Summary

A Data Fabric design represents a data architecture that is part of enterprise architecture. It’s critical for a data architecture to align and support the business capabilities designed as part of the business architecture for an organization. To design Data Fabric, it must follow nine recognized industry principles, which are data are assets that can evolve into data products, data is shared, data is accessible, data product ownership, common vocabulary and data definitions, data security, interoperability, always be architecting, and design for automation. These principles provide the necessary guardrails in its design to ensure it provides business value while following successful practices.

In this chapter, we provided an introduction to a logical Data Fabric architecture consisting of three layers: Data Integration focused on inbound and outbound data management; Data Governance, ensuring the right level of data integrity, security, and trust are in place with...