"Data is the new oil" according to several sources online (see link below). But what does that mean, and what does one need to do to be able to extract value from data?
An important prerequisite for being able to extract value is that you can define what data you have, how it is structured, what it means and in which systems it exists.
Existing IT systems that support the business and automate processes are an important source in that they process information realized in the form of various data structures (usually relational databases, but other forms of data storage also exist).
One way to quickly and efficiently get a handle on data and data structures is to "scrape" existing IT systems (in Prime Arch these are called "applications").
We deal with the subject in a series of articles and the first is about "data scraping".
Have a nice reading!