Data Strategy, Organisation & Governance

Woodmark is your expert partner for turning business into IT and data into success. We accompany you reliably to your goal. To do this, we develop strategies, align your organisation and organise processes.

Data strategy

Our experts work with you to develop a sustainable data and business intelligence (BI) strategy. We derive the strategy from your business model, focussing on data as an asset. We also offer you a data culture workshop for self-service BI, among other things. We renew the organisation of your company so that you can monetise your data effortlessly.

Organisation of structures and processes

Following a thorough requirements analysis, we work with you to design the structural and procedural organisation of the data and BI area for your data strategy or a data lab organisation. This may take the form of a Data Analytics Competence Centre, BICC (BI Competence Centre) or a BI Shared Service Centre.

 

Data platform

Data is becoming an integral part of value creation. But if you want to sell data as part of your business model, you need a reliable data platform. We help in setting up this platform, including the associated processes and roles, so that you can use your data profitably and monetize its value.

BI audits and innovation management

Determination of the utilisation potential of data and BI innovations as well as development and introduction of customer-specific agile procedures for BI projects. As a neutral consultant, we audit and evaluate your BI system including processes, architecture and performance systematically.

Change Management

Data solutions create added value directly in your company's day-to-day work. Together with employees from specialist departments and higher-level units, we support your transformation process towards data-driven business.

D2E-Workshop

Think big, start small, scale fast!

The fastest way from your use case idea to the blueprint for implementation: Let's unearth your company's data treasure together with D2E (Data-Driven Everything). D2E is a methodical approach to managing, optimising and transforming your organisation through the use of data. We work with you to find relevant use cases for your organisation and determine the internal group of participants for the development.

With the D2E method, we think ‘big’ about your specific use case, start ‘small’ and develop a scalable practical solution within 60-90 days. The so-called ‘minimum viable product’, or MVP for short, is production-ready and only contains the most important basic functions in the first step. This allows you to gain valuable experience early on and then adapt and expand the product accordingly.

Focus group: C-Level or VP, Data & Analytics Experts, IT Experts and Business Unit Managers

Objective: We translate business into IT and accompany you on the path to becoming a data-driven company. With our D2E workshop, you will quickly gain insights into the necessary transformation of your processes, get the most out of your data and make well-founded decisions in real time.

Offer contents and results:

1) Preparation of the D2E workshop: Analysis of your requirements and definition of the target groups of the MVPs, the workshop participants and the use case. Based on this, we develop the agenda and the playbook.

2) Two-day D2E workshop: During the two-day intensive workshop, our experts work with your team to develop a roadmap, architecture and backlog for the implementation of your minimum viable product. The MVP takes your individual requirements into account and can be quickly scaled to other business use cases.

3) Take-aways: We work through the results in detail so that you receive a comprehensive read-out document with specific recommendations for action within three weeks of the workshop. This includes the prioritised tasks, the detailed MVP (project plan, architecture blueprint, story board and the use case) as well as the overall product including the target architecture, think big (long-term vision) and business outcomes (business value).

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Why choose Woodmark?

Woodmark is an expert with 25 years of experience in handling data, data strategy and data organisation. We create a professional and ready-to-use blueprint for the implementation of the use case developed in the workshop.

Data Platform Concept

Use your company's wealth of data

Link your data, create synergies and integrate AI into your processes!

Would you like to advance the digitalisation of your department, but don't have the necessary cloud expertise? We translate your requirements into IT, i.e. support you with a feasibility study and test your use case. This allows you to find out quickly and cost-effectively whether moving to the cloud is worthwhile for you and what you need to bear in mind.

 

Focus group: Team leaders from the specialist departments, e.g. Finance, Purchasing, HR, Production & Sales

Offer content and results: With the ‘Dataplatform Concept’, you lay the foundation for the use of AI solutions in your company. We provide you with the following jointly developed plans:

  • Concept for a cloud target architecture of the data platform
  • Concrete blueprint for an MVP
  • AI & Analytics use cases prio list for implementation on the data platform
  • AI scaling plan in the form of backlogs

Implementation phases:

  1. Inventory of IT, vision and data strategy as well as definition of the value streams of your specific business
  2. Possible use cases are identified and prioritised based on the requirements analysis. We specify the initial data requirements for the platform.
  3. Development of the data platform architecture, the MVP concept and the roadmap

All advantages at a glance:

  • By focussing on an MVP, the risk of bad investments is reduced, as it quickly becomes clear whether the project can generate added value.
  • You receive a clearly defined implementation strategy to realise your idea step by step.
  • Based on your value streams, we focus on the core functionalities
  • By developing an MVP, a functioning version of the data platform is quickly made live and tested. This shortens the time-to-market.
  • The architecture blueprint ensures that the planned solution is designed for scalability and future expansion right from the start.

