As data volume, variety, and sources quickly increase, businesses can struggle to manage their data and generate meaningful analysis. Companies risk falling behind competitors who can effectively manage this information. Not all organizations have developed the required technical skills and business processes to implement modern data analytics solutions. Rackspace can help with this.
The architects and data engineers at Rackspace accelerate the value you get from your data by using leading cloud data analytics frameworks. Rackspace offers deep technical and business process expertise to help you gain actionable intelligence from your data by providing the following data modernization services:
- Assessment and strategy
- Data transformation
Data analytics assessment and strategy
Rackspace helps you develop a practical solution that focuses on both technology and business transformation.
This solution includes:
Data discovery workshop: Data architects conduct an on-site workshop to discuss best practices, introduce core analytics and big data concepts, ideate solutions for high-priority use cases, and determine if a proof of concept or a minimum viable product (MVP) is needed.
Modern data architecture assessment and strategy: Rackspace data architects conduct on-site sessions to assess the current state of the data analytics services, organization culture, and the process around data. They determine business use cases, and prioritize and build out a complete data strategy and an implementation roadmap.
Data transformation
From designing the architecture to delivering dashboards with real-time refreshes, Rackspace helps you transform how data is collected, processed, and delivered to your stakeholders. This might start with a proof of concept on your data sample to demonstrate the value of data-driven decisions to your business. If you are further in your journey, we can develop a prototype or MVP to see how to leverage data analytics in practice. Or you may be ready for a full production solution that includes:
- Data platform architecture and design: Rackspace designs and builds an enterprise-grade production environment leveraging automation, ingestion best practices, data processing, storage patterns, and cloud best practices.
- Data integration: Rackspace develops data pipelines to ingest, transform, and store data.
- Data modeling: Rackspace data engineers define data models and create schemas, data translations, and consumption pattern best practices.
- Business intelligence (BI) and reporting: Rackspace data engineers build dashboards and real-time data refreshes as well as build and automate operational and business reporting, so you have complete and readily available insight into your data.
Benefits
Data modernization has the following benefits:
Become a data-driven organization: Spend less time managing and tracking data and more time deriving actionable intelligence to make valuable business decisions. Companies that lack data discipline and insights are losing out on innovation.
Reduce time and costs: Accelerate development time from months to weeks, drive down delivery costs, and generate significant return on investment (ROI) through revenue generation, implementation savings, and operating efficiencies.
Break down data silos: Streamline your data architecture to enable easy access across your organization and encourage transparent, accurate, and faster collaboration.
Self-service: Enable self-service access to data across the organization to foster collaboration and data exploration to create new use cases not possible with the current data architecture.
Conclusion
Rackspace has a cloud-agnostic team that can assess your current systems, identify your business objectives, and design your ideal future state reference data architecture. Rackspace uses its data analytics and tooling expertise to generate a roadmap that accounts for future data management, analytics, and artificial intelligence/machine learning workloads. Work with experts today to get the most out of your data.
If you’d like to explore data modernization, contact us at: [email protected].