Creating an Information Edge

An Industry Insight feature with Jeff Goins of Adaptive Inc

Jeff Goins, President and CEO of Adaptive Inc, explains the importance of effectively managing critical information and demanding collaboration between business and technology.

“It's challenging to create data governance processes that cross multiple departments and business units to protect data, meet business goals and comply with regulations.”
-David Newman, Gartner

Whether you are the leader of a Global 2000 Enterprise, a local government, or a small business, certain truths prevail. Stiff competition emerges from unanticipated quarters. New global markets form and traditional markets shrink. Delivering value to customers often means harnessing completely new resources and processes. And there's likely to be more regulation over how you conduct your business, not less.

Companies that thrive continuously re-align business teams to evolving strategies. They keep everyone on the same page by delivering critical information to ever-broader audiences. Effectively managing and governing that delivery demands new approaches and collaboration between business and technology.

Bridging the communication divide

"Suddenly, IT departments everywhere have been charged by the CEO, CFO, and Audit Committee with making the company compliant, because many of the laws carry personal liability penalties for officers and directors of corporations." Tony Noblett, Microsoft Corporation.

"Governing corporate data may be slightly easier than governing nations... It's challenging to create data governance processes that cross multiple departments and business units to protect data, meet business goals and comply with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley," David Newman, Gartner.

Adaptive solutions meet this challenge by bringing the voices of business and technology together, uniting subject matter experts with the business users who rely upon them. Together they communicate, collaborate and network their expertise to transform data into information and define the appropriate governance of critical assets and processes. By serving business needs today they also lay the foundation for consolidating and simplifying information management over time.

Adaptive streamlines collaboration between business and technology, merging complimentary perspectives into a single view for today, and a common vision for the future.

Deliver value early and often

Adaptive customers benefit from a foundation of mature technology to begin immediately delivering clear business value. Based on over a decade of continual advances and adhering closely to industry standards, our solutions ensure the highest degree of interoperability across a broad range of activities.

Adaptive delivers the most comprehensive solution available for organizing, managing and governing complex data and information environments today while steadily improving them for tomorrow. Raise the quality of your information management through advanced capabilities in collaboration, networking in-house experts and step-by-step wizards and guides, combined with rich graphical visualization and automated workflow and change management.

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Solutions

Adaptive solutions allow you to quickly deploy exciting services for all types of users:
Collaborate across a network of experts

• Locate and leverage subject matter experts
• Define a vocabulary for how you do business and why
• Contribute personal knowledge for reuse by others
• Highlight peer recognition for contributions and excellence
• Exchange best practices and common solutions
• Raise awareness and communicate successes

Create step-by-step wizards and guides

• Respond to data governance issues and track outcomes
• Contribute a new business glossary entry
• Report the current state of critical data quality
• Identify potential source data for a new report

Provide rich graphical interaction

• Map high-level concepts like classifications to actual data objects
• Leverage familiar images and concepts to create rich navigation maps
• Display exactly how data moves from one place to another
• Represent the past, present and future state of information management

Automate workflow and change management

• Allow users to contribute expertise freely and visibly
• Automate peer reviews and official publication processes
• Define processes tailored to your information culture
• Collaborate on updating and managing information
• Facilitate reuse, and manage change over different scenarios and timescales