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How digital documents deliver on Gartner’s top 10 data analytics trends

How digital documents deliver on Gartner’s top 10 data analytics trends

May 19, 2022 | Digital Data Fabric, Digital Documents, Digital Transformation

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An accelerated pace of change and the need for greater agility is increasing the demand for more consumable analytics. Read our analysis to see how incorporating Digital Documents into your digital strategy is creating digital leaders. Here we look at Gartner’s top 10 data analytics trends to show just how impactful digital documents can be.

1. Smarter, more responsible, scalable AI

According to Gartner, “Smarter, more responsible, scalable AI will enable better learning algorithms, interpretable systems, and shorter time to value. This means that AI technology must be able to operate with less data via “small data” techniques and adaptive machine learning.”

How Digital Documents respond

Digital documents can incorporate third-party code, plug-ins, and integration ware to extend the out-of-the-box design elements provided as standard. Therefore, very pointy problems and fine-grained tasks can be addressed at the edge of the enterprise—at scale. Hence why adopting digital documents sets a smarter and more adaptive balance between IT and ‘the business.’ IT experts can be brought in with high-code or low-code tools to embellish digital documents with artificial intelligence and software bots. Which make decisions, orchestrate workflows, pre-process data, and learn new things from patterns of data, etc.

According to Gartner, “Composing new digital solutions from the packaged business capabilities of each promotes productivity and agility. This is achieved using (served-up) components from multiple data, analytics, and AI solutions for a flexible, user-friendly, and usable experience. Therefore enabling leaders to connect data insights to business actions.”

2. Composable Data and Analytics

According to the Gartner report “Adopt a Composable DXP Strategy to Future-Proof Your Tech Stack,” 60% of mainstream organizations will use the composable business model as a strategic objective by 2023.

How Digital Documents respond

What makes digital documents the ideal substrate for serving up composable data and analytics at the edge of the enterprise comes from their versatility, adaptability, and federated nature. Digital documents respond to growing pressures to offer individuals and departments autonomy and empowerment. While all the time de-skilling technical complexity. However, for most IT leaders, the bigger win is to prevent a potential nightmarish appdev free-for-all as the consumerization of IT extends to citizen developers authoring apps unregulated by IT.

3. Data Fabric is the Foundation

According to Gartner, “As data becomes increasingly complex and digital business accelerates, data fabric is the architecture that will support composable data and analytics and its various components. Data fabric reduces the time for integration design by 30%, deployment by 30%, and maintenance by 70% because the technology designs draw on the ability to use/reuse and combine different data integration styles.”

How Digital Documents respond

Digital document architectures, like Encanvas, rest on a Digital Data Fabric to bring coherency, control, security, and governance. However, most specifically accessibility to quality data for businesspeople. Using digital documents does indeed allow business people to serve themselves with ways to capture, interpret, manage, publish, share, and store information. Of course, these are characteristically the roles performed previously in businesses by hard-copy documents. Combining digital documents with a digital data fabric equips these digital articles with (as Gartner puts it) ‘…the ability to use/reuse and combine different data integration styles.’

4. From Big to Small and Wide Data

According to Gartner, “Smarter, more responsible, scalable AI will enable better learning algorithms, interpretable systems, and shorter time to value. This means that AI technology must be able to operate with less data via “small data” techniques and adaptive machine learning.”

How Digital Documents respond

Pressures for data insights are so numerous, and so adaptive, across any enterprise these days. Hence why no central data analytics repository or capability could ever hope to satisfy all needs all the time. Above all, delivering ‘small data’ solutions widely across the enterprise demands more fluid, yet sublimely joined up and well thought out digital substrates. In a world of platforms and federated systems, digital documents uniquely offer the autonomy and dexterity needed to achieve this. They do this by pushing innovation to the extremities of the enterprise.

5. XOps

According to Gartner, “The goal of XOps (data, machine learning, model, platform) is to achieve efficiencies and economies of scale using DevOps best practices — and to ensure reliability, reusability, and repeatability while reducing the duplication of technology and processes and enabling automation.”

How Digital Documents respond

Should digital documents operate in a similar uncontrolled way as office desktop documents are used today? One can imagine some form of dystopian digital carnage happening across the enterprise. Thankfully, digital document platforms like Encanvas offer a three-tier architecture that contains and fully frames the use of data and digital documents. It means endpoints are protected, permissions are governed, and a higher (not lower) standard of operational control and governance is stamped on enterprise IT architectures.

