Data Governance, Integration, Quality, Preparation and KPI are now easier than ever with our RTG Application Backbone
Your time to solution has never been this brief!
- Focus even more on business requirements
- Take advantage of best practices
- Let Irion prepare components and detailed operating steps
Do it with the RTG Application Backbone!
Data Governance, Integration, Quality, Preparation and KPI are now easier than ever with our RTG Application Backbone
- Focus even more on business requirements
- Take advantage of best practices
- Let Irion prepare components and detailed operating steps
Do it with the RTG Application Backbone!
Irion’s expertise accelerates your business!
After years of engineering Data Management solutions, we created the RTG Application Backbone as “End User-oriented” modules to create integrated, complete and efficient enterprise Data Management solutions.
The modular architecture of RTG Application Backbone
A fully metadata driven and 360° Data Management
The RTG Application Backbone modules revolve around a common core Irion UpCore® and flexibly and intuitively respond to data models and constantly evolving processes.
Play
Flow
Dots
Blend
Shape
Glance
A single Enterprise Data Management solution providing:
- Orchestration and monitoring of automated processes
- Collaborative processes management with interactions between systems and manual tasks
Value chain and Data Management process support:
- Connection to external sources of data and metadata
- Model design
- Processing and control
- Results representation and accountability
Play
Flow
Play e Flow modules
A single Enterprise Data Management solution providing:
- Orchestration and monitoring of automated processes
- Collaborative processes management with interactions between systems and manual tasks
Dots
Blend
Shape
Glance
Irion Dots®, Blend, Shape and Glance modules
Value chain and Data Management process support:
- Connection to external sources of data and metadata
- Model design
- Processing and control
- Results representation and accountability
UpCore
Irion UpCore® modules
A centralized repository of all the metadata that govern Data Management processes:
- A tuned and active metadata system where metadata are not just cataloged, but they determine and drive the application and processes
- A centralized repository of all the operational data that are processed and, if necessary, persisted
RTG Application Backbone modules
Top-class feature for a disruptive boost
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S PERFORMING
Quickly manage millions of pieces of information.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S DECLARATIVE
Inspired by the Irion principle of Declarative Thinking, which allows focusing on context and objectives definition, delegating the automation of all technical aspects to the platform.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S FLEXIBLE
Based on a fully configurable model also designed for rapid prototyping: entities, attributes and connections can be created modified and deleted without losing existing data.
RTG 2020 IT’S VERSATILE
It’s possibilities of application are endless; RTG Application Backbone architecture is the evolution of a modeling environment that our specialists have been using for some time to organize data in projects for implementation of Data Governance, Regulatory banking and insurance Reporting solutions as well as GDPR Compliance.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S SEMANTIC
Browse information connections in a graphic and interactive way.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S AGILE
Natively equipped with versioning mechanisms, granular permissioning, historicization, approval workflow.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S COLLABORATIVE
It automatically coordinates simultaneous multiple team collaboration on the same project; it has a powerful approval workflow engine; it is designed to be used by business analysts, IT technicians, data officers, with dedicated functionalities for every role.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S ACTIVE
The data model is immediately available, you can integrate it with Irion solutions and all the power of the EDM platform including R advanced analytics. Even more, with the Dots APIs you can access and manage all data with other applications.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S PERFORMING
Quickly manage millions of pieces of information.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S DECLARATIVE
Inspired by the Irion principle of Declarative Thinking, which allows focusing on context and objectives definition, delegating the automation of all technical aspects to the platform.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S FLEXIBLE
Based on a fully configurable model also designed for rapid prototyping: entities, attributes and connections can be created modified and deleted without losing existing data.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S VERSATILE
It’s possibilities of application are endless; RTG Application Backbone architecture is the evolution of a modeling environment that our specialists have been using for some time to organize data in projects for implementation of Data Governance, Regulatory banking and insurance Reporting solutions as well as GDPR Compliance.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S SEMANTIC
Browse information connections in a graphic and interactive way.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S AGILE
Natively equipped with versioning mechanisms, granular permissioning, historicization, approval workflow.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S COLLABORATIVE
It automatically coordinates simultaneous multiple team collaboration on the same project; it has a powerful approval workflow engine; it is designed to be used by business analysts, IT technicians, data officers, with dedicated functionalities for every role.
