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Data & DMI

Understand Critical Data in 3 Minutes

Domain: Data & DMI

Scenario: a customer makes a digital payment and receives a transaction notification.

Explore full DMI journeyGuided demonstration · About 3 minutes at 1× · Your pace
Educational simulation using a fictional, generic scenario. Organisations use their own approved data management frameworks.
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Data Usage

Data becomes important because of how the business uses it. Trace from the process to the outcome to the data it requires.

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Business usage drives importance

ProcessPayment completed
OutcomeCustomer notification required
Data requiredCustomer Email + Payment Status + Transaction Amount

Don't start with technical metadata. Start with what the business needs the data to do.

Map business usage first: process → outcome → data required. Usage tells you why data matters long before technical metadata does.

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