6.  Engineering Decision Intelligence

According to Gartner, “Engineering decision intelligence applies to not just individual decisions, but also to sequences of decisions, grouping them into business processes and even networks of emergent decision making. When combined with composability and common data fabric, this enables organizations to more quickly gain insights needed to drive actions for the business.”

How Digital Documents respond

This serves to emphasize how any useful digital document architecture for the enterprise must reside on a foundational digital data fabric. In the case of Encanvas, digital data fabrics can coexist in digital cloud spaces. With each space being configured and governed by enterprise IT. This enforced balance of power between the governing layer of enterprise IT, and the consumerization of IT made possible by digital documents points to a successful and sustainable approach to information management that is proving to work admirably for digital leaders.

7. Data and Analytics as a Core Business

According to Gartner, “Business leaders are beginning to understand the importance of using data and analytics to accelerate digital business initiatives. Instead of being a secondary focus — completed by a separate team — data and analytics are shifting to a core function. However, business leaders often underestimate the complexities of data and end up missing opportunities.”

How Digital Documents respond

The use of digital documents as a readily accessible (and, as we’ve just covered, highly controlled) consumption layer of composable data allows business leaders to accelerate innovation plans. As Gartner suggests above, decisions surrounding data access, coherency, and quality are being made as part of digital document publishing initiatives across the enterprise. Partly, the success of codeless agile development methods comes from producing live wireframes. These combine real data, so that any data quality shortcomings or shortfalls come to light as digital documents are authored.

8. Graph relates everything

According to Gartner, “as many as 50% of its client inquiries around the topic of AI involve a discussion around the use of graph technology. Graph forms the foundation of modern data and analytics. Although graph technologies are not new to data and analytics, there has been a shift in the thinking around them as organizations identify an increasing number of use cases.”

How Digital Documents respond

Digital documents over unrivaled opportunities to embed sophisticated Graph solutions into rich media articles. One of the technology innovations that makes this possible is HyperDrive from Encanvas. This is a universal data plug that allows IT architects to consume existing applets, plug-ins, data visualization tools, data sources, APIs, and more. Which adds more horsepower to native design tools.

9. The rise of the Augmented Consumer

According to Gartner, “Traditionally, business users were restricted to predefined dashboards and manual data exploration. Often, this meant data and analytics dashboards were restricted to answering predefined questions. Moving forward, Gartner believes these dashboards will be replaced with automated, conversational, mobile, and dynamically generated insights customized to a user’s needs and delivered to their point of consumption.”

How Digital Documents respond

Digital documents are the ideal digital construct to support fine-grained consumer-driven analytics personalized to the action insight needs of the department or user. One of the bigger opportunities for digital documents moving forward is their role in facilitating curiosity across the enterprise. Additionally, to source answers to new questions as they emerge.

10. D&A at the Edge

According to Gartner, “As more data analytics technologies begin to live outside of the traditional data center and cloud environments, they’re moving closer to the physical assets, reducing or eliminating latency. Shifting data and analytics to the edge will open opportunities for data teams to scale capabilities and extend impact into different parts of the business. It can also provide solutions for situations where data can’t be removed from specific geographies for legal or regulatory reasons.”

How Digital Documents respond

Digital documents are the ideal digital construct to federate and democratize data analytics. Which in turn provides access to rich data analysis at the point of use.

Final thoughts—The Top Line

In summary, it is the known ambition of organizations to live and breathe digital and to augment people and decisions through actionable data insights. This is to attain the win. Win of (1) maximizing customer experience and personalization while applying hyper-automation methods and tools to lower service costs through automation.

As part of this agenda, Gartner points to the need for information systems that serve as a great opportunity for business leaders and decision-makers. It allows them to serve up their own fine-grained insights by having greater empowerment.

Fundamental to this newly empowered digital cultural philosophy is the ability to embrace new technologies in an active, dynamic, data-rich environment characterized by composable data gathered and consumed on the edge of the enterprise ‘where business happens.’

Documents, once the operational cornerstone of every business have come full circle with new digital document constructs. Today, as before, they are the workhorse glueware needed to bridge across systems, departments, and organizations. Which equips business people to build, personalize, tailor, apply and orchestrate communications and business processes without deep technical skills.

