Launch
Build a foundation for strong data management at your organization with EK’s Data Governance Maturity Assessment, designed to assess current practices and establish a clear roadmap for governance and growth.
Expand
Scale your data operations through our Data Catalog Expansion Workshop and Data Governance Program Starter Kit, which provide the frameworks and tools necessary to expand data governance capabilities and integrate data catalogs across your organization.
Advance
Leverage insights and create business value by enhancing your data with our Data Product Accelerator enabling you to build sophisticated data solutions tailored to your strategic goals and ensuring your data is serving the needs of the users in your organization.
EK’s core data services are designed to meet your organization wherever it is in its data maturity journey. Our approach is rooted in deep expertise in knowledge, information, and data management, years of experience delivering these services to our clients, and is custom tailored specifically to the unique needs of your business. All of this ensures that your data initiatives are not only effective, but also scalable as your organization grows.
Well-implemented data catalogs solutions and data products serve as the foundation for breaking down silos, ensuring data accessibility, and driving data reusability across your organization, all while enabling more effective analytics and AI capabilities. Whether you’re just getting started with organizing your data or are ready to develop AI & ML models for new data products, our services are designed to help you effectively and quickly leverage your data assets.
Data Governance Maturity Assessment
EK’s Governance Maturity Assessment will help your organization understand the maturity of its existing governance program, and provide you with the foundations needed to develop effective governance. This 12-week engagement will provide organizations with a defined score (1-5) on the current state of their governance program, as well as clearly defined path and roadmap to improve governance maturity. Understand your team’s governance strengths and opportunities, and identify critical areas to prioritize from a timing, resourcing, and planning perspective to improve governance effectiveness across the program and enterprise.
For more information, check out our Data Governance Maturity Assessment page, or Contact us today.
Data Catalog Expansion Workshop
Designed to help launch your data governance initiatives, EK’s 3-week Data Catalog Expansion Workshop will support organizations in identifying and addressing the challenges that come with data catalog expansion, integration, and governance. This workshop will provide comprehensive trainings and engagement sessions to up-skill your team on Data Catalog best practices along with a clearly defined path and roadmap to preemptively address roadblocks and remediate common pain points for a growing data catalog program. From our extensive experience implementing data catalogs, we understand the critical areas to address from a timing, resourcing, and planning perspective to improve governance effectiveness across the program and enterprise.
For more information, check out our Data Catalog Expansion Workshop page, or Contact us today.
Data Governance Program Starter Kit
As organizations grow and data management becomes increasingly complex, establishing a comprehensive and scalable governance framework is critical. EK’s Data Governance Program Starter Kit provides the foundation needed to design and implement a sustainable governance program, ensuring that your organization can effectively manage data quality, compliance, and security at scale. It’s also a great way to grow after the Data Catalog Expansion Workshop.
For more information, check out our Data Governance Program Starter Kit page, or Contact us today.
Data Product Accelerator
As organizations strive to extract more value from their data, the need for well-defined data products that deliver actionable insights becomes increasingly critical. EK’s Data Product Accelerator is designed to help current or future Data Product Owners and Chief Information/Data Officers rapidly develop and deploy tailored data products that meet specific business needs. By focusing on the creation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), we ensure that your organization can quickly leverage data to improve decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and support long-term business objectives. For many organizations, the challenge is not just in collecting data, but in turning that data into actionable, reliable products that drive decision-making and innovation. The Data Product Accelerator addresses this challenge by providing a structured, scalable framework for data product development, enabling your teams to deliver high-impact data products that support your organization’s strategic goals.
For more information, check out our Data Product Accelerator page, or Contact us today.
Case Studies
The Challenge
The proper use and management of data across a federal financial organization is central to fulfilling supervisory, insurance, and resolution functions. The organization required a comprehensive data catalog solution to serve as a central facilitator for their overarching data strategy and governance program and as a source to search, discover, and gain insights into enterprise-wide data assets.
Currently, the organization hosts petabytes of data across various cloud platforms, mainframes, and databases for use in a variety of systems and applications internally and externally.
The Solution
EK developed an implementation strategy for the overall execution and development of the data governance operating model, ensuring the successful establishment of the organization’s central authoritative source for searching, discovering, learning, and obtaining analytical insights throughout the Corporation.
EK addressed this challenge by starting with the implementation of an enterprise data catalog. Support included:
The Results
As part of the initial MVP, EK successfully implemented the data catalog solution to lay a foundation for a federated data governance model to:
Integrate with
- 4 systems, ingesting
- 4 glossary sources, and
- 9 independent classes
The Challenge
EK was engaged by a large multinational communications company with over 20 child organizations that was looking for solutions to support with its data strategy and governance practices. There was a lack of transparency over which common data sets were available for use, users did not understand the quality of the data available to them, and each child organization had different definitions of key terms. The goals for this engagement were to quickly demonstrate the value of entity resolution, identify graphs, and quickly demonstrate the value of a data catalog by setting up an enterprise solution to enable discovery, empower users to be able to understand and access the data they need, and guide users toward self-service answers about the data through search and glossaries.
The Solution
To address these challenges, EK implemented a comprehensive data catalog solution, with governance built in from the beginning. EK also created a detailed program plan and trained all identified user personas to ensure adoption and data quality within the catalog.
To help mitigate the challenges with lengthy deployments, EK used a phased implementation approach that focused on maximizing the integration, enablement, and ultimately the actual business objectives of the data catalog initiative.
Success Criteria
The Results
The organization experienced ROI as a result of this engagement and currently uses the data catalog across several key child organizations.
The Challenge
A major government banking agency was looking to navigate challenges with their data. Experts experienced they were unable to easily access, interpret, and track available data resources. In addition, they often didn’t know the provenance of information and were missing the meaningful context needed to fully utilize their data.
The Solution
To address this organization’s data needs, EK built an ontology to capture key data context and metadata including datasets, documentation, data features, and coding manuals. This work powered a data catalog solution, making it easy for users to find, interpret, and connect to data resources across the agency, including the lineage of information.
Use Cases
Technical Users
Quickly identify relevant data to use for research, analysis, and statistical programming, including the lineage of that information.
Business Users
Know what the data is used for, where it comes from, what its associated resources are, and how to decipher jargon.
Knowledge Managers
Easily describe, organize, and maintain data resources.
The Results
This engagement allowed the agency to: