From Complexity to Clarity: Scaling DORA Operationally with Dataciders and Exasol
If the first wave of DORA felt like juggling overlapping requirements, you’re not alone. Across banks, insurers, and fintechs, Dataciders sees the same operational friction: unclear scope, rising ICT risk expectations, fear of strict incident reporting timelines, manual third-party registers, and resource-intensive testing processes. The burden is especially heavy for smaller firms with limited resources, where proportionality is critical. But large enterprises also struggle to find the balance between regulatory demands and business value. Wave one is done. Wave two is about operationalizing evidence, reducing complexity, and scaling what works where it matters most.
Prepare for DORA With Confidence
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Why DORA Stalls After “Day One”
DORA often lands on top of already strained environments, adding pressure without resolving underlying issues:
- Many organizations remain burdened by deep technical and organizational debt, amplified by complexity from failed, fragmented, or abandoned projects and restructuring efforts.
- Demands are intensifying from all directions whether it’s time-to-report for incidents, centralized third-party oversight, or BCDR testing beyond a one-off drill.
- Siloed thinking persists across Risk, Compliance, Data Governance, Resilience, Procurement, Legal, Operations, and Project teams leading to misaligned priorities and fragmented execution.
- Due to demanding regulatory deadlines, many requirements have been fulfilled in a “half-baked” manner without sustainable implementation.
- With rising complexity, fragmented data and tooling, service architecture and IT delivery remain disconnected from business value.
- Budgets are shrinking, and the skills and motivation needed to operate and maintain rising complexity are increasingly scarce.
The Dataciders Approach: End-to-End Efficiency
Dataciders goes beyond implementation; we optimize operations end-to-end.
Our approach transforms the sprawling scope of DORA into an efficient operating model that strengthens your existing operations, risk, compliance, procurement, and security processes instead of simply layering checklists on top. We focus on data-driven insights and automation that deliver business value beyond regulatory expectations.
Wave Two: Three Operational Levers for Scaling DORA
- Operationalize the Service Landscape
Move beyond static inventories. Build a dynamic service catalog that reflects real-time dependencies, ownership, and CIF criticality. Use it to drive control prioritization and avoid overengineering.
Exasol’s role: Enrich the catalog with federated data from monitoring, ticketing, and vendor systems making service health and availability visible across silos. - Automate Evidence, Not Just Reporting
Shift from manual documentation to automated, audit-grade evidence. Controls should generate their own proof access logs, DR test results, recovery timings without extra overhead.
Exasol’s role: Provide federated observability across your existing stack, enabling real-time dashboards and on-demand compliance snapshots. - Integrate DORA into Daily Ops
Embed DORA into existing delivery, risk, and security processes. Avoid the “parallel program” trap by aligning with what teams already do incident response, vendor onboarding, service reviews.
Exasol’s role: Layer analytics and control tracking into current workflows, so DORA becomes part of business-as-usual, not a separate burden.
90-Day Outcomes
- A sequenced roadmap aligned to your live service catalog
- Automated evidence tracking for DORA requirements
- Reduced delivery risk through realistic planning and procurement visibility
- Early wins in incident reporting, vendor oversight, and service recertification
Next Step
Book a free 90-minute DORA Maturity Workshop with Dataciders. Together, we’ll review your service catalog and assess the current status of your DORA implementation. As a result, you’ll receive:
- A tailored maturity and gap analysis
- A proportionate, sequenced roadmap
- An automation-first evidence plan powered by Exasol
Let us help you turn regulatory complexity into operational clarity.