Digital documents deliver:

  1. The optimal balance of accessibility—thanks to their codeless make-up that de-skills authoring and management.
  2. Agility—served up through rapid time-to-value and ease of change.
  3. Enterprise-grade coherency—operating as they do across a digital data fabric that ensures deployed digital document solutions satisfy scalability, data governance, cybersecurity, and operational effectiveness qualifiers.
What can you do with digital documents?

What can you do with digital documents?

May 19, 2022 | Customer Data Platform, Data Management, Digital Documents, Digital Transformation, Software Development

Types of digital documents

Digital documents are a revolutionary tool enabling digital transformation for businesses. Discover some of the types of digital documents you can create using Encanvas.

Rich Media Content Experience

Content experience documents are all about engaging audiences in more impactful ways. A digital brochure (or eBook) combines rich media to produce persuasive, professionally crafted digital content. Rich media content—containing elements such as videos, testimonials, facts presented through interactive graphics, visualizations, etc.—increases stakeholder engagement, and improves customer experience, maximizing information consumption and use.

According to research into the opinions of 538 digital marketers conducted by Lemonlight in 2021, 81% plan to include video content in their marketing strategy over the next several years, while 94% said watching video content has helped them make a purchase decision at least once. Of those, 72% were swayed by a product video.

Distance Learning Courseware

Distance learning has transformed education. Digital courseware makes it faster and easier for courseware designers to design and publish courses. Furthermore, once published, digital courseware is a lot easier to update. One of its advantages comes from the ability to track learning journeys; sometimes, recording training and training results is essential for compliance.

Digital documents bring distance learning course development into the digital age. Take existing PowerPoint courseware and upgrade it to digital online courses in minutes. Use courses stand-alone or leverage an eLearning platform to manage them.

Web Forms

Web forms are another digital document example, as they’re used to capture data from customers and turn back-office processes into self-service experiences. Automating processes in this way not only improves customer experience by making more services on-demand but also increases customer engagement while reducing service costs.

Often, human-in-the-loop processes are re-engineered with the minimum amount of effort or fuss. Having captured data, workflow rules can be automated by software bots that also track and record customer interactions into Customer Data Platforms.

We’ve made forms integration with websites simpler too. Using Encanvas digital documents, web forms can be implemented as stand-alone solutions or be closely integrated with existing data repositories. Publish forms as secured permissions-based iFrames within existing websites, or link to public or private forms using dedicated URLs for direct access.

Digital Assistants

Software bots are great at recording transactions, making ‘micro-decisions’ across the enterprise, for harvesting and cleansing data, and moving it between locations. Many of the tedious tasks previously performed by humans and spreadsheet-powered data processing applications can be displaced by enterprise-grade IT solutions made possible by digital documents.

Spreadsheet Replacement and Micro Task Automation

While spreadsheets are versatile, they’re also labor-intensive. Give your knowledge workers more time to deliver value to customers and make a positive impact on innovation and business improvements by displacing spreadsheet apps with enterprise-grade digital document solutions. Our digital documents are powered by robots. That means, much of the heavy lifting that humans have previously done to capture, process, manage and analyze data can be discharged by software bots through automation.

Information Bridging GlueWare

Is your eCommerce front-end website fully automated with back-end systems? If so, then you’re ahead of the curve! Most organizations have a portion of their back-office data processing that goes ‘offline.’ This adds costs to service delivery costs while delaying customer requests and responses. Bottlenecks emerge and customer experience decays. The alternative is to use digital documents to bridge between systems and processes to create a ‘fully digital’ environment. The ability to leverage digital technologies to dramatically escalate time to value for digital transformations is increasingly being described as hyper-automation.

Data visualization

The possibilities to present and make sense of data using rich data visualization tools have grown dramatically thanks to innovations in cloud computing and big data tooling. Visualizations might come in the form of interactive maps used to track assets, parcels, people, vehicles or drones, or spatial charts and graphs that highlight key data attributes that would otherwise remain hidden to users.

Data processing

Arguably, the single biggest reason businesses invest in enterprise IT is to formalize and automate processes. Not so long ago, the way to do this was to invest in Systems of Record (SoR)—like Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft—that promised best practice data processing ‘templates’ that catered for the majority need and offered the assurety of robust and resilient data management and processing.

