Data management solutions specialists Info.Blueprint have launched Info.Atlas – an open source-based data profiling, assessment, cleansing and cataloguing solution to offer the South African market a lower cost foundation for data-driven business.
Info.Atlas is among a series of new products and services to be launched by Info.Blueprint as the company refreshes its brand and includes locally-developed data solutions that lower barriers to entry for South African businesses.
Aydin Geeringh, Technical Presales Consultant at Info.Blueprint, says dollar-based international brands are often priced out of reach of local organisations, with the added challenges of vendor lock-in and niche skills requirements.
“With many of the ‘household name’ brands, you can’t shift between different technology stacks because each has specific programming language or architecture,” he says.
“Info.Blueprint has addressed these challenges by leveraging open source solutions using generic programming languages such as Python, and building on top of them to address our current offerings for data quality, data management and data governance at a better price point. We’re expanding on what we’ve developed over the past 18 years in terms of IP and our knowledge in the market to better meet local needs.”
As a pioneer in data management solutions, Info.Blueprint’s Info.Atlas helps organisations overcome data quality challenges that hamper analytics, operations, AI and compliance.
Info.Atlas is a comprehensive data quality and data catalogue platform designed to help organisations effectively manage and enhance data quality with data profiling, data quality assessment, data cleansing, data lineage and data cataloguing.
Geeringh elaborates: “At its core, Info.Atlas is a data catalogue and data observability platform that connects isolated data systems and ingests the metadata so organisations achieve full visibility of what’s happening in their data landscape. From source systems to, for example, Power BI reports, they can monitor how that data moves and changes throughout the pipeline. On top of that we’ve embedded our IP – our data quality rules engine – which addresses unique South African requirements with hundreds of rules. An example of this is the unique format of the South African ID number.”
“With this embedded into the platform, organisations no longer have to write SQL or code to run complex data quality assessments, but they can now run them at a click of a button. It’s all running on the same platform and is database agnostic, so you can run the same data quality checks on Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and many other platforms, and see it and run it from a user-friendly interface instead of having to run it through a coding language or a terminal,” he says. “Because you’re consolidating all your metadata into a single platform, you can also start using it as a collaboration tool and data governance platform.”
Geeringh says Info.Atlas addresses issues such as definitions, and allows organisations to flag issues and assign ownership to data stewards.
“For example, if someone is looking at income statement data, they can view their glossary definition of revenue and feel confident that revenue is always the same, no matter what. They can start classifying their data by using this data cataloguing feature and then if there are any data quality issues, they can now assign ownership to that table and that specific data quality rule and to a person responsible for analysing why there is a mistake,” he says.
Geeringh says Info.Atlas can help local organisations boost their data capabilities. “In terms of data literacy, many companies are quite far behind, and have enterprise systems comprising various ‘band-aid’ solutions to organise their data, but they’re still not getting full value from them or utilising them optimally. Info.Atlas puts organisations ahead of their counterparts by giving them the foundation for inventorying, organising, understanding and managing their own data,” he says.
Info.Blueprint lowers the cost of quality data with new Info.Atlas
Data management solutions specialists Info.Blueprint have launched Info.Atlas – an open source-based data profiling, assessment, cleansing and cataloguing solution to offer the South African market a lower cost foundation for data-driven business.
Info.Atlas is among a series of new products and services to be launched by Info.Blueprint as the company refreshes its brand and includes locally-developed data solutions that lower barriers to entry for South African businesses.
Aydin Geeringh, Technical Presales Consultant at Info.Blueprint, says dollar-based international brands are often priced out of reach of local organisations, with the added challenges of vendor lock-in and niche skills requirements.
“With many of the ‘household name’ brands, you can’t shift between different technology stacks because each has specific programming language or architecture,” he says.
“Info.Blueprint has addressed these challenges by leveraging open source solutions using generic programming languages such as Python, and building on top of them to address our current offerings for data quality, data management and data governance at a better price point. We’re expanding on what we’ve developed over the past 18 years in terms of IP and our knowledge in the market to better meet local needs.”
As a pioneer in data management solutions, Info.Blueprint’s Info.Atlas helps organisations overcome data quality challenges that hamper analytics, operations, AI and compliance.
Info.Atlas is a comprehensive data quality and data catalogue platform designed to help organisations effectively manage and enhance data quality with data profiling, data quality assessment, data cleansing, data lineage and data cataloguing.
Geeringh elaborates: “At its core, Info.Atlas is a data catalogue and data observability platform that connects isolated data systems and ingests the metadata so organisations achieve full visibility of what’s happening in their data landscape. From source systems to, for example, Power BI reports, they can monitor how that data moves and changes throughout the pipeline. On top of that we’ve embedded our IP – our data quality rules engine – which addresses unique South African requirements with hundreds of rules. An example of this is the unique format of the South African ID number.”
“With this embedded into the platform, organisations no longer have to write SQL or code to run complex data quality assessments, but they can now run them at a click of a button. It’s all running on the same platform and is database agnostic, so you can run the same data quality checks on Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and many other platforms, and see it and run it from a user-friendly interface instead of having to run it through a coding language or a terminal,” he says. “Because you’re consolidating all your metadata into a single platform, you can also start using it as a collaboration tool and data governance platform.”
Geeringh says Info.Atlas addresses issues such as definitions, and allows organisations to flag issues and assign ownership to data stewards.
“For example, if someone is looking at income statement data, they can view their glossary definition of revenue and feel confident that revenue is always the same, no matter what. They can start classifying their data by using this data cataloguing feature and then if there are any data quality issues, they can now assign ownership to that table and that specific data quality rule and to a person responsible for analysing why there is a mistake,” he says.
Geeringh says Info.Atlas can help local organisations boost their data capabilities. “In terms of data literacy, many companies are quite far behind, and have enterprise systems comprising various ‘band-aid’ solutions to organise their data, but they’re still not getting full value from them or utilising them optimally. Info.Atlas puts organisations ahead of their counterparts by giving them the foundation for inventorying, organising, understanding and managing their own data,” he says.
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