Council Post: How Data Operationalization Can Create 'Digital Twins' For Data

Council Post: How Data Operationalization Can Create 'Digital Twins' For Data highlights how operationalizing enterprise data could enable “digital twins” across complex organizations such as airlines. The discussion, by Ram Chakravarti, Chief Technology Officer for BMC, describes data generated by flight operations, crew scheduling, airport systems and weather, alongside customer systems including ticketing, credit card processing and loyalty programs. Because these datasets sit on fragmented infrastructures spanning mainframes, hybrid clouds and SaaS, a failure in one system—such as crew scheduling—can cascade into aircraft assignment and gate availability and even customer rebooking. The post argues this kind of interdependency exists beyond airlines, affecting industries from healthcare to financial services. It also notes that the way companies use data is shifting toward real-time, operational decision-making, which increases the risk surface of the overall data network.