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Digital documents and composability

May 18, 2022 | Digital Documents, Digital Transformation

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Why digital documents hold the secret to composability

“Organizations practicing high levels of business composability are operating one to two years ahead of their peers.”—Gartner, 2002

A focus on survival is not a sustainable business strategy

Mindset is everything in business culture. Attitudes following the COVID-19 pandemic followed two tracks.

The first was to survive the turmoil, or worse still, to lock up the shutters and hope the storm blows over soon. These negative, submissive, attitudes around the boardroom table lead to an investment strategy best described as containment, not invention. Simply aiming to reinforce stability in a turbulent world is a losing strategy when change is a constant.

What’s become apparent, is that businesses are prepared to see the risk of change to be an opportunity, not an existential threat, fair better. They are more successful, and more fleet of foot to grasp the nettle and ride on the waves of market changes.

Naturally, to make confident decisions in a data-driven world requires the installation of an organizational design that’s fit for purpose. And, according to Gartner, what that looks like is the triumvirate of composable thinking, resourcing, and technology.

Composable business design constructs

So says Gartner, composable business designs prepare leaders to make decisions that would have been too risky without the architecture of composability. Put simply, it’s about equipping leaders to make sweeping changes to a strategy with the confidence provided by two main things:

  1. Good market and performance data, and by having a resourcing and;
  2. A service delivery capability that’s prepared for change and adaptive enough to make changes in direction without inflicting a long tail of costs.

Break-down point number two on this shortlist, and we can quickly pinpoint some areas of business design that ARE NOT currently adaptive enough to cope with change. These are:

  1. Enterprise IT—and specifically centralized data analytics and inflexible SaaS and backroom applications.
  2. Supply chain—particularly workforce resourcing agenda

According to the Gartner report “Adopt a Composable DXP Strategy to Future-Proof Your Tech Stack,” 60% of mainstream organizations will use the composable business model as a strategic objective by 2023.

A time to rethink organizational design and the shape of IT

To attain the organizational ‘agiliization’ being highlighted by Gartner demands that traditional approaches to how some of the structural decisioning that goes on in an enterprise is adapted.

This mindset change, for many mature organizations, can be the most difficult obstacle to overcome. Generally, resourcing and IT behaviors become entrenched in organizational structures, leading to department leaders squabbling for budget and resources.

Steering a course through this internal conflict is non-trivial and requires strong leadership. Even when the mindset issue is resolved, the elephant in the room will be the bigger question of how to realign and rightsize IT.

The composable digital business

The composable digital business design brings together three elements of mindset, technology architecture and approach.

According to Gartner, a composable digital business applies the core principles of composability (modularity, autonomy, orchestration and discovery) to the foundations of its business architecture (the business model, enterprise operations and strategy) in order to master the risk of change and reach untapped business value. (Source: Becoming composable, Gartner Insight Report, 2022)

core design principles

Adopting this approach means that every aspect of the business and its tech stack is seen as modular and changeable. But, what are the mechanics and components of this new architectural philosophy?

The composable information architecture

Digital data fabric

The foundation of a composable digital business is a digital data fabric. This is an umbrella layer of information management spread across the enterprise (like a fabric) to harvest and manage data. Pre-preparing data integrity and sourcing for composition—for example by installing APIs and data linkages to all of the sources of data—brings the added agility to add more without coding or scripting. Another feature of digital data fabric technology is the ability to underpin new custom data capture, processing and analysis solutions needed to adapt the data management design over time.

Production of ready-to-consume data made possible by a digital data fabric makes time to value of new information solutions more attractive. It also makes it simpler to produce more fine-grained information solutions at the edge of the enterprise, where customer engagement and data decisioning increasingly happen. Adopting this federated approach to data analytics reduces latency and further accelerates the pace of change.

Digital cloud spaces

Ideally, any digital data fabric should itself reside on an autonomous cloud container that can be replicated, adapted, scaled, governed, and secured using cloud clustering methods and principles. This ensures a high level of future-proofing while installing appropriate cybersecurity safeguards and IT governance policies—all while offering lower support and maintenance operating costs.

Federated consumption

Data preparedness—in the form of a digital data fabric—is essential to the composable business model. So too is giving decision-makers and information workers the means to leverage insight to create new communications, processes, data capture mechanisms, and source answers to new questions.

To equip decision-makers at all levels of the enterprise to harness information source and data processing capabilities requires a federated approach to creating new digital micro-solutions.

