Introduction

If you are a business analyst working with STEP, C4b makes your work easier.

What is Companion for Business

The C4b is an accelerator tool built on the Companion for Delivery stack and designed for business analyst to facilitate your data model governance in STEP.

It includes a dedicated frontend for business teams:

C4b provides also:

• Advanced features for business
  • simplified data model management with Excel
  • easy and quick deployment on your different STEP environments
  • single-click online documentation generation (STEPdoc)
• Pre-built Excel files for operational usages
  • Hierarchies and nomenclature management
  • LOV and attributes management
  • ...
• Possibility to separate perimeters for central Data governance & local data governance
• Tool to quickly Highlight differences in data model between two STEP environments

C4b includes free access to the easy navigation, filterable and searchable online STEP data model documentation (STEPdoc):

Benefits

• Optimize your organization : use the power of Excel for data modeling to eliminate unnecessary steps and information redundancy with IT.

  • The C4b allows you to do with Excel what you do in the workbench with eliminating cumbersome data entry. Do it once for all environments!

  • The C4b gives you the ability to organize your information as needed with structuring files and folders reflecting your organization (folder naming / file naming / mulitple sheets creation in a single Excel files / creation of commented rows and colums / hyperlink management / calculated columns).

  • With STEPdoc, share your data dictionary in a single click : maintaining the corporate data dictionary is always a difficult task.

    • With C4b, your online data model documentation is generated in a secure cloud accessible from anywhere with credentials.
    • You can have as many documentations as you wish (for instance as many as there are available STEP environments) which is useful during integation phase for third-party actors (middleware / BI).

Business and IT cooperation

C4d and C4b helps for cooperation!

• between different business teams, business analysts
• between business & IT teams

Possible scenario 1

• Business team may test data model on STEP sandbox
• Business team transfers Companion files to IT team, which is responsible for deployment.

Possible scenario 2

• Business team is fully autonomous for its part of data model, from Companion files to deployment to STEP PROD environment.

Your scenario?

your scenario will be discussed and challenged during the set-up phase, then implemented.