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-Data management is an IT practice encompassing an organization's practices across the data life cycle

-Data governance is a business practice that defines how data is processed across the organization to ensure that data is FAIR (compliant, private etc)

-Data modeling is a process of creating conceptual, logical, or physical data models for one’s data

Life Sciences companies accumulate data with ever-increasing pace, and data that they use to create new treatments or new diagnostics is more diverse and complex than in arguably any other domains. With multiple data sources, data elements, stakeholders, and data consumers it gets progressively harder and harder to scale and to maintain control over data life cycle. There is a strong awareness in the scientific community that more data must produce more insight and knowledge, but this goal has been difficult to attain. Life Sciences businesses are now relying on the practice of data management and data governance as best business practice to wrangle data assets and realize value from data.

There are many resources that deliver data management and data governance solutions.There are frameworks, platforms, and solutions; there are tools that one can use and knowledge bases to consult with. We are different. We provide people – scientists with subject matter expertise trained in data modeling – who can help. Our people have dozens of years of experience in their respective field of study and participated in multiple projects where they did data modeling or provided data governance support. We have real-life experience, and we can support your projects with minimal ramp-up time leveraging data models we have already built and know how.

What can be delivered?
-Data Models: delivered as ERDs, in many cases with data dictionaries. We use a variety of tools to deliver data models, LucidCharts and ER studio by IDERA being most common

-Data governance as a process: we provide scientists trained in data modeling and experienced with data governance projects to support your team operationally. We bridge scientists and IT departments and provide oversight on the data governance process at your organization. We develop community outreach to educate your team on best practices. We write SOPs, post them, and check that people adhere to the recommendations

Documentation, strategy documents, investigation of third-party tools: we help clients develop short and long data strategy. Often, young companies focus on research and work hard to develop a new drug or a diagnostic – and find themselves in need to quickly become ready for a regulatory finding, but they lack skillset in-house to approach this stage of growth. Rancho team can evaluate current state and find solutions for future data state 0- tailored to specific needs of the client. We do not own software or platforms and will provide our opinions based on our experience and expertise to help clients select the best solution for their situation.