SmallNet Consulting is an award-winning company formed in 2000 to provide customers with specialist products, training, and services to meet all their DATA integration And DATA Warehousing needs.

Our team of highly skilled consultants that specialise in the leading database technologies, many spanning 20-15 years practical deployment and implantation across a wide variety of business sectors.

This was built upon the skills that came from the early days of Data Warehousing where we have been Designing, Building and Implementing Data Warehouse / Data Integration solutions for our customers.

We learnt quickly that building Data Warehouses with trusted information that users would be prepared to adopt, required more than load scripts and agile data modelling, plus it also needed Data Quality, Data Transparency, and Data Governance as means to a common understanding of business language and sophisticated access models.

Additionally and importantly in the past 5- 10 plus years there has been a large growth in Data privacy and regulations i.e. GDPR and SmallNet Consulting are highly skilled in Data Governance and Data Quality solutions that allows you to work that data and policies through an organisation and provide you with that end to end transparency and regulatory view of your data.

The next generation of trusted data access is called a DATA FABRIC. A data fabric is an architecture and set of data services that provide consistent and secure access to data across a choice of DATA endpoints spanning hybrid multi-cloud environments. It is architected to drive and support standardised data management practices and practicalities across cloud, on-premises, and edge devices.

Additionally, a Data Fabric architecture facilitates unifying data across an organisation. Agnostic to the data environments, processes, use and geography, this architecture helps automate data discovery, data governance and data consumption to deliver business-ready data for reporting, analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) all of which are key ‘use cases’.

There are several key benefits of a data fabric architecture:

• Safeguarding the enterprise data: Data fabric embeds automated governance within the data platform. Enabled by active metadata, data fabric ensures automatic policy enforcement for all data access, providing a high level of data protection.
• Enabling self-service consumption of trusted data: Business users have a single point of access to find, understand, shape and utilize data throughout the organization. The data fabric, therefore, extends the personas and roles within the organization that may access and use data. Data fabric liberates and democratises data consumption.
• Automating the integration of data and providing a single view: Many organisations are having to cobble together at a data platform from different point solutions and manually or programmatically integrate the data. A Data fabric facilitates the automated integration, transformation and orchestration of data to support analytics, business and AI applications.
• Reducing the effort and cost of data acquisition for reporting and analytics.
• Enables Data Governance to be actively applied in real-time, taking Data Governance from being a passive reference point to the managed point of entry for all data.

To find out more or to a demo of IBM Data Fabric Solution for yourself contact us now.