BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edv2015.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=95&proposalid=8038\nThere are many challenges in developing a long-standing “Legacy” Company into a data-driven organization. Companies established in the last ten years are more prepared and likely to have been conceived with a data-centric vision in mind. However, re-orienting how a “legacy” organization thinks about data (e.g. data as an asset), integrating data into business strategies, changing cultural behaviors, changing approaches to application development, and enterprise architecture are some of the most daunting tasks for transforming “legacy” to “data-driven”. \nAligning the data strategy to the business strategy is now commonly accepted but making that a reality can be a daunting journey. When enterprise architecture considers data requirements to the same degree and at the same level as it considers business requirements, data-centric capabilities become embedded as foundational to the designs of enterprise solutions. This means considering the whole entirety of the enterprise architecture, not just the analytics or reporting portions for example, of the enterprise architecture. When data requirements are embedded in application requirements, the organization is forever playing catch-up. Data is “following” instead of “driving”. That is, the business constantly creates work-around solutions and performs non-value-added work to deal with gaps caused by unique and stove-piped data requirements created for each application. These application based data silos create greater risk and prevent the business from rapidly responding to the ever changing market place. \nThis presentation will provide insights into how enterprise architecture can be leveraged to instantiate a data-centric operating environment. Different enterprise operating models will be presented to demonstrate how the enterprise architecture can apply a data-centric approach to embed data-driven capabilities within the operating environment. Use cases will include a global financial services company and a donor-supported healthcare company. \nThe presentation will provide the following takeaways for the audience:\n