance Audit
Conduct risk-based assurance audits to ensure the Program is progressing to schedule, and within its boundaries. Defining the audit criteria for data governance audits. Training the Internal Audit Department in conducting data governance audits. Training the management team in conducting data governance reviews.
Data Quality Assessment Service
Introduce measures for continuously assessing data quality, and shall make improvements to processes or information systems to improve data quality on an ongoing basis. Processes for self-assessing cleanliness of data. Conducting data cleansing.
Compliance Management
Updating the compliance management system of the organization to include compliance to Abu Dhabi Data Governance Policy in its portfolio.
- Defining roles of different entities within the organization with regard to compliance to the Policy
- Modification of relevant processes to ensure compliance to the Policy
Data Governance Controls
Ensuring that appropriate controls exist to ensure compliance to the requirements of the Policy. Also ensuring that proper monitoring is being done to create compliance reports.
- Assessment of all business and technology processes for compliance to the Policy
- Suggested modifications to relevant processes
- Design of new controls, metrics, and monitoring mechanisms
Design of
Service KPIs
Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Data Management Domains, based on control specifications detailed in Abu Dhabi Govt. Data Management Standards, and in alignment with the KPIs cascaded from the Abu Dhabi Govt. Data Management Program Strategy.
- KPIs for all domain at all levels
- Metrics to measure the KPIs
- Controls to get the metrics
- Processes to report the KPIs
Data Architecture Service
Documentation of existing data architecture, and definition of appropriate target data architecture roadmap . The documentation created shall be embedded into existing architecture and design processes and artifacts, where these exist.
- As-is data architecture
- Target data architecture
- Design of process for moderation by the Design Authority of the government-wide Data Management Program
Specialized Data Services
ADDA Support Service
Support ADDA in the process of evaluating the Entity’s Data Management Program status, and will provide ADDA with the requested inputs to complete the evaluation. This will extend to regularly report the Program’s status to ADDA, against the Data Management Program Plan’s initiatives, milestones and other key metrics.
- Evaluation of the organization for ADDA
- Creation of system to regularly report to ADDA
Create a Data Catalogue
Create and implement a Data Catalogue to describe the data that is owned by the Entity. The Catalogue will provide business, technical and semantic descriptions of master profiles, reference data and datasets.
- Design of organization value chain
- Identification of data on the value chain
- Design and implementation of processes for maintenance of Data Catalogue
Data Quality Service
Establish quality metrics for its data, and create a data quality profiling and cleansing plan. The plan shall prioritise the effort based on the following classifications (in order of importance): metadata, reference data, master data, transactional data, audit data and other data.
- Quality metrics for data
- Data profiling and cleansing plan
- Data classification criteria and process
Data Storage Assessment Service
- Conduction of data centre assessment to help comply with the Policy
- Develop and help execute a plan to migrate data and information systems into a new environment commensurate with Abu Dhabi Government Data Management Standards
- Data centre utilization audit to determine its storage capacity and utilization, and to project future requirements.
- Help establish continuous operational monitoring of data storage and information systems, to improve, stabilize and resolve issues with these systems as necessary
- Determine and document lifecycle attributes for all data – with particular emphasis on when data should be archived and/or destroyed – and manage its data within these parameters
- Help ensure data is protected by an adequate back-up schedule, and establish that data can be restored from backups
- Help create, implement and rehearse a disaster recovery plan to ensure service disruption is minimized
Data Interoperability Service
- Helping make data usable throughout the Government and outside it
- Help ensure that data is exchanged using formats that are in line with the Abu Dhabi Data Sharing Platform Requirements
- Help ensure its data is readily shareable and re-usable, and that interoperability conforms to the latest relevant Abu Dhabi Government Standards and Implementation Guidelines
- Review and document the sharing arrangements of data. The review shall describe the current use and purpose of the data (both internal to the Entity and externally), the method used for exchanging data, and will indicate the potential and appropriateness for re-use (this will include consideration of the security and privacy concerns related to all data)
Open Data Management
Open Data Service
Help implement the Open Data policy of ADDA. Review existing data and the arrangements for data publishing. Plan and help execute a plan to publish the data it owns. This will take account of data quality standards, data use, data rights, and data security and privacy categorization.
Document & Content Management Services
Review the current requirement and usage of documents and the supporting document management capabilities, and establish a plan to standardize document formats, bring all documents under management of defined workflows, describe documents using appropriate metadata, and manage the storage of and access to documents using a repository.
Reference & Master Data Service
Help establish Reference Data Management and Master Data Management capability to manage its reference and master data (as appropriate). Establish a plan to migrate its reference data into an RDM toolset, and to modify systems to integrate with the toolset.
Data & Content Life Cycle
Establish a data-and-content lifecycle, which should include sufficient coverage to ensure that obsolete documents and content are archived and eventually destroyed at the appropriate time, after taking the consent written approval from the National Archives on the relevant national archives requirement.
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