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Why Data Vault 2.0 is worth using in your business

You already know what Data Vault is, but how do you know if it’s worth the investment for you and your business? Keep reading to find out how that Data Vault can help you take back control of your data and elevate your business’s potential.


8 BENEFITS OF DATA VAULT IN YOUR BUSINESS

  1. EASE OF INTEGRATION

  2. AUDITABILITY

  3. OWNED BY THE BUSINESS

  4. SCALABILITY

  5. ADAPTABILITY

  6. AUTOMATION-DRIVEN PRODUCTIVITY

  7. AGILE WAYS OF WORKING

  8. ENTERPRISE-WIDE COVERAGE


EASE OF INTEGRATION

Data Vault 2.0 is particularly efficient at combining different data sources around addressable keys – the hubs and links in a data model. This helps your business intelligence (BI) team to deliver insight from a variety of different datasets. Data lineage is a big strength of the Data Vault method. The reversibility of it means that your BI teams can go back to key timelines in the data’s history and undo any necessary changes made to your data.


AUDITABILITY

You want to be sure that your data is stored with full traceability, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance considered. Data loaded into Data Vault is an exact copy of the Data from the source at the time you load it. Data lineage ensures that you can trace your information back to the original source system.


OWNED BY THE BUSINESS

Data Vault is focused on the business, not on technology or source systems. This business-oriented approach is one of the keys to long-term success because it gives the flexibility to change over the long term.


SCALABILITY

You can rest assured knowing that Data Vault 2.0 is a proven method capable of handling everything from gigabytes to petabytes. Regardless of your business’s size, your data platform will grow without the need for any changes to the architecture.

There are multiple dimensions to scalability. Workload, integration, data complexity, teaming, and agility all contribute to what makes something scalable. Data Vault 2.0 simplifies the development process by automating many of the redundant steps.


ADAPTABILITY

When your data is coming from multiple source systems, or if it has constant changing relationships, Data Vault 2.0’s adaptability give you the ability to tackle these common issues. It reduces your need to refactor when source systems, or when new technologies are added or changed.


AUTOMATION-DRIVEN PRODUCTIVITY

Data Vault 2.0 also provides greater productivity within your team, helping you to reduce costs. This is because you’re able to use smaller skilled teams and still improve the long-term maintainability of the code by using automation tools. Data Vault is pattern based so it is possible to automatically generate between 80 – 85% of the ETL required for loading data into the Data Vault. There’s a variety of commercial tools such as WhereScape, VaultSpeed and Datavault Builder as well as an open-source tool AutomateDV.


AGILE WAYS OF WORKING

Data Vault offers a unique approach to building your new data platform. It supports an agile project approach. Data Vault 2.0 provides you with the opportunity to break down the process into smaller, manageable steps. The new agile ways of working means engineers can configure one element of a system, adding new data sources incrementally. Creating a working prototype will never be easier or cheaper for you than with Data Vault.


ENTERPRISE-WIDE COVERAGE

You’re able to model different aspects of your organisation using Data Vault 2.0 modelling techniques. The inherent flexibility allows you to build incrementally and tie each aspect together as well as taking an enterprise view of your entire business.


SUMMARY

In summary, Data Vault 2.0 offers your business valuable features that you can use in your data platform modernisation projects. The Data Vault User Group is a community of Data Vault experts, trainers, and users, always willing to share their experiences and knowledge. Their Data Vault Q&A forum offers a unique opportunity to ask and answer questions that fellow Data Vault users might be struggling with. Join the community here to learn more.

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