RTG APPLICATION BACKBONE IT’S ACTIVE
The data model is immediately available, you can integrate it with Irion solutions and all the power of the EDM platform including R advanced analytics. Even more, with the Dots APIs you can access and manage all data with other applications.
RTG Application Backbone modules
Complex organization oriented
Flexibility and modularity
Opening and integration
Change tracking management
“Data Governance as a service” just a click away. Semantic, flexible, active.
Irion Dots® is the tool for modeling, connecting, representing data and metadata in a semantic graph. It also allows to explore them, discover their relationships and extract value for business. Dots provides advanced user-oriented and codeless tools for graph browsing and navigation. It is suitable for various Data Governance use scenarios (Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Impact Analysis) and for analysis of complex semantic graphs.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like to create and semantically enrich a Data Catalog
- I would like to answer business questions from the perspective of data governance as a service
- I would like to easily create a business glossary and connect it with technical metadata
- I would like to easily map roles and responsibilities in my data governance model
- I would like a simple representation and navigation of the dense network of semantic relations that unite the data
- I would like to quickly learn the change impacts to intercept and minimize risks
- I would like to identify and analyze the connections between entities with the help of Data Lineage and Impact Analysis
With Irion Dots® you can!
- “Schema free” modeling environment
- End user tools to represent and navigate the graph
- Common technical and business metadata management (business glossary)
- Semantic Maps: a technology to define sequence of successive graph expansions. It allows codeless creation of a multi-step, multi-level path of frequent inquiries
- Roles and privileges configuration for the model
- Easy configuration
- Perfect integration with the platform’s other modules. In accordance with data governance by design, they natively contribute to Dots their metadata.
With Irion Dots® you can!
- “Schema free” modeling environment
- End user tools to represent and navigate the graph
- Common technical and business metadata management (business glossary)
- Semantic Maps: a technology to define sequence of successive graph expansions. It allows codeless creation of a multi-step, multi-level path of frequent inquiries
- Roles and privileges configuration for the model
- Easy configuration
- Perfect integration with the platform’s other modules. In accordance with data governance by design, they natively contribute to Dots their metadata.
Irion Dots® in three steps
Name the Dots
Build the model: define entities and mutual relationship
Load the Dots
Populate the model: connect the sources and load the data (entities and relationship)
Explore the Connections
Navigate the graph: visualize even the non-evident connections and discover the hidden value for business.
Irion Dots® Key Elements
Data Governance as a Service
Choose an innovative approach to data governance
Free Modeling
Design your model with no constraints. You don’t have to adapt to the product. It is the product that adapts to you!
Semantic Graph
Enrich the model with semantics, navigate the relationships, explore your data
Easy exploration
Semantic maps and codeless queries for easy configuration and use
Declarative Data Integration: connect the sources, transform the data, feed your data pipelines.
Blend is the module for Data Integration and Data Transformation. It allows to configure data pipelines for data acquisition, data control, normalization and transformation. Blend has rich data transformation capabilities for: standardization, cleansing, conversion, look-up, replace, aggregation, enrichment, and more.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like to acquire data from external sources in any format
- I would like to catalog and classify all the sources I connect to
- I would like to visualize all data in table form regardless of their original format
- I would like to automatically verify the formal correctness of the data I read
- I would like the system to be able to adapt its input interfaces
- I would like to apply complex transformation logics while delegating their implementation to the engine
- I would like to be able to store data locally, but only if necessary and for the time necessary
With Blend you can!