There has to be a technology substrate operating at the edge of the enterprise; a way to de-skill IT and bring information access to a broad audience of consumers across and beyond the enterprise, equipping them with the autonomy to harvest value from data. This is where intelligent digital documents enter the frame.

Documents have played a key role in businesses, and they will again

Documents have always performed a role in businesses to structure and communicate information. This is, in part, thanks to their autonomy of use. They act as a self-contained data transport, able to interact between different people, assets, and entities.

Think of an invoice and how it structures data into boxes that make it easier for recipients to interpret and carry data between organizations. Consider too, the role of larger documents, like manuals or product instructions, that curate content into chapters and sections to bring organization and structure to content in such as way that humans find it simpler to understand. Beyond this communications role, hard-copy documents have been a trusted answer to capturing data.

What’s more, documents are highly accessible. They de-skill composition and provide an excellent conduit for unstructured data. They bridge between organizations, forging a ‘soft link’ between siloed data processing systems.

What’s changed then, is not the usefulness of documents and their role, but the context and environment of use.

Intelligent digital documents, the digital document canvas

A digital document canvas is a new kind of digital construct designed for the modern age of digital business.

These autonomous files perform a similar role to traditional documents in the enterprise, bridging between systems and departments, empowering information workers to find answers to new questions, and equipping workers to communicate and share information in more engaging ways. Moreover, digital documents de-skill the task of working with data, so information access and data processing become federated to the edge of the enterprise, bringing autonomy to individuals and departments.

While the role of a digital document canvas is similar to its hard-copy analog predecessor, digital documents are smart. In addition to content, they carry with them design rules, and if/then logic. Unlike a traditional web page that relies almost wholly on its platform environment, digital documents are more autonomous and can be structured into sections. This enables them to work and function in a similar way to an autonomous paper document.

In a digital age, these smart digital documents must operate within a controlled ecosystem governed by IT professionals. This is where the symbiotic relationship begins between the digital data fabric and the digital document canvas.

In short, digital document canvases make the ideal consumption layer of a composable digital business. They forge a new kind of partnership between ‘the business and IT.’ In this new deal, IT architects govern the shape and form of the digital data fabrics that coexist on one or more digital cloud spaces. Residing on these digital data fabrics are the digital documents that equip information workers to do their jobs, unfettered by the need for coding and scripting skills to turn data into value.

Final thoughts

Composable digital businesses are adopting a new way of thinking. This is applied to people, systems, processes, and business architecture in similar ways, and forms a pervasive new culture that fosters new behaviors.

It’s difficult to envisage this new form of information management culture being successful and sustainable unless grassroots decision-makers across the organization are equipped with the accessible and easy-to-learn and use tools needed to lever advantage from data fabric investments.

Digital documents—framed, and somewhat constrained by IT professionals— offer the required modularity for composition and show themselves to be the obvious smart alternative to avoid a free-for-all of custom apps and dashboards developed by untrained citizen developers.

The last word goes to Gartner—“At successful organizations, the CIO will act as evangelist, engineer, and orchestrator, as he or she views change as a tool, provides guidance on modular designs that enable change, then helps to execute it.”

5 Reasons to invest in Digital Documents

May 18, 2022 | Application Platform, lo-no code software, Software Development, Uncategorized

invest in digital documentsThis document highlights five major reasons to invest in an enterprise platform like Encanvas that supports the lifecycle of digital documents.

Remastering the document for a digital age

Documents have always been useful to businesses. They are easy to create and use, perform countless roles—by making information easier to capture, process, distribute, share, and store—and, perhaps most importantly, they are a familiar concept that people understand.

Read our article on digital documents and innovation

Intelligent digital documents

The use of intelligent digital documents is on the rise, responding to the demands of digital business. This new digital file construct—that combines document data with design and logic rules whilst still remaining largely autonomous in its use—is breathing new life to the role of documents in businesses.

Digital documents are a form of what Gartner calls a composable application. (Interestingly, composable applications come #5 in Gartner’s top 2022 priorities.)

They are built from business-centric modular components and make it easier to use and reuse data and code, accelerating the time to market for new information solutions and releasing enterprise value.

According to the Gartner report “Adopt a Composable DXP Strategy to Future-Proof Your Tech Stack,” 60% of mainstream organizations will use the composable business model as a strategic objective by 2023.

