Systems and Data Fabric
Systems hold data, data supports decisions, and decisions have to be defensible years later. This is the layer where a regulated enterprise usually discovers that its evidence lives in six places and reconciles in none.
Every system here declares its kind, because utility, process equipment and computerised system are three values of one field and collapsing them is how a utility question gets answered with an IT answer. Almost every row ends in a failure mode — how the crossing goes wrong, how the authoritative copy is lost, the ordinary convenience that defeats the segregation, what the control does not prove. A map showing only the intended design would be an architecture diagram. SPEQ is the system of record for none of the evidence described, and this landscape is a synthetic teaching model rather than any real site. For the catalog of system classes — what an eQMS or a LIMS is — see the systems catalog.
A regulated enterprise has three kinds of system and one evidence obligation. Declaring the kind is what keeps a utility conversation from being answered with an IT answer.
System landscape — all twelve systems
Selecting a system opens what it holds, what it exchanges and what it emits as evidence.
Illustrative synthetic landscape for interface design. System names are generic classes, not product endorsements, and SPEQ is not the system of record for any evidence shown here.