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BT Digital calls in the Council to speed up cloudification

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Council consulted 50 staff from across the unit to eradicate duplicate data classifications and other pests

BTโ€™s Digital has completed an EDM Council cloud assessment to provide a โ€œrobust framework for moving forward at pace with its cloud and data ambitionโ€. Further, it allegedly reduces duplication of effort in setting up data classification and management structures by over 70%, apparently.

The EDM Council is a trade association whose Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework is a tool to assess organisationsโ€™ cloud readiness. The Council describes it as a โ€œcomprehensive set of industry standard guidelines, standards and best practices for organisations to move their data into cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud ecosystemsโ€.

Telecom first

The assessment was conducted by a firm called ProjectiveGroup, which is better known for supporting transformation in the financial services sector.

This is EDM Councilโ€™s first assessment in the telecoms sector. It involved 50 BT staff from 11 disciplines including data management, architecture, engineering, legal, privacy, security, compliance and networks.

The framework also provides โ€œclear routesโ€ to the deployment of strategic applications and data services, and informs the pace with which analytics and AI can be deployed โ€œresponsibly,โ€ according to the press statement.

Ben Clinch, Head of Information Architecture at BT Group, said, โ€œThe CDMC framework underpins our data ambition, providing us with a robust, safe and ethical grounding from which to drive value and build trust, for the Group and for customers.

โ€œIt also gives us a yardstick from which to build and measure improvements to ensure we can continue to lead the field. We have been a strong supporter and participant in the development of the CDMC framework since its earliest days.โ€

Controlled and protected

For his part, John Bottega, President of EDM Council, added, โ€œHaving its cloud platform independently assessed will give the Groupโ€™s partners even greater confidence in accelerating their own adoption of cloud and hybrid-cloud strategies with the assurance that their data is controlled and protected.โ€

We shall see.