Smart Data Platform — Reference Architecture

End-to-end platform map showing data ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption layers.

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Smart Data Platform Reference Architecture Three-tier architecture: Engagement and Interaction at top, Intelligence Models and Agents in the middle, Foundational Data and Operations at the bottom, with a Human-in-the-Loop supervision checkpoint. ef eurofins Smart Data Platform Human-in-the-loop data & AI reference architecture Engagement & interaction Intelligence, models & agents Foundational data & operations Users Business Citizen analysts Developers Scientists ↗ consumer zone Productivity apps Team collaboration Data sheets & comms Low-code automation Workflow builder ↗ consumer zone BI & insights Governed dashboards Semantic metrics AI-generated insights ML predictions ↗ observability & audit eLABSuite Specialized industry surfaces (consumption role) eLIMS-BPT eELN eOMS eVRM GxP Archive LabAccess Also a data source — see foundational tier below ↗ consumer zone Unified intelligence & agentic processing layer ↗ AI runtime & execution Core data Structured knowledge Relational & graph Service intelligence Semantic models Classical ML ↗ data & knowledge Knowledge OntoEurofins Ontology & graph AD rule graph OWL / SKOS Lineage graph ↗ ontology concept RAG & retrieval Vector databases Embedding models Hybrid search LLM / SLM Agentic retrieval ↗ RAG concept Human-in-the-loop supervision checkpoint ↗ policy control plane Knowledge-grounded agents Retrieval, reasoning, grounded responses MCP tool invocation ↗ agent platforms Autonomous agents Durable execution ↗ agent platforms Specialist domain agents AD rule · doc intel ↗ agent infra real-time streams eLABSuite (data sources) eLIMS-BPT eELN · eOMS eVRM · GxP Arc. Sensors & devices Lab instruments ↗ backend systems Integrated data & fabric Unified data lake Lakehouses Warehouses Eventhouses ELT pipelines ↗ data & knowledge data transformation Medallion architecture Bronze Silver Golden records Raw → curated → trusted ↗ data lakehouse Semantic ontologies OntoEurofins · AFO / BFO Class hierarchies & SKOS ↗ ontology concept Data governance Catalog & lineage Provenance & audit ↗ governance catalog Data products Trustworthy & governed GxP audit records Certified outputs CoA · LabAccess Regulatory outputs Partner APIs ↗ observability & audit feedback loop as sources Smart Data Platform Reference Architecture · Eurofins BPT · v1.0 draft