Data Infrastructure
How can you answer questions about the business with siloed data?
We design and build data infrastructure to help you connect information with the right tools and generate insights to improve decision-making.
Create a Clear and Cohesive Picture With Data
Having data centralized in the right place allows you to efficiently model the relationships, perform analytics, and generate insights automatically and at scale.
Our experts help you build a data infrastructure so everyone in your organization accesses the data they need to perform at a high level. Even your non-technical teams will be empowered to make better, data-driven decisions.
The Collectiv Approach to
Data Infrastructure
Whether you have an existing data strategy or need help building one from the ground up, our experts help you create an aligned strategy with your corporate vision.
1. Understand your business needs.
Our Visioning Program provides strategic consultation to help you formulate, refine, and game-plan your data vision for success. We bring our wealth of industry experience and technical expertise to solve highly complex infrastructure challenges.
2. Untangle the complexity.
Once we define your vision, we identify data sources and design architecture to support and streamline your data processes. We create a strategy to align with your objectives, priorities, budget, and timeline.
3. Design the data architecture.
Many people throw good money after bad because they don’t have the right tools to support their vision and architecture. Not with us. While we often recommend the Microsoft Data Stack and Azure Data Factory, we’re also experts in Python, Snowflake, and Databricks.
4. Add BI and reporting capabilities.
Timely reports and visualization empower business users to turn data insights into action. Our Power BI experts help you build and automate reporting so everyone in the organization can access the data they need, whenever they need it.
5. Support updates and maintenance.
Even resourceful organizations struggle to keep up with the ever-evolving BI and data infrastructure technology landscape. You can stay agile with Consulting as a Service (CaaS), which gives you exclusive access to our team of experts.
Data infrastructure is a collection of technologies that support the storage, management, and access to data and data insights. It centralizes data into a lake, then structures that data into a warehouse.
The layers of software sit between your data sources and a BI or Planning tool. When you layer a tool like Power BI on top of this infrastructure for reporting, it can democratize organizational data so business users increase capabilities by more easily accessing and leveraging data-driven insights.
Data infrastructure typically covers these elements:
- Source
- Ingestion
- Storage
- Transformation
- Modeling
- Analytics
Not that simple.
Data infrastructure is a combination of technologies designed to solve specific problems. Our team has competence in many different tools, so we can help you combine them to meet your needs.
While Azure is great for many enterprise teams because it strikes the right balance between user-friendliness and access to advanced features and customization options, we’re by no means a one-trick pony.
Besides Microsoft, we’re competent in Python, Databricks, and Snowflake so we’re well-equipped to build the best solution. We may use multiple elements from Azure or combine your existing on-prem applications with some cloud services.
A great starting point when designing your infrastructure is Collectiv’s Visioning Program. Through Visioning, we’ll help you choose the right tools for the job or figure out the optimal way to work with your existing infrastructure.
Infrastructure FAQs
Data infrastructure has many moving parts. Here are more details on how it can support your enterprise. If you have additional questions or you’re ready to move forward, reach out to the Collectiv team.
