A Data Cloud Plan is a consulting engagement designed to plan the future state architecture of a customer workload or application on Data Cloud Platform.
data life cycle
Ingestion
Storage
Processing and Analyze
Data Analytics Foundation Workshop as first step of engagement
In this engagement, we will work with you to discover, assess and architect a secure, scalable, performant and maintainable data and analytics platform. This data platform will enable a robust data environment to maximize data utilization enterprise wide. The engagement will include a variety of deep-dive working sessions and prototype development implementation focusing on the following areas:
People Readiness
Impact assessment and remediation strategies for Customer’s users examining daily activities, responsibilities and typical work streams for highly impacted users
Performance & Compliance Management
Monitoring, logging and alerting for resources and activities associated with data and analytics platform
Automated Resource Deployment
Repeatable, interactive cloud and data operations using Infrastructure as Code
Resources & Data Access
Organization, authentication and authorization for Google Cloud resources and data sets through Identity and Access Management
Data & Analytics Discovery
Discovery, assessment, gap analysis and design of existing data and analytics capabilities and applicable migration strategy to Google Cloud
Data & Analytics Platform Foundation
Assessment and design of the data and analytics platform across ingestion, storage, processing (streaming and batch), transformation and visualization requirements and considerations
Data & Analytics Security
Assessment and design of data security, data sharing and de-identification requirements
Data Analytics Foundation Workshop activities and deliverables
Activity
Deliverables
Technical analytics
workshop
Technical Analytics Kickoff (TAK) workshop
Whiteboarding sessions
N/A
(Serves as an input
to the Technical Design Document)
Documentation of data environment based on use case
Draft Technical Design Document
Documentation of Data Cloud architecture based on use case
Draft Technical Design Document
Further architectural and environment deep-dives
Draft Technical Design Document
Final presentation
and project
closeout
Final Technical Design Document
and final project
closeout
Forrester Research named Google Cloud a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Data Management For Analytics in Q1 2023 report
Google received the highest possible score in 11 different evaluation criteria including roadmap execution, performance, scalability, data security and visualization.