Advancing open, interoperable, and community-driven data ecosystems.

Mission Statement

The Open Data Platform Group brings together practitioners, architects, and innovators to define open standards, share best practices, and build a sustainable foundation for interoperable data platforms.

A Data Platform is not a simply a piece of software that can easily be identified.

A Data Platform is a combination of software, patterns, principles and operating models. It facilitates the paradigm where storage and compute are separated. It consolidates the enterprise data realm bringing cohesion to disjointed data. It blurs the lines between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses.

A Data Platform is not the same across different enterprises. Unlike software which has a defined task (eg EDM), a Data Platform will vary from organisationto organisation. But to be a called a Data Platform it must enable all data within an organisation to be accessible by all.

At its core, the Data Platform removes the need to copy data. There is no “Golden Source” – there is just a single store of data within the Data Platform.