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Data Services Blueprint

In this section of the Playbook you can learn about the capabilities of the FAS Cloud Service (FCS).

Data Services Blueprint

Data Services provide products that enable business domains and programs to consume and share data across the enterprise and manipulate data in a variety of ways to unlock its value. Products in the FCS data porfolio are conceived around a set of data capabilities that enable the full lifecycle of data operations, and supported by other foundational FCS platform services. Those capabilities are grouped into three main areas of focus that each of the products aligns to: Data Governance, Big Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence.

Data Governance – Data Governance procedures, activities, and tools aim to garner trust and utility in enterprise data. Both consumers and stewards of data need standard procedures and automation tools to make sense of vast stores of organizational data, to unlock data silos, to take stock of what's there, and to ensure secure and proper handling and access of that data.

Click through the layers below to view different layers of complexity surrounding our services ranging from high level to a sample. You can mouse over or click areas in the diagram for additional details on what is happening in each area and the technologies involved in each.

Data Governance

Data Governance Components

Data Governance Functions

Data Governance Platform Services

Enterprise Data

Static Application with Search Architecture chart

Tenant Responsibility - The blue area highlights the code and configuration areas that a tenant is responsible for. The surrounding infrastructure and services will be managed, configured, hardened, and patched by FCS

Big Data Analytics - When very large datasets need to be run through model-training, summarized to aggregate values, or processed across their entire corpus, simple single-process programs and shared databases quickly become overwhelmed. The scalability and parallel processing of data processing clusters enable this type of efficient and high-performance big data analytics. 

Click through the layers below to view different layers of complexity surrounding our services ranging from high level to a sample. You can mouse over or click areas in the diagram for additional details on what is happening in each area and the technologies involved in each.

User and Application Workloads

Authorized FCS Users

Data Processing Cluster

v2 EMR Serverless

Enterprise Analytical Data Stores

Content Management with Search Application Architecture chart

Tenant Responsibility - The blue area highlights the code and configuration areas that a tenant is responsible for. The surrounding infrastructure and services will be managed, configured, hardened, and patched by FCS

Business Intelligence – The Business Intelligence products include all facets of standard reporting, dashboarding, and data visualization capabilities including authoring, publication, life-cycle management, and access to reporting and visualization artifacts. 

Click through the layers below to view different layers of complexity surrounding our services ranging from high level to a sample application. You can mouse over or click areas in the diagram for additional details on what is happening in each area and the technologies involved in each.

Tenant VPC(MCaaS, VPCaaS, EBTA)

FCS Users

FCS Data VPC

Enterprise Analytical Data Stores

Business Intelligence architecture chart

Tenant Responsibility - The blue area highlights the code and configuration areas that a tenant is responsible for. The surrounding infrastructure and services will be managed, configured, hardened, and patched by FCS

Data Capabilities

Check out the Cloud Offering section for an overview of the various technologies that are available in the Data Services and what they can offer to FCS customers.

Data Capabilities

Cloud Lounge

Visit the Cloud Lounge on the FAS-IT Playbook for news and announcements about MCaaS and the entire FCS Cloud Ecosystem.

Cloud Lounge

FAS Enterprise Data Architecture

Visit this overview of how FAS manages data and plans to improve and modernize services and offerings.

Data Architecture

Quick Links

A shortcut for FCS tenants!

Get Cloud Services

Learn how you can get onboard to FCS with a detailed user journey.

Data Capabilities

GSA offers a portfolio of data capabilities to support the products and services. Like cloud plays, they are a source of guidance providing a path for implementing a specific solution.

Cloud Economics

Get a sense of the costs models you’ll encounter and value when moving to the cloud.

Cloud Plays

Cloud Plays are endorsed, referenceable, and consumable sources of guidance providing a path for implementing a specific solution.