Experian is excited to announce major updates to Aperture Data Studio, a groundbreaking solution aimed at transforming the way organisations manage their data. Our vision is to create a unified solution that allows clients to do more with their data by empowering each part of their organisation to take care of it, amplifying its value and standing out in the market. This new version of Aperture Data Studio is a unified data intelligence solution with robust data quality and governance capabilities.
Organisations need trusted data to better manage risk, increase operational efficiency, including but not limited to implementing AI to grow their business, however most organisations still don’t trust their data.
Advancing Experian’s mission to instil trust in data
Organisations need robust data quality and governance capabilities to create trust in data. Aperture Data Studio now has integrated data catalogue and governance capabilities that will help organisations to remove silos and empower each part of an organisation to take care of their data and make decisions with relevant business context.
Some key capabilities we’re excited about:
Business Process Impact: A unique capability expediting Return on Investment (ROI), businesses can quantify the impact of data management issues in financial terms, deliver ROI metrics for data initiatives, and map data to internal processes to assess if it is fit-for-purpose.
Flexible Data Catalogue: a new fully flexible data catalogue enables greater control, oversight and management of an organisation’s data estate. Businesses can easily define data assets, capture and contextualise critical data, assign ownership and map relationships, enforce policies, and leverage collaboration features to encourage innovation. With a fully adaptable data model and a flexible data catalogue, Aperture Data Studio can cater to an organisation’s unique needs, supporting both simple and complex governance requirements.
Conformance Monitoring: Interactive dashboards for conformance monitoring, ensuring data governance standards set by the organisation are met.
Key features of Aperture Data Studio
- GenAI capabilities: The ability to create data quality rules from natural language. Rules created are transparent, the written code can be seen, tested and modified before applying.
- Profiling and Exploring Data: Aperture Data Studio offers powerful profiling and exploration tools that help clients understand their data better, reducing assumptions and mitigating risks in data projects.
- Data Cleansing and Transformation: The workflow engine allows for extensive data cleansing and transformation, making data fit for purpose across various domains, from finance to asset management.
- Validation and Monitoring: With a robust library of validation rules, Aperture Data Studio ensures data quality by monitoring and detecting failures, whether they are technical or business-related. New AI-driven rule definitions enhance this capability further.
- Issue Tracking and Automation: Aperture Data Studio supports issue tracking and resolution, automating tasks and ensuring data quality issues are addressed promptly. Automation and scheduling capabilities enable seamless data processing.
- Connectivity and Integration: The platform boasts a wide range of connectors, supporting data from various sources like spreadsheets, databases, and APIs. Push-down processing and real-time workflows enhance data handling efficiency.
- Match and Merge: Aperture Data Studio offers robust matching capabilities designed to help clients confidently match duplicated records with explainable matching logic.
- Contact Data Validation and Enrichment Capabilities: Aperture Data Studio integrates with Experian’s data validation products, offering address, phone and email validation, as well as enrichment data sets.
- User Defined APIs: Translate business rules to real time workflows in the highly intuitive UI, then call them as APIs to validate all types of data consistently, across multiple touch points, in line with unique business requirements.
The new version of Aperture Data Studio represents a significant leap forward in data management, offering a unified data intelligence solution that enhances data quality and governance. With its new Catalogue and Governance solution, flexible data model and advanced features like GenAI capabilities and user-defined APIs, organisations can now manage their data more effectively and efficiently. This comprehensive platform not only addresses the critical need for trusted data but also empowers businesses to leverage their data for improved risk management, operational efficiency and innovation.