The Power of Choice: Future-Proofing Your Technology Strategy | DAPS 2025

Join Don Murray, CEO and Co-Founder of Safe Software, and Lena Gomes, Manager of GIS Solutions at Planview Utility Services Ltd, as they discuss the critical interplay between technology choices, data governance, and the future-proofing of organizational data strategies.

This session, titled "The Power of Choice: Future-Proofing Your Technology Strategy," explores the concept of interoperability and how open, flexible data movement is the key to minimizing vendor lock-in and maximizing the long-term value of digital investments.

Key Discussion Points Include:

✅ The Interoperability Imperative: The necessity of ensuring that data can flow freely and accurately between disparate systems, legacy applications, and new cloud platforms to support continuous innovation [01:40].

✅ The Problem of Vendor Lock-In: Analyzing the common pitfalls where organizations become trapped by proprietary data formats and limited toolsets, hindering digital transformation [04:25].

✅ Decoupling Data from Applications: The strategy of separating data management and transformation from the application layer to maintain control and agility, regardless of shifts in technology or vendor services [08:31].

✅ Governing Data for the Future: How robust Data Governance practices must evolve to support an environment where data is constantly in motion and being integrated across organizational and sectoral boundaries [13:50].

✅ Real-World Utility Case Study: Insights from Planview Utility Services on how leveraging interoperability and flexible data solutions allows them to manage complex GIS and utility network data efficiently and adapt to changing regulatory demands [18:20].

✅ The Power of Choice: Embracing a technology ecosystem that allows organizations to select the best-of-breed tools for every function without compromising data integrity or future migration options [24:15].

Learn how prioritizing open data exchange and strategic data governance provides the "power of choice," creating a resilient, adaptable, and future-proof technology foundation.