 

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Why choose Woodmark?

As a partner of leading technology providers such as AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, and Tableau, Woodmark offers you access to the latest technologies and best practices. Through our unique and collaborative approach to developing customised solutions, we not only integrate the latest technologies, but also involve your team in every step of the process. In this way, we ensure that the developed platform optimally supports your business goals. We have already successfully implemented the Data Platform Concept several times.

Our services for data strategy:

  • Data strategy to monetize your data
  • "Data as an asset" approach based on a data platform
  • Establishing data competency, so-called "data literacy"
  • Transformation towards a data-driven company

Tools:

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • SCRUM
  • KANBAN
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Data governance, data quality & data lineage

Data Governance

Data governance

Woodmark experts have been successfully supporting data governance projects for many years. We develop a sustainable data governance strategy to manage complex data landscapes efficiently, effectively and in compliance with laws and regulations. Based on that, we develop master and meta data management solutions so that you can implement your strategy effortlessly and successfully - Data security and compliance with the EU GDPR are guaranteed.

Data quality

The consultants at Woodmark place the highest value on data quality. Whether for test data management or for directly business-critical payment data, we recognize data anomalies and errors thanks to the most modern tools and processes and correct the incorrect data. Data integrity is always guaranteed so that incorrect data does not endanger your business success.

 

Data lineage

EU GDPR and many other regulations are intended to ensure data protection and data security. This also includes the traceability of data: Where did it originate, which systems did it pass through, which units are involved in processing? Woodmark assists in developing and implementing data lineage concepts that make your data history traceable. Transparency is not only required by the legislator, it is also a central requirement for using your data as an asset.

GDPR / Data protection

Woodmark Consulting supports the handling, processing and storage of particularly sensitive data. We advise on the most suitable method of data protection, from data encryption, data anonymization to pseudonymization, in order to prevent any kind of unauthorized access or misuse.

Cloud Software Quality Review

We analyse the quality assurance of your software development

As part of our Cloud Software Quality Review, Woodmark experts analyse the current quality assurance (QA) status of your software. Based on the results, you will receive customised recommendations from us. This allows you to manage your various challenges independently and achieve efficient QA in the cloud. This allows you to realise potential benefits such as the early detection of errors, ensuring your product quality, cost savings and faster go-lives.

 

Focus group: IT Project Managers, IT Department Managers, Product Owners, (Test) Center of Excellence

Objective: You will be able to recognise and classify challenges in software quality assurance in the cloud. With the specific recommendations, you will have the problem avoidance or solution under control. You will also be aware of the benefits of the respective optimisation, such as:

  • Early identification of errors
  • Functioning change management
  • More efficient processes in software quality assurance
  • Cost savings through rework
  • Faster implementation, i.e. shorter time to market


Contents and methods

  1. One-day workshop to assess software quality assurance when using the cloud and to identify areas of action for further optimisation.
  2. Up to five interviews to clarify individual topics in detail from the perspective of the various participants and roles such as Release Train Engineer, Product Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Tester, Developer, etc.
  3. Creation of a decision template to present the optimisation options for the identified topics in the form of a PowerPoint presentation.

Result

  • Presentation of the current situation based on the workshop and interview information
  • Detailed description of the identified challenges and fields of action
  • Decision template with tailored recommendations for optimising software quality assurance in the cloud

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Why choose Woodmark?

With 25 years of experience in data & analytics, the Woodmark experts develop customised solutions. As an AWS partner, we support you in the successful migration to the cloud. We work in an agile manner and evaluate topics from different, cross-functional perspectives to develop the best customer solution.

Our services for data governance

  • Data governance all aspects of the GDPR
  • Data Lineage - traceability from the source to the annual report
  • Data Quality - Check your data quality and clean up data anomalies
  • Data Security & Protection - data encryption, data anonymization, pseudonymization
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