196. The latest Gartner Information Capabilities Framework (ICF) contains a number of capabilities that are important for new or challenging use cases, such as for example new (big) data sources, data sharing via data hubs and wider data ecosystems, IoT/streaming mode etc. The table below shows that CSDA also covers those capabilities, albeit in a slightly different grouping, under different names.

Table 4: CSDA vs Gartner ICF

Gartner name

Gartner description

CSDA

Describe

Collect knowledge about data assets including where they are, what format they are in, what level of quality they represent and their potential value to the enterprise.

Source Discovery & Profiling

Organize

Align and structure data assets so that they can be readily found and easily consumed by other use cases. Decide if data should be structured in a way that conforms to the organization's standards of syntax (format), semantics (meaning) and terminology (use of common terms), or whether the use case allows for local standards. Opting to organize data locally may affect the ability to integrate with other sources or support other use cases.

Data Description & Organization

Integrate

Support accessing and ingesting diverse data types, performing transformations (changing formats and semantics, or combining data, for example) and allow independently designed data structures to be used together toward a common objective.

Information Logistics

Share

Make data available to consumption points. This can mean a single use case or a variety of use cases depending on the trade-offs made for organizing and integrating data.

Information Logistics

Govern

Provide for risk assessment, control and compliance as it relates to data quality, security, privacy and retention. Data governance will need to take a trust-based approach that is no longer a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach, but an approach that adapts to the situation and the level of central governance required.

Information Governance, Security & Information Assurance

Implement

Support the deployment and execution of the other five capability types. The decision of collecting versus connecting to data only needs to be resolved at implementation. Changes in implementation can also occur over time as the level of usage (or the use case) evolves.

GAMSO: Capability Development

197. Notes:

  1. Integrate: Mapping Gartner's Integrate to CSDA's Information Logistics is based on the assumption that Gartner puts emphasis on "support for" performing transformation and integration, much like CSDA has separate capabilities for the actual Data Transformation and Data Integration.
  2. Implement: Just like CSDA, Gartner recognizes two modes of operation: COLLECT and CONNECT, where COLLECT represents the (more traditional) way of ingesting data into the own systems before processing (centralized data and processing), whereas CONNECT represents the way where processing happens by directly connecting to the (external) data sources (distributed data and processing). CSDA supports the view that decisions about "collect" vs "connect" should be made on a case-by-case basis, preferably during Source Discovery & Profiling. Implementing such decisions is "business as usual" and should be part of Execution ("Production" in GAMSO terminology). Information Logistics therefore should include the ability to implement (configure) solutions for both modes of operation.