What are industry data models?
An industry data model from IBM is a set of business and technical data models that are predesigned to meet the needs of a particular industry. It acts as a blueprint that provides common elements derived from best practices, government regulations and the complex data and analytic needs of an industry-specific organization.
Within the schematics of an industry data model from IBM are data warehouse design models, business terminology and business intelligence templates. The models provide organizations within a specific industry a predesigned framework to help accelerate the development of analytic solutions.
These frameworks provide a catalog of industry-specific terminology and concepts, data structure designs and KPI and report designs, which can quickly help governance, compliance and integration efforts.
Industry data models from IBM can help accelerate your analytics journey by applying best practices, using pre-designed industry-specific content. It can help you manage your enterprise data, whether in your data warehouse or in the data lake, so you can derive insights and make informed decisions.
Read about the value and leverage of data models in the enterprise.
Features
Time to value
Helps reduce the time and effort needed for analysis and design of functional requirements by providing industry-specific information infrastructures
Business agility
Quickly builds and rationalizes data warehouses, providing a consistent data architecture for modeling new or changed requirements
High-quality business data
Reduces risk and enables successful delivery of high-quality data for applications across the organization, with a streamlined and best-practices approach to business transformation
Audit readiness
Creates enterprise-wide key performance indicators (KPIs), and addresses compliance, reporting and analysis requirements
In the spotlight
Products
IBM Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse
Predefined financial services-specific vocabularies, KPIs and data structures, which can help accelerate enterprise governance and analytics projects
IBM Banking Process & Service Models
Predefined financial services-specific vocabularies, workflows, activities and services, interfaces and components, which can help with the analysis and design of business process management and service-oriented architectures
IBM Insurance Information Warehouse
Predefined insurance-specific vocabularies, KPIs and data structures, which can help accelerate enterprise governance and analytics projects
IBM Data Model for Energy and Utilities
Predefined energy-and-utilities-specific vocabularies, KPIs and data structures, which can help accelerate enterprise governance and analytics projects
IBM Unified Data Model for Healthcare
Predefined healthcare-specific vocabularies, KPIs and data structures, which can help accelerate enterprise governance and analytics projects
Resources
IBM Industry Models support for a data lake architecture
Understand the necessary guidelines and practices for organizations that want to use IBM Industry Models as a key part of their data lake initiative.
Business-user-focused vocabularies for IBM Industry Models
Learn the guidelines that organizations are using for IBM Industry Models, which help build vocabulary assets that are effective in accurately reflecting the meaning and full context of the key business terms required to support the specific needs of the various business-focused users.
Guidelines for deploying IBM Industry Models to Hadoop
Explore the use of the IBM Industry Models and their deployment to the Hive and HBASE areas of the Hadoop landscape.
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