Advancing open, interoperable, and community-driven data ecosystems.

Mission Statement

The Open Data Platform Group brings together practitioners, architects, and innovators to define open standards, share best practices, and build a sustainable foundation for interoperable data platforms.

What is a Data Platform ?

A Data Platform is not simply a piece of software that can easily be identified.

A Data Platform is a combination of software, patterns, tools and operating models. It facilitates the paradigm where storage and compute are separated. It consolidates the enterprise data realm bringing cohesion to disjointed data. It blurs the lines between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses creating a unified system for managing, analysing and processing large datasets.

A Data Platform is not the same across different enterprises. Unlike software which has a defined task (eg EDM Enterprise Data Management), a Data Platform will vary from organisation to organisation. But to be a called a Data Platform it must enable all data within an organisation to be accessible by all.

At its core, the Data Platform removes the need to copy data. There is no “Golden Source” – there is just a single source of truth for the data. This is help within the Data Platform and accessed by all.

Advantages of a Data Platform

Single Source of Truth : No more conflicting reports or spreadsheets. No more reconciliation of disparate data sets.

Built in Scalability : As your data volume or velocity increases the Platform can scale to deal with the changes. Each component should be able to scale independently. New data sources can be added without worrying about performance issues.

Known Data Quality : Data Quality issues reported centrally. Data Quality specified differently according to usage requirements.

Data Governance Built in : Data Lineage, Discovery and usage automatically applied on all data sets.