How it Works

A Factory-like Approach Accelerates and Streamlines Data Processes

Derived from the Toyota Production System developed a half-century ago for automobile manufacturing, Lean management is now applied in a range of product and service industries.

Lean Integration introduces a factory-like approach to data quality and integration. It supplies an organizational and technological framework for your organization to transition toward a next phase of data integration maturity and achieve high degrees of operational efficiency.

Lean Integration Principles

  • Eliminate waste of time, money, and resources by zeroing in on unneeded data, redundant efforts, and inefficient processes
  • Automate processes with a systematic approach using reusable templates and components and event-driven business rules
  • Build quality in with automated data profiling to identify problems and browser-based tools for business users
  • Drive continuous improvement with visual metadata management, data quality scorecards, and tighter business-IT collaboration
  • Empower the team with self-service capabilities and role-based tools for nontechnical business analysts and data stewards
  • Plan for change with a data virtualization layer and logical data objects that can be reused without disrupting underlying systems
  • Optimize the whole with a comprehensive, unified, open, and economical platform engineered to enable Lean Integration

Lean Integration Benefits

  • Reduce cost and inefficiency by eliminating wasteful use of staff time
  • Accelerate and streamline integration through automation, reuse, and template-driven self-service solutions
  • Improve project quality with automated data profiling and data quality scorecards and by equipping business users with easy-to-use tools
  • Generate greater value by focusing Lean Integration efforts on the needs of end-user customers
  • Increase return on investment by reusing low-level building blocks, application components, and codified business rules
  • Enhance business and IT agility by applying Lean Integration across the extended enterprise