Maisons du Monde

Maisons du Monde got off to a pretty fast start on data with a new technical team and a Data Lake in 2018. They very quickly had a large volume of data around products, customer behavior and the supply chain. With such a large volume of data and indicators, they knew they needed a data governance strategy.

They developed a strategy with several objectives:

• to speak a common language
• make data available to business teams to facilitate decision-making
• acculturate the whole company to the importance of data.

Maisons du Monde chose the DataGalaxy solution for four main reasons:

• Accessibility of the DataGalaxy tool to business teams
• The availability of a data glossary to achieve the common language objective
• The ability to implement data lineage
• Competitive pricing of the solution in a period of cost optimization

None of Maisons du Monde’s employees had any experience of implementing a tool like DataGalaxy. They therefore called on an integrator, Layer Data, who had already mastered the tool and all aspects of data governance, to help them with the technical aspects and documentation.

Having set up their data catalog on DataGalaxy, it was time to bring business users on board. The data team began by taking their needs into account. The main problem for business users was that they were often looking for a specific KPI, but didn’t know where to find it.

By taking into account the KPIs that the business teams needed to find, the Maisons du Monde data team was quickly able to solve this problem. Now, the business teams know which dashboard the KPIs are in, as well as the formula used, the definitions and the entire KPI data path. Thanks to this ease of use, business teams were quickly on board and understood how the tool worked.

They were also able to help their DPO with the RGPD aspect, with everything to do with register processing. They worked closely with her on this aspect, and proved to her that DataGalaxy could meet this need.