Use cases

The business use cases that could be realized using a Data Fabric solution are numerous. They include Customer 360, migration to the cloud, regulatory compliance, data democratization, and more. The theme throughout this book has been the criticality and emphasis on mature Data Governance, where active metadata is the glue that binds distributed data during its life cycle. Data Fabric is a technical approach that is positioned to address a diverse set of use cases.

At the time of writing this book, there has been a big shift toward distributed data management and achieving this via a Data Mesh, an organizational approach with specific data management principles. The accountability and responsibility of data management are moved to each business domain as opposed to a central IT organization leveraged across business domains. It has a federated Data Governance model that is accountable for global data policies and decision-making in order to adhere to government regulations...