• Cognizant Business Solution Platform
BigDecisionsTM – New Approach to
Information Management and Analytics
In order to stay competitive, businesses need
Analytics (EA) has been to enable effective
sophisticated BI and Analytics that leverages all
decision-making. Even in the wake of radical
available information. The reality on the ground
business and technological changes such as the
also warrants judicious selection of technology
speed of business, regulations, digitization, big
with reasonable maintenance and nimble
data, smart machines, social matrix, etc., the
arrangements that are able to cope with the
underlying principle and the end objective still
d y n a m i c b u s i n e s s d e m a n d s . Co g n i z a n t
remains the same. So, what does this mean for
BigDecisonsTM Business Solutions Platform will
Information Management and Analytics now and
enable you to address the specific needs related to
future? Despite all these changes bringing in
the changing dynamics of EA.
newer contexts and perspectives to look at
available information, the role of EA is still the
same, the only difference being how available
information is being handled and brought in for
BigDecisions Business Solutions
Platform
business consumption. It is not a battle of
Cognizant BigDecisions Business Solutions
Platform comprises of:
principles, rather an endeavor to go beyond
 Relevant Business Apps that are intuitive,
traditional boundaries and be future ready!
business process aligned and offer bite-size BI
A New Beginning
and Analytics.
The flux in the information management and
analytics space warrants a new approach to how
decisions are made, and this approach should only
be limited by the current technological boundaries.
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 Robust Core Platform that is capable of
acquiring, managing, and using Universal Data.
 Rapid Value Delivery, a flexible, agile and
economical implementation path.
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Since the very beginning, the role of Enterprise
The above mentioned components enable
organizations to:
 Reduce uncertainties on realization time and
cost parameters.
Future Ready, Right Now
 Start analyzing and monitoring specific
business functions in 4 - 6 weeks.
Operating within the constraints of today’s
 On-board any new information source for use in
business realities and transforming the
5 - 8 weeks.
information systems to future information assets
 Provide infrastructure flexibility through
needs a new ‘platform’ oriented mindset. With a
various deployment options.
robust, agile and industrialized information
 Adopt tried and tested technological selections
delivery platform, business users will be
and combinations.
empowered with intuitive and self-service analytic
 Realize business value across a library of assets
apps that will help generate actionable insights
per business process.
and foresights.
A modular “Platform” based approach away from isolated point-solutions
BigDecisions – Business Solutions Platform
Data
Acquisition
Unified Information
Management
Unified
Information
Management
Interface Definition
Structured Data
ODBC / JDBC
Data Mart
File Transfer
RDBMS
Mainframe
Flat Files
Excel Files
XML Files
Message Queue
Semi-structured
Data
-
Change Data
Capture
Information Consumption
Canonical Data Models
Landing / Staging
Streams
Data Lake
In-memory
Database
Data Rendering
Open Data Integrator
COTS Adaptors
Technical Data Connectors
Web Services
Analytical Sandbox
Data Dumps
Data Integration Tools
Native Toolset
Social Media
Blogs
Web Pages
Business Data Connectors
Subscription
D a t a Se c u r i ty (Au t h e n t i ca t i o n & Au t h o r i z a t i o n)
Data Sources
Unstructured
Data
-
Data Discovery
BI & Data Visualization
Analytical Exploration
Data Quality Dashboard
Metadata
Repository
Documents
BI / Analytical Dashboards
Data Quality Rules
Repository
Business Rules
Repository
M e t a d a t a M an ag e m e n t Se r vic e s
Email
M o n it o r in g & Sc h e d u l in g Se r vic e s
Media Files
Device / Machine Data
Data Integration
Workbench
Deployment
Workbench
Figure 1
Metadata / DQ
Workbench
Analytical
Workbench
Provisioning
Workbench
About Cognizant Enterprise Analytics
Cognizant Enterprise Analytics drive tangible business benefits to every customer and shifts analytics from being cost
centers to revenue centers. We future-proof visionary businesses by combining in-depth domain expertise with
analytics and information management best practices that help clients optimize decisions and results. Enterprise
Analytics is committed to helping clients run better through a range of integrated analytics and enterprise performance
management services and solutions. We help clients run differently by grounding our services and solutions in
foundational components including mobility, cloud, big data and smart data. Our end-to-end blend of business and
technology solutions already reflects the future of analytics, and enables us to create transformational value through
innovation and agility.
For more information please send an e-mail to our global team at [email protected] or visit our Web site at
http://www.cognizant.com/enterpriseanalytics/big-data
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