While digital documents are considered to be essential in the democratization of IT, their autonomy of use is not without rules or governance. Indeed, IT teams have greater control and governance over digital documents than they enjoy with the self-authored apps of citizen developers. But, what this autonomous use does bring is an insane level of versatility in the range of information publishing, management, and processing use cases digital documents can deliver across your business.

Read about intelligent digital documents

Reasons to invest in digital documents

1. Drive business agility

Demands for agility come from the recognition that markets and business models are changing progressively faster. To see change as an opportunity, not a business threat requires an organization to see the need for agility as a constant. This agilization of the enterprise covers all areas including decision-making culture, supply chain, resourcing, people, and not least systems and processes.

The Nordics arm of Deloitte’s took the time in 2021 to conduct detailed research into the importance of business agility to leaders and found that 67 percent of respondents saw business agility as having a high priority across their organization.

Composable technology, like digital documents, cascades access to information—and information sharing and processing tooling—across the enterprise, allowing departments and individuals to craft better ways to analyze data and get things done without calling on IT every time a spreadsheet isn’t the answer.

According to the Gartner report “Adopt a Composable DXP Strategy to Future-Proof Your Tech Stack,” 60% of mainstream organizations will see the composable business model as a strategic objective by 2023.

2. Deliver innovations faster, at lower IT costs, while de-skilling access to information services

Tech talent is hard to find, and the competition is so fierce, leading to a 14% upshift in operating costs in some US states.  Meanwhile, in the UK, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)  report on the tech skills gap suggests that data analysis is the fastest growing skills cluster in tech and is set to expand by 33% in the next five years.

Applications developments are high-risk and costly. Everyone knows it. Still, the move to make tech solutions—such as mobile apps—an integral part of the customer value offered by digital businesses means every IT function today has a long tail of app dev demands.

Thankfully, digital documents aren’t quite the same as apps. They are more autonomous. They are truly codeless. And, they combine with cloud-native digital cloud spaces and digital data fabrics to allow IT, teams, to retain control over their tech stack, even while providing business stakeholders with the information solutions they need. That’s good news when there’s a global shortage of tech talent.

3. Maximize the value of data

Watch any video of Bezos talking about business, Amazon’s growth, or his own life lessons, and within seconds he will inevitably talk about customer-centricity and the value Amazon derives from data. Extracting value from data—not just gathering it—is critical to any digital business. And it’s in this second phase of ‘harvesting value from data’ that digital documents bring real value.

The challenge most companies face when it comes to data value is threefold:

  1. Executives don’t take data value (or quality) seriously enough as a contributor to business success, and often adopt slack KPI recording of performance in this capability.
  2. The data management and governance across an enterprise—compromised as it is so often by systems and departmental silos—is not ‘composable’ by the business decision-makers that need it.
  3. Executives and information workers lack the autonomy of action—or information management tooling—to maximize data value and use.

Digital documents allow executives and information workers to fully leverage the data at their disposal to answer new questions as they emerge. Additionally, digital documents can capture further enrichment data associated with a subject—by cross-fertilizing with third-party data or adding custom data fields—that brings more value to data.

4. Cascade digital innovations like AI and graph technology to the edge of the enterprise

Since the birth of enterprise computing, the focus on data processing and its use has seesawed between centralized and distributed systems.

This pendulum has been about leveling up cost, availability, and control over IT. That is to say, finding the ideal state between these three core considerations has never been easy.

The general shift over the past few years—thanks in part to cloud computing and big data—has been a move to large-scale centralized processing. But centralized economies and the assumed advantages in data and systems governance served up by cloud computing result in less autonomy and access for information workers to harness and adapt technology to serve business needs at the edge of the enterprise.

5. Rebalance the relationship between IT and THE BUSINESS

The overriding reason digital documents are facing a high pace of adoption within enterprise technical teams comes down to their ability to apply a new and practical balance between business demands and IT priorities.

Since the digital economy landed—and started to place unreasonable demands on IT teams whose resources were already overstretched by business continuity, compliance, and renewal challenges—there has been an unquenchable demand from front-line enterprise departments for more applications. This is hardly surprising; the consumerization of IT made it plain to many businesspeople that the quality of the software they were being served up and asked to live with was far behind the curve of what companies like Google and Facebook were serving up to consumers for free. Information workers of the 1990s were frazzled by having to work late nights with spreadsheets, while fully aware that their databases were perfectly capable of achieving more in less time, and with less hassle.

