How to Begin With DAS

Create a business case for deploying a DAS framework for your organization

• Assess the value of adopting a DAS approach
  • Identify your current organizational challenges with IT 
  • Determine how DAS will address these challenges 
• Show how a DAS framework will:
  • Make your IT more sustainable 
  • Enable citizen developers/domain experts to contribute to digital transformation 
  • Streamline current operations to eliminate problems and bottlenecks 
  • Identify opportunities to develop new products and grow market share 

Define an Enterprise Architectural Framework for DAS

• Build on the content from this website to define:
  • Principles 
  • Standards and Processes 
  • Service Areas and separation of concerns 
  • Security Model and Privacy considerations 
  • Scalability, High Availability, Disaster Recovery 
• Determine how you will implement and deploy your services
  • Platform: Network, Servers, Cloud Services, etc. 
  • DevOps Technology and IDEs 
  • Languages and Libraries 

Build or Buy Core Components

• Data at Rest
  • Record Storage 
  • File Storage 
• Data Presentation
  • Dynamic Page Builders
    • Web, Mobile, Desktop 
• Data in Motion
  • Common data migration 
  • Common data connectors
    • Email, Message Queues, Hubs, other connectors 
• Data in Action
  • Custom workflow
    • REST APIs, OS Services, Stored Procedures, other components