The frenzied pace of technology growth has created a tremendous surge in the amount of data retained within organizations. Proliferation of systems that automate key operations only increases the data exponentially. Used effectively, this becomes one of the strategic assets of an organization that can help gain competitive advantage. This also builds the ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs by finding effective ways to use this data collected into useful information.

Assyst's Data Architecture Consulting group helps organizations define their current and future needs for storage, accumulation, retention, archival, maintenance, and transfer of data between various systems within or outside the organization. This requires ensuring that data elements, reflecting the enterprises' functional and technical vocabulary, are organized into a standardized data dictionary that accommodates the breadth of business activities performed. The team evaluates the type of data stored to determine commonality, uniqueness, redundancy and efficiency and provides an assessment that lays the foundation for an enterprise data architecture, which supports the application development efforts and streamlines the design process.