Technology Updates
Our data strategy in Techsense
The Techsense interview covers the development of our services, from systems integration to data governance and preparation for analytics and AI.
In an interview with Kanaal Z, our CEO set out where we sit in the market and what makes us a partner large companies come back to on data integration, data transformation and securing information flows.
We joined the Alan Allman Associates ecosystem in 2015. Since then we have supported large organisations through digital transformation programmes by keeping data coherent and secure as it crosses their systems, which is usually the part nobody costed.
Integrating heterogeneous systems
What we bring is an understanding of several heterogeneous systems at the same time, which is the normal condition inside a large organisation. Financial data, business data, structural data, protocol data: the technologies we work on handle a wide range of formats and transformation standards, and we have used them on all of these.
What makes us different is the ability to synchronise very different systems while keeping them reliable and fast.
Alain Kunnen
That addresses the problem most organisations actually have, which is not integration in the abstract but interoperability and flow continuity in an ecosystem that keeps getting more complicated.
Access to sensitive data
As security and regulatory compliance became strategic rather than technical questions, we started deploying data virtualisation to define and enforce access rules rather than trusting each application to behave.
It is no longer only about protecting data. It is about making sure the right people reach the right information at the right moment.
Alain Kunnen
That is governance rather than security in the narrow sense: traceability, transparency and access control, so that trust in the system is something you can demonstrate rather than assert.
Who we work with
Mainly banking, insurance and industry, where data quality and system reliability are not preferences. Interoperability, security and governance are what let a large organisation get value out of its own data instead of spending the budget reconciling it.