- 200 + connectors to map and read data from external sources
- Standard “out of the box” reader
- Centralized catalog of all sources (Datastream)
- Automatic one-click generation of technical controls
- SQL-like transformation engine with declarative model (Transformation Stream)
- Perfect integration with other platform modules
Blend Key Elements
EAsT-Everything As a Table
Visualize and work with your data assets as if they were simple virtual tables
Metadata driven
Use metadata not only to catalog and describe your data but to drive your data pipelines execution
One Click rule generation
Automatically define technical and formal data controls with one click and using metadata
Declarative
Leverage on the declarative approach. Define the result while delegating it to the system to find the best way to obtain it
Rule Based Data Validation & Enrichment: give the right form to your data assets
Shape is the module for business rules configuration. It classifies, enriches and controls the data with a rule based approach. It allows to define a unified and centralized rules dictionary and document them in natural language. Shape provides an out-of-the-box set of types of rules that the user can easily parameterize.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like to control data quality from the business point of view
- I would like the classification and control rules to be clear and well documented
- I would like a dictionary of all rules regardless of the engine that implements them
- I would like an efficient and scalable rules execution engine
- I would like to extend my rules by applying AI&ML models
With Shape you can!
- Centralized dictionary of business & logical rules
- User Editor for rules configuration
- Various standard “out of the box” types of rules (condition based, trend, compare, domain, etc.)
- Plug-in model for Irion EDM R & Python engines
- Automatic documentation of rules in natural language
- Laboratory for rules testing
- Perfect integration with other platform modules
Shape Key Elements
Rule driven
Use the rules potential to classify, enrich and control your data
Natural Language Documentation
Automatically get the documentation of your rules in natural language
Augmented Data Quality
Enrich your rules and controls libraries using the native integration with R & Python engines
User Lab
Test the rules in the lab to verify them and tune their configuration
Data publishing & exploration: analyze, understand, decide.
Glance is a module that allows modeling and archiving your processing results (operational data, control statistics, KPIs, etc.). You can represent them via multi-template web dashboards and browse interactively.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like to have all the information useful for making decisions and taking actions
- I would like to configure flexibly which the data assets to publish and in what way
- I would like an active data exploration tool, which would be not just “read only”, but integrated with my operational processes: incident management, justification, remediation, etc.
- I would like data accountability and reporting to be based upon a database that is visible in clear and easily accessible via other BI tools
With Glance you can!
- Flexible model design and data publishing
- Personalized “star schema” configuration
- Columnar repository
- “By design” integration with other platform modules for governance and orchestration
- Page templates that can be configured with “codeless” mapping logics
- APIs for access with self-service BI and analytics tools
Glance Key Elements
Schema Free
Design your model for data publishing and representation with no constraints
Data at a Glance
Quickly build your dashboards with configurable templates
Drill-down & Drill-through
Explore data in detail thanks to multidimensional breakdowns
Columnar Storage
Optimize data access thanks to columnar mode
Data intensive process automation: data pipelines that come to life!
Play automates, orchestrates and monitors complex and data-intensive DM processes realized via various platform modules. It allows to design the structure of the process, define phases and steps, events, branches and junctions. Play provides a visual designer to create processes and a powerful orchestrator to drive them.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like maximum processes automation
- I would like a tool that would optimize executions and choose the most correct paths
- I would like a simple and intuitive way to govern constraints and dependencies
- I would like to optimize the use of resources
- I would like a simple way to integrate the processes into my target architecture
- I would like to ensure maximum traceability
With Play you can!
- Parametric engine that triggers and runs the executions in a completely event based framework
- Dynamic dependencies configuration, possibility to manage the executions based on parameters and parallelism levels configured for maximum scalability
- Event, switch, parallelism and dependency management
- Dynamic UIs for process activation and monitoring
Play Key Elements
Visual designer
For designing processes and dependencies
Performance and scalability
Guaranteed by the engine that uses the full potential of Irion EDM platform
Event based
For code-free management of all the intricacies of the process
Business Process & Collaboration: govern the processes. Now you can!
