Overcoming Retail Data Challenges

Orion’s Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG) Empowers Retailers to Navigate Complex Unified Commerce Supply Chain Information Landscapes

A “GPS” to Light the Way

EIIG provides retailers with a digital map-like system to navigate intelligently through their complex unified commerce supply chain information landscape. With EIIG, retailers can get a better understanding of what is going on in their complex network of supply chain systems.

  • Detect bottlenecks quickly in real-time

  • Unlock the value of data efficiently
  • Reduce costs with automation
  • Accelerate the pace of digital transformation

Orion Governance’s Enterprise Information Intelligence Graph (EIIG) is a self-defined data fabric platform that allows any of your systems and users to discover, trust, and reuse your enterprise’s data assets.

EIIG automatically collects all forms of metadata, be it technical, business, operational, or social, and builds a catalog automatically based on these facts of the data assets. This bottom-up, fact-based approach is essential to a self-defined data fabric with discoverable, trusted, and reusable data.

EIIG offers the most comprehensive knowledge graph in the industry and natively integrates key capabilities such as data lineage, data catalog, active metadata, and metadata analytics in one single product.

EIIG supports over 60+ technologies.

EIIG automatically ingests metadata from a wide range of technologies across operating platforms, programming languages, ETL tools and business intelligence tools.

EIIG’s capability of handling complex datasets from all these technologies enables enterprises to break down data silos and bridge various complex systems to present a unified and near real-time view of disparate data across your enterprise.

The retail environment of the future will revolve around customer experiences. Omnichannel management capabilities and skills will be critical for this transformation.

Data will underpin all operations in the new environment, so a complete understanding and mastery of enterprise data assets is a prerequisite for growth and long-term viability in the retail space.

EIIG is a self-defined data fabric platform that provide this mastery. It has an unmatched ability to reach and ingest metadata for structured and unstructured data assets. It connects with all platforms and absorbs existing code, job control language, scripts, and so forth to build the most comprehensive knowledge graph available today.

Retailers Choose Orion For the Benefits

The knowledge graph is a retailer’s gateway to a long list of essential data management capabilities that can dramatically alter how they manage those enterprise assets.

Orion EIIG retail data dashboard

Enhance unified commerce with a centralized information knowledge graph to establish a single source of truth and real-time data observability.

  • Without the capability of viewing how data travels from the system of records through various other systems to its destination, omnichannel supply chain’s data pipeline is often broken and business bottom-line impacted.

  • EIIG presents detailed intra-system connections just like roads, streets, and alleys in a community. What is more, active metadata is visualized just like real time traffic information, and alerts flash just like you get a notification when there is an accident that may impact your travel.

Empower stakeholders with easy discovery of and access to trusted data to assure timely and accurate decision making.

  • EIIG entails column- and code-level data lineage and deep cataloging capabilities, which enable users to quickly find the data they want.

  • With active metadata, EIIG offers continuous monitoring of data quality by showing the data quality score at each stage throughout the various and complex data systems from the source to the end point.

Drive innovation for future growth with accelerated cloud migration/modernization and shortened application development cycle.

  • EIIG offers a thorough understanding of the environment of the data assets customers plan to migrate for migration readiness assessment. It provides a full inventory of their data assets including code and reports within hours to make sure every report, dashboard, metric, dimension is accounted for, the source tables are identified, and the transformation logic is documented.

  • Impact analysis and change management are another important capability. With EIIG, customers can understand the impacts of any change within minutes. It can provide snapshot versions of the data landscape between iterations, enabling running comparisons and doing impact analysis for root cause analysis.

Reduce costs with automation and powerful analytics.

  • EIIG helps retailers understand the flow of information before they modernize. It automatically pinpoints information that has no value for the business and identifies redundant data assets such as duplicate reports, code, logic, and tables to dramatically reduce the scope of migration.

  • Often, in the complex retail supply chain environment, it requires several SMEs such as data engineers, domain experts, and business managers to come together to troubleshoot some issues. EIIG eliminates such triage cost by providing automated end-to-end traceability and visibility.

  • Another major way of reducing cost is through automation based on the bottom-up approach. When deploying EIIG, there is no coding involved and no need for hiring a team of expensive consultants.

What Our Clients Say

“Orion EIIG team has been very collaborative and listening to our inputs and fulfilling them when applicable. We have a very complex solution which they have supported and provided end-to-end lineage in a constructive and innovative way.”

- Architect in Retail Industry

Orion EIIG
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Data Management Will Be Crucial to the Next Stage in Retail Evolution

“Technology has not traditionally been core to retailers’ operations, and so many may struggle to meet the latest data challenges.

Even early adopters may be ill-equipped for the next stage in the digitalization of the industry. Their data may be tied up in on-prem legacy systems that can’t be expanded. They may lack the computing power to crunch through the volumes of data needed to drive future retail operations, and they may be tied into software licenses that are outdated and not upgradeable.

Without the right skills, companies may find their transitions make matters worse. There can be no place for the “lift and shift” concept here, where the adage “garbage in, garbage out” is likely to ring true.” – Orion CEO Ramesh Shurma

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