The Austrian Data Hero Award is presented annually by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV - Working Group for Data Processing) for outstanding data governance projects. Brigitte Marsteurer was awarded the Young Talent Award in 2020 for the conception of ALADIN.
ALADIN brought light into the data darkness. Brigitte Marsteurer and her colleagues have redesigned the data management of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG) with the "Automatic Performance, Order and Dissemination Instrument". As part of her studies, in addition to her work at GÖG, Marsteurer is completing the Master’s Course in Digitization, Politics and Communication at FH Campus Wien, she conceptually prepared the ALADIN project again and submitted it to the Austrian Data Hero Award.
Ms. Marsteurer, how do you feel as a data hero?
Good - but the award is not just personal. Above all, it is confirmation for our entire team and that we are on the right track with ALADIN.
Which should lead you exactly where?
To a place in which our project-related data is merged and linked centrally. For operational requirements, we at GÖG have to manage and maintain programs and tools independently of one another. This results in redundant databases and additional maintenance work because data has to be collected and entered in several places. With ALADIN, we have created a kind of internal "data warehouse" where programs and data are brought together centrally.
What are the advantages of this?
We can now find data on projects and employees more quickly, update it more easily and use it better and more diversely. For example, data sets are exported directly to the annual project and service catalog or to our website, key figures are automatically incorporated into the intellectual capital statement and the quarterly report for project controlling is generated from the data in the project module, to name just a few applications. We are constantly working on further new possibilities.
As part of your studies, you prepared ALADIN conceptually again and presented it as a seminar paper in the course “Information Systems”. What prompted you to submit the project for the Austrian Data Hero Award?
To be honest, the idea came from the head of the course. She told us about the award and specifically motivated me to submit my seminar paper in the Talents category.
Which brought you success!
Yes, it was worth the effort. ALADIN was selected by the jury as the best project from all the submissions and awarded prize money. I can now use that to help pay for my studies.
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