Peter, we need to access and integrate data more easily.

I liked this article on Fundamental Truths when it comes to innovators. I do think Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have figured out how to be crazy successful in business. I do wish they were more philanthropic with the monies they have accumulated from their success. I digress...

I like the idea of a fundamental truth as a foundation for your business that doesn't change through time. And when I think about my commitment to build an ocean data services business, I have now started to think about what would be the fundamental truths? I believe everyone working with ocean data have these three fundamental truths that will not change, now or in the future.

1. We need to access and integrate data more easily.
2. We need better ways to visualize, communicate, and understand the data.
3. We would like to reduce the compute and storage costs of data.

These are what I came up with through my review of my initial thinking of fundamental truths. I know there will be a few more and these three will be edited as my idea grows and gets greater footing.

The Data Readiness Assessment

One of the core technologies provided by Oceans Set is the Data Readiness Assessment. The purpose of this assessment tool is threefold;

• First, it is an end-to-end deep dive into your organizations data; where it is coming from, how its stored, how integrated its design, how good is it's quality, how well it is managed, how easily it can be accesses, and it's overall integrity and security. Essentially, we answer the question, "Do you have good data health?"
• Second, what is your data's readiness to bring additional intelligence to your organization. Are you getting the insights you can from your data? Is the data easily accessible, and by the correct people? How well does your data align with external data sources? Is your organization able to learn from its historical and day-to-day data sets?
• Third, are you missing out on revenue opportunities that are baked into your data sets. Do you have data that may have greater value to someone else without giving away your competitive advantage? Have you assessed your data for value beyond your own organization?

How do we execute your data readiness assessment? It's mostly a consulting engagement, where we have highly skilled staff who work closely with your business, your subject matter experts, and your information technology team. The details of the assessment are your organizations competitive advantage. 

Welcome to The Ocean Set CTO Blog

This blog is dedicated to describing all things technical as they relate to the Ocean Set startup. The blog is authored by the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Ocean Set and the topics will vary from the deeply technical to the softer musings of how to best run a technical team. Through time the blog will describe our ocean data value product (from both a user and technical perspective) and the best practices our startup uses to provide services to better manage and exploit all your real-time, recent, and archived data.

Our ocean data products can assist your organization to; 

• Subscribe to data set provider notifications.
• Gain insight into the quality of your data sets.
• Source data sets to improve your business intelligence and AI initiatives.
• Monitor changes in the data sets and specialized algorithms of interest.
• Leverage brokerage services to add revenue from your existing data.
• Add internal and external value to your existing and real-time data.
• Have smart contracts to act upon partner and customer events.
• Improve your research effectiveness.
• Utilize algorithms and compute-to-data to reduce overhead and storage costs.
• Obtain summaries of how your customers access your data.
• Enforce data exchange contracts across jurisdictions.

The services side of the startup can assist you with the following;

• Solution Architecture - implementing the best software solution for your specific ocean business needs.
• Reference Architecture - support your business vision and technology roadmap with a directory of solutions for emerging opportunities.
• Data Discovery - Deep dive into the technologies and the storage of your data and find value you didn't know you had.
• Data Engineering - With the help of analysts, data scientists, and partners we can create insight about your organization and what the future could hold.
• Data Brokerage - The data your organization collects can have value to others. We are building a data brokerage to curate and exchange these data sets of value.
• Data Governance - We help with the Data Governance directives that manage the policies, principles and qualities to promote the access to your accurate and trustworthy data.

Feel free to follow along... and don't hesitate to reach out and discuss any aspects of our products or services.

Note: consider the features listed above as part of our product roadmap. Reach out to us an let us know what is important. We know there is a high need for an ocean data exchange, help us build the priority features.