Unified Data Integration System for Enterprise Governance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current data management systems lack a unified approach for effective data governance, leading to inefficiencies, inaccuracies, and scalability issues in integrating and curating enterprise data across multiple platforms, resulting in poor data veracity and increased resource duplication.

Innovation Solution

A data integration and curation system utilizing AI and ML for data cataloging, personalization, and governance, which creates a centralized data hub for validating data veracity and enabling smart data consumption by classifying and annotating data across various platforms, ensuring data quality and security through role-based access and anomaly detection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple data platforms and repositories are used to cater to different data processing requirements, then data processing flexibility and specialization are improved, but data duplication and resource investment increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata processing flexibilityVSAvoiddata duplication
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a unified data management approach that merges multiple data platforms into a single integrated system. The system consolidates data from disparate sources while maintaining the ability to process different data types and requirements, thereby eliminating data duplication while preserving processing flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The data management system is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle various data processing requirements within a single platform. It provides universal data processing, storage, and retrieval functions that can accommodate different operational needs without requiring separate specialized systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If each operation and unit maintains its own data tools for discovery, curation, cataloging, governance, and sharing, then operational autonomy and specialization are improved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational autonomyVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data management functions into modular components that can be independently accessed and configured by different operations and units. Each user or department can customize their data discovery, curation, and governance tools according to their specific needs while the system maintains overall integration and coordination.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a centralized data management platform that acts as an intermediary between different operations and units. This mediator coordinates data access, governance, and sharing across the organization, reducing integration complexity while preserving operational autonomy through standardized interfaces and protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If data is spread across disparate sources and each source maintains its own data, then data source independence and local optimization are improved, but data veracity and unified governance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata source independenceVSAvoiddata veracity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor and validate data quality across all data sources. Data veracity is maintained through automated quality checks, consistency validation, and feedback loops that ensure data accuracy while preserving the independence of individual data sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines data from multiple independent sources into a unified data structure that maintains data veracity. The system integrates data while implementing validation rules and governance protocols that ensure consistency and accuracy across all incorporated data sources.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Adaptability or versatility

If different operations and units process and sanitize the same data differently, then operational customization and specific requirements fulfillment are improved, but data consistency and governance uniformity worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational customizationVSAvoiddata consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows different operations and units to apply customized data processing and sanitization methods according to their specific requirements. Each department can configure local data quality rules and processing parameters while the system maintains overall data consistency through a unified governance framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The data processing system is designed to be dynamic and adaptable, allowing processing methods to change based on operational needs while maintaining data consistency. The system can adjust data sanitization and processing parameters dynamically while ensuring that final data outputs meet unified governance standards.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11481412B2Data integration and curation
Publication Date: 2022.10.25 ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LTD
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AI summary

Examples of a data integration and curation system are provided. The system may receive data extracting requirement related to a digital initiative and obtain digital initiative data associated with the same. The system may classify the digital initiative data into various data domains and extract metadata therefrom based on data analysis. The system may determine a word index including a plurality of words from a knowledge database. The plurality of words may be mapped with the data domains to identify a data anomaly in the digital initiative data. The system may determine an anomaly correction for resolving the data anomaly and update the plurality of data domains to include the anomaly correction. The system may identify a user parameter associated with the digital initiative. The system may associate the user parameter with the metadata to create user parameter data associated with the user parameter to generate a data extraction result.