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assets successfully cataloged with end-to-end lineage across all faculties.

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Centralized Business Glossary established for employees.

THE COMPLEXITY & FRICTION

 
 

A leading university with 45,000 employees struggled with manual data wrangling and slow discovery processes during its move to a modern cloud architecture. Lacking a centralized business glossary, departmental silos were deep and data literacy was inconsistent, making it difficult for the institution to leverage the full potential of their new cloud data stack or find the resources needed to drive research and operational excellence.

 
 

THE STRATEGIC PARADIGM

 

The University integrated Alex Solutions as its primary platform for metadata management and governance to bridge the gap between legacy siloes and the cloud. By automating the harvesting of assets, the institution built a searchable Business Glossary and a customized ontology designed to track usage, quality, and security. Alex Solutions acted as the foundational enterprise data operations layer, ensuring that assets were rationalized and understood before migration. This strategy turned the migration into a ‘literacy event,’ increasing the organization’s ability to find, use, and trust its information assets.

 
 

TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE & INTEGRATION

 

Cloud Platform AWS (S3, Redshift)
Legacy Systems Oracle, localized databases, flat files
Governance Hub Alex Business Glossary & Automated Metadata Harvesting

 
 

QUANTIFIABLE OPERATIONAL IMPACT

 

  • 4,000+ assets successfully cataloged with end-to-end lineage across all faculties.
  • Centralized Business Glossary established for 45,000 employees.
  • De-risked the cloud migration through strategic asset rationalization.
  • Improved cross-departmental data literacy and collaborative governance.

Customer Overview

Region:

APAC

A top-tier research university coordinating legacy shifts for a network of 45,000 employees.

Challenge Solved

  • Cloud Migration Risk
  • Centralized Glossary Deficit
  • Manual Data Wrangling
  • Academic Data Silos

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