Approval workflows, incident management, data governance, data justification or data remediation processes are no longer a problem. With Flow, you can design, activate and monitor your company’s collaborative processes that involve users with different roles and privileges. Flow allows you to configure states, manage human tasks, oversee actions and notifications, send emails. Besides, it is integrated with Play and other RTG Application Backbone modules. There is also a powerful visual designer for codeless workflow configuration.
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like to freely design the workflows that govern my information streams, reduce noise and make processes tidy
- I would also like to freely configure the actors and roles that collaborate in the workflow
- I would like to monitor top down all the executions running so as to know at what point the processes are and who is in charge of them at all times
- I would like to trace and log every execution and every step. I would also like to store all the used configuration parameters for audit purposes
- I would like a workflow that moves forward automatically, generating events and reacting to external ones
- I would like an integration between automatic steps and human tasks
- I would like to send notifications and run the actions assigned to me via simple dedicated interfaces
With Flow you can!
- Visual Editor for process design
- Free process states configuration, manual or automated transitions, notifications and emails, actions
- Custom users, roles and privileges definition
- Dynamic UIs based on workflow configuration
- Centralized Execution Monitor that allows to view which processes are running and in what state
- Task Summary that allows each user according to their role to see the tasks that are open and assigned to them for any type of workflow
- Task List to see the details on open tasks for a specific workflow
- Task Manager to manage the progress of human tasks
- APIs to integrate with external tools and realize custom workflows
Shape Key Elements
Visual flow design
Direct graphical design of your processes
Collaboration & sharing
Act promptly, collaborate and be always updated thanks to alerts, notifications and collaborative tools
Process Audit
Trace all data and configurations securely, effectively document every performed step
Real Time Monitoring
Control the precise progress of your workflows with integrated monitoring dashboards
Everything you need as a basis for your data management solutions. Integration, openness and flexibility!
Irion UpCore® is at the core of data management solutions built with RTG Application Backbone. With Irion UpCore® , you can construct the backbone of your data management solutions in a flexible yet solid way. It is a unified catalog of all “active” metadata that drive the executions. Collaborative and distributed Change Management tools enable the DataOps paradigm and allow to configure roles, privileges and visibility funnels. In the meantime, dynamic APIs facilitate the integration with the target application architecture. UpCore also provides two different modes of data modeling and data persistence: Graph Data Model (for data modeling in graph form) and Tabular Data Model (for storing data in relational repositories).
Is this what you are looking for?
- I would like a unified catalog for all metadata that govern my DM processes
- I would like to trace and version metadata changes over time
- I would like to store data in a flexible model that automatically adapts to the various types of entities it involves
- I would like to centrally manage roles, privileges and visibility funnels to implement and govern processes
- I would like to pursue an agile and incremental approach
- I would like a modular solution which is open and easy to integrate with the target architecture
With Irion UpCore® you can!
- Unified Metadata Catalog
- Tabular Data Model for storing data in relational/columnar repositories of various structure
- Graph Data Model for data modeling in graph form
- Distributed and collaborative change management tools: Playground, Userlab, Sandboxing
- Changeline management and metadata versioning
- Integrated configurations of roles and priveleges at the attribute level
- Irion EDM is API-based both in confuguration and in read/write use
- Distributed and multi-node architecture support
Irion UpCore® Key Elements
Governance by design
Choose the data governance by design approach: a unified metadata repository, integrated roles and privileges management, complete integration with all Irion EDM platform modules
Agile Deployment & DataOps
Simplify new solutions release and activation with collaborative change management tools
Fast integration
UpCore dynamic APIs reduce the effort spent on integration with external tools
Visual flow design
Simplify data structures definition thanks to the autoadaptive and “schema free” model