01 — Design

Data Strategy & Platform Architecture Consulting

Design secure, scalable data foundations that bring organisational information together and support reliable analytics, reporting, and future growth.

Most organisations build their systems one need at a time: a core banking or ERP platform, a CRM, payment and mobile-money channels, survey tools and spreadsheets. Fafanua assesses that landscape, designs a target data platform that fits your scale, skills and budget, and sets out a practical roadmap to a trusted data foundation, so that investment in engineering, warehousing and analytics builds on a clear design rather than one-off fixes.

Problems this service solves

  • Data sits in separate systems, spreadsheets and exports, with no agreed place where it comes together.
  • Platform and tool choices are made project by project, and the estate grows harder and costlier to run.
  • Reporting depends on a few people and manual workarounds that do not scale.
  • Security, access and data-protection requirements are handled differently in every system.
  • There is no shared roadmap linking data investment to business priorities.

What Fafanua delivers

  • Current-state and data maturity assessment

    A clear picture of your systems, data flows, reporting dependencies and skills, with the risks and gaps that matter most.

  • Target data architecture

    A platform design, whether a cloud data warehouse, a lakehouse or a simpler starting point, covering ingestion, storage, modelling, security and access.

  • Technology selection

    Recommendations for cloud and on-premise components, weighed against cost, skills, connectivity and where your data must be held.

  • Implementation roadmap

    A phased plan that delivers early reporting value while building towards the full foundation, with cost and performance planned in.

Typical engagements

  • Current-state data-platform assessment
  • Target architecture and implementation roadmap
  • Cloud warehouse and lakehouse design
  • Technology selection
  • Security and access architecture
  • Cost and performance planning
  • Platform modernisation strategy
  • Data architecture advisory

Business outcomes

  • A shared view of where data lives, how it moves and who depends on it.
  • A platform design the organisation can grow into, rather than replace.
  • Data investment prioritised against business decisions, not tools.
  • Security and access designed in from the start.

Where it fits in the Fafanua lifecycle

Design is the first stage of the Fafanua lifecycle. The architecture and roadmap set the direction for the engineering, modelling, quality, governance and analytics work that follows, and for how the platform is operated over time.

  1. DesignData Strategy & Platform Architecture
  2. ConnectData Engineering & Integration
  3. ModelData Warehousing & Analytics Modelling
  4. TrustData Quality & Reliability
  5. GovernData Governance & Metadata
  6. DecideBusiness Intelligence & Analytics
  7. OperateManaged Data & Analytics Services

Relevant sectors

Let’s build a data foundation your organisation can trust.

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