Example ALFA Models

Introduction

Once you have some backgound about Schemarise and ALFA, you may be curious about how your data models may appear in ALFA.

The next best thing to looking at your own models in ALFA, is looking at models you might be familar with.

ALFA supports importing schemas from a variety of existing formats. Support to enable ALFA to import an existing format can be completed in a matter of weeks.

This site contains examples of external models which are available freely, imported into ALFA.

Unlike other Data Modelling, Governance, Onotology, or Lineage capture products, ALFA goes further to enable an end-to-end Data Architecture solution.

Capabilities at-a-glance

• Platform and language agnostic models, DQ rules, tests, metadata, APIs and business rules - Drive consistent data standards across the organization.
• Generated into multiple languages for use as libraries by application developers - enabling Model-Driven-Development.
• Run DQ rules directly on multiple data formats - JSON, CSV, XML, Database, Python Pandas, Apache Spark.
• Data models packaged as Data Products by data domain owners, versioned and released, driving higher quality governance and data.
• Intuitive, fully-navigable documentation generated from the data model allowing stakeholders to understand data and share knowledge.
• Extended with additional attributes, define Data Quality rules conforming to EDM Council Data Quality standards.
• Interoperable, versioned JSON data interchange format. Binary formats also supported for subset of target programming languages.

Fully Imported Model Examples

You may never have heard of these formats and models, or you might be an industry leading expert on them!

Either way, consider the tremendous benefit of having your organisational models in a similar layout, and reusing other industry models, visible to all stakeholders, and help deliver business applications.

• XML Schemas

  Multiple examples imported from ISO 20022, EMIR, LEI, FpML.

• JSON Schemas

  Example containing imported FIRE data model.

• FINOS Models

  • CDM (Common Domain Model) - Financial Products and LifeCycle
  • ISDA DRR (Digital Regulatory Reporting)

_{Some CDM to ALFA converted functions have been marked '???' to indicate they have failed ALFA's strict compilation following automated conversion, therefore commented out. This occurrs due to logic in CDM permitting unrelated type cardinality (e.g. [0..1], [1..1], [*..*]) values being considered equivalent in comparison and assignment logic. These can be manually fixed in ALFA after the automatic import, or better yet, corrected in FINOS CDM.}

• Open Risk Engine - Platform for Risk Analytics and XVA

  Open Risk Engine models imported into ALFA.

• OpenGamma Strata - Analytics and Market Risk Models

  OpenGamma models imported into ALFA.

_{The imported models are shown for demostration purposes only. Their use as examples should not be considered an endorsement or recommendation.}

Showcase Data Models

• Interest Rates in Banking Book - IRBB, Model and Calculations

  A complete worked example of:

  • Loading and transforming Position data into a Standarized model
  • Calculating IRBB on set of Trades, alongside tests to validate