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Articles January 9, 2025

Enabling Decision Intelligence with the ADEPT Accelerator

Cameron Snapp
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Cameron Snapp

Business leaders are constantly grappling with critical questions: Should we expand or downsize? Discontinue a product or launch something new? Data holds the answers, but raw data alone isn’t a crystal ball. Without structure, analysis, and contextual understanding, it’s just noise.

Businesses still operating on outdated technology, like legacy systems and fragmented information, simply don’t have the capabilities needed to harness their data for effective decision-making. To break free from the cycle of uncertainty, businesses need a modern, integrated data ingestion infrastructure that enables Decision Intelligence.

What is Decision Intelligence?

Decision Intelligence is an innovative approach to data modernization that blends data analysis, artificial intelligence (AI), and human judgement to empower businesses with actionable insights. Decision Intelligence goes beyond number crunching and algorithms to unlock the true potential of your data, allowing organizations to make smarter choices and fuel business success. Legacy systems and data siloes can create a challenging environment for decision intelligence. Here’s why: 

    Disparate data sets hinder analytics by making data inaccessible

    Lack of a cohesive analytics strategy causes confusion and misalignment, ultimately undermining data decisions

    Insufficient data stewardship leads to costly data lineage and compliance issues

    Legacy data processes delays data onboarding and stunts scalability

    Information siloes and decentralizations results in inconsistent answers and information mistrust.

    The ADEPT Solution

    ADEPT, a CapTech accelerator, is a fast, powerful way to modernize data ingestion to help overcome these obstacles and enable peak Decision Intelligence. As a scalable, metadata-driven ingestion solution, ADEPT lets businesses quickly put their data in place to effectively answer important business questions.

    By standardizing and streamlining the loading and processing of data from various systems to a centralized data platform, ADEPT empowers businesses to:

    • Accelerate ingestion
    • Enhance flexibility 
    • Customize curation rules 
    • Increase time to value

    ADEPT’s impact on enterprise analytics is undeniable: improved efficiency, data quality, scalability, and governance that all leads to faster, more effective decision-making and cost reductions. 

    ADEPT is built on a robust, scalable, and flexible foundation, comprising: 

    • Metadata catalog stores asset configurations
    • Logging ensures monitoring and re-startability​ 
    • Ingestion regulates secure system connectivity
    • Orchestrator manages scheduling, routing, dependencies, and parallel processing
    • Processor controls data operations using standardized and reusable routines​ 
    • Flexible storage services supported using the same orchestration and logging codebase​

    The ADEPT Difference

    ADEPT’s dynamic, code-driven approach accelerates the modernization process while maintaining data quality and encouraging customization. By deploying it directly to your cloud environment and implementing continuous integration and delivery, we can ensure rapid initial deployment and ongoing maintenance.

    Applying custom rules through a standardized approach further distinguishes ADEPT. CapTech’s solution lets you select your preferred storage and computing services, and create customized analytics datasets tailored specifically to your business needs. We also customize ADEPT to your source system, dataset behaviors, and business requirements to deliver a fully customized analytic data model that supports your business reports, KPIs, and consumption processes.

    ADEPT is also extremely reliable. By using a consistent approach and shared codebase across its implementation, the logging and transparency are always uniform. In other words, no matter where or how ADEPT is implemented, the way it records and displays system information remains consistent and predictable.

    This reliability empowers organizations to precisely track data access and movement through different data zones and create an audit trail of data lineage showing exactly how data is accessed, transformed, and transferred across various stages of processing.

    The result is enhanced data integrity and traceability that improves transparency, supports compliance efforts, and provides critical insights for data-driven decision making.

    ADEPT in Action

    To better understand how ADEPT handles real-world challenges, let’s examine a recent project CapTech undertook for a National Restaurant Chain.

    The client wanted to bring its analytic capabilities in-house, but its data was stuck in a vendor's system, restricting the restaurant chain to a specific series of reports. To provide the CFO and business leaders with accurate intelligence, multiple analysts had to manually curate monthly reports, which only offered limited insights.

    To automate these processes and enable a more powerful Decision Intelligence engine, CapTech knew they needed to bring the client’s data in house and establish a customized curated zone of analytic datasets. Using ADEPT, we designed and implemented a cloud-hosted data analytics platform to provide granular insights to sales performance and goals. This required developing scalable architecture and repeatable methods for 70+ dataset ingestions, processing, and reporting.

    By standing up a modern data ingestion system in less than six months, we empowered business leaders with Decision Intelligence and saved the company 500 man-hours a month. We also enabled over 10 previously unavailable views of operational data, implemented a new Master Data Management tool, and eliminated the client's dependency on vendors for reporting.

    Organizations struggling with long IT delivery timelines and rapidly deploying analytics use cases can benefit from ADEPT.

      Common Scenarios

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      Transitioning analytic capabilities to the cloud

      Migrating away from traditional ETL/static pipelines

      Transitioning from a data warehouse to a datalake or lakehouse

      Undergoing mergers and acquisitions and struggling with data standardization, Master Data Management, or cross application reporting

      Data Points the Way

      For businesses seeking to enable data-driven decision making, a modernized data ingestion system is crucial. ADEPT offers a tailored solution to integrate and centralize your data, transforming raw information into critical business insights. By streamlining the engineering process, ADEPT dramatically reduces the time and effort required to build a robust analytics platform, so you can focus on moving your business forward.