Digital documents offer digital workers empowerment; that much is reasonably obvious: They don’t have to go to the IT department door with a begging bowl for new applications to work with data. What is less obvious, is how game-changing digital documents are for IT teams. While digital documents are convenient and accessible to the mass of workers in a digital business, for IT professionals with skills, there are no limits to the possibilities to innovate, whilst throwing a veil of robust IT protocols across the enterprise to improve control, data security, applications governance, replication, and scaling safeguards, etc.

Above all, digital documents form a thoughtfully designed balance between the needs of the business, and the needs of IT; one that favors both parties.

Encanvas—A digital platform for digital documents

May 18, 2022 | Data Security, Software Development

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According to the Gartner report “Adopt a Composable DXP Strategy to Future-Proof Your Tech Stack,” 60% of mainstream organizations will use the composable business model as a strategic objective by 2023.

How modern composable technology is driving digital transformations

Your business model might benefit from artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), digital ledgers like Blockchain, data visualization, virtualization… even the MetaVerse. Meanwhile, our digital data fabric spans your enterprise to lever value from existing data and IT investments. Additionally, it offers an onramp for the competitive advantage the world of digital brings.

Encanvas is a leader in enterprise digital platforms for digital business documents

Businesses don’t want to produce ONE digital document. Once you’ve created your first digital document, you’ll soon discover many other publications and processes that benefit from the technology. To manage the lifecycle of designing, publishing, distributing, and analysing digital documents across your business, takes a highly sophisticated digital platform; one that’s easy to deploy, personalize, safe for data, and easy to govern, manage, and grow.

Our three-tier digital platform

Technology can be powerful, but it can also be complex to implement and adapt. But not Encanvas. Instead, our three-tier architecture brings digital coherency, data security, and painless operational governance to your enterprise.

#1 Digital Document Canvases

Quickly design and publish digital documents on Encanvas using our unique Canvas architecture. Canvases make data across and beyond your enterprise ‘composable.’ Likewise, a canvas can contain an unlimited number of sections. It brings together all the elements of digital documents—data, user interface (UX) design, if/then logic, presentation, and transition rules, design elements, governance (including management, distribution, ownership, archival rules, etc.)—in a simple intuitive format that’s easy to learn and use.

Composing new AI-powered digital documents creates smarter, more responsible, scalable AI. Therefore, this enables better learning algorithms, interpretable systems, and a shorter time to value promoting productivity and agility. Furthermore, canvases can be used as standalone documents or interpolated together to fulfil complex information processing functions across and beyond your business.

#2 Digital Data Fabric

Imagine an invisible digital umbrella spanning your enterprise, able to interact with all your people, systems, data, and processes. To sum up, that’s what our digital fabric is all about. It’s a private-cloud deployed data processing environment for digital documents. As digital business accelerates, and data becomes increasingly complex, digital documents—underpinned by a digital data fabric—support the need to design personalized information experiences at pace, deploy fast, and manage painlessly.

In its latest digital transformation trends report, Gartner argues that—‘data fabrics leverage existing skills and technologies from data hubs, data lakes and data warehouses while also introducing new approaches and tools for the future.’

Use our Digital Data Fabric to create as many digital documents as you need and change them as often as you like. Publish outward-facing digital customer materials and portal solutions, or internal information collaboration and data processing solutions.

Data fabric: reduces time for integration design by 30%, deployment by 30% and maintenance by 70%.

(Gartner)

Encanvas Digital Data Fabric takes care of the complex data integration, cybersecurity, management, governance, and processing tasks that are needed to install robust enterprise-grade IT solutions. Our digital data fabrics maximize data value by simplifying integration challenges and reinforcing Master Data Management (MDM) rules; reducing the replication of data assets, minimizing data complexity, and speeding up the time-to-market of new digital document applications.

#3 Digital Cloud Spaces

The safest way to control digital documents used in the enterprise is to manage published content in data safe containers, protected by rigorous information security policies. Digital Cloud Spaces are, in essence, private cloud containers offering unprecedented cybersecurity, governance, and scaling capabilities. Using Digital Cloud Spaces, Digital Data Fabrics can coexist on the same private cloud and are easily managed and replicated. Cloud clustering Underpinning Encanvas Digital Cloud Spaces is a series of proprietary industry-leading cloud clustering technology innovations.