Cerner needs to know what assets it owns, where they are located, and the status of those assets. A configuration management system is an inventory of IT assets and IT things like servers, network devices, storage arrays, and software licenses.

2. Building Data Quality Audit
Framework using Delta at Cerner
Madhav Agni
www.linkedin.com/in/madhav-agni
Manager | Lead Software Engineer

3. Agenda
Intro for Beacon
Beacon Architecture
Need for Data Quality Audit
Delta Lake
Demo

5. What is Beacon?
▪ Inventory of configuration items (IT "thing“) and assets
▪ Relationships and attributes
▪ Data and the tools used to collect the data
▪ Cerner’s Configuration Management System is called Beacon

6. Why do we need Beacon?
▪ Multiple tools with asset and config information
▪ One single accountable team
▪ Cerner has over 1 billion dollars in assets / CIs
▪ Manage security risks
▪ Service costing and licensing
▪ Capacity management
▪ Service Operations
▪ One solution to rule them all

7. Beacon Technical Architecture

8. What is Data Quality

9. Why Data Quality is Important?
▪ No trust in Data
▪ False facts
▪ Different view on Data
▪ Flexibility
▪ Optimize business process
▪ Stricter compliance

12. Delta Lake Features
▪ ACID Transactions
▪ Time Travel (data versioning)
▪ Schema Enforcement
▪ Schema Evolution
▪ Audit History
▪ Updates and Deletes

13. Audit Framework Flow
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14. Impact of the framework
▪ Increase in pre-prod defects
▪ 20% decrease in SIE test execution
▪ Reduction in CRQs
▪ 25% decrease in Prod defects
▪ Ability to perform data rollbacks

15. Demo

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