Forgetting about governance

Governance is important in all architecture domains, but perhaps a few domains can go wrong where governance is missing as the data domain. In the following sections, we will explore two examples of this phenomenon, starting with what happens when you fail to coordinate data models on a common platform.

Disconnected Entities

Disconnected Entities is an anti-pattern characterized by unconnected data entities proliferating in a common database, often with multiple database representations of the same business level entity.

Example

SmileCo is a major provider of dental supplies operating in several global cities. They have been using Salesforce for several years, using a departmental strategy, where each department has run independently on Salesforce without central oversight.

There are three departments that use Salesforce in a serious way and they are as follows:

• Finance, which uses it for debt collection using a home-grown application...