Data Architecture Planning/Data Warehousing

Your data architecture is the backbone of your business intelligence solution – serving as the framework across which all mission-critical enterprise information will be retrieved and analyzed. Before you implement your new solution, you need to ensure that all elements of your technology infrastructure are prepared to support high-speed data access and reporting.

Our data architecture planning and data warehousing services are designed to deliver immediate value and rapid return by helping you maximize your existing technology investments, and optimize your infrastructure to best meet your business intelligence requirements. Our consultants possess in-depth knowledge of data access needs from both a business and technology perspective, and leverage proven, field-tested methodologies and techniques. So, they can design an end-to-end data environment that tightly aligns with your processes, business drivers, goals, and critical success factors.

This comprehensive service includes:

• A facilitated workshop, conducted with members of both your functional management and technical teams, to uncover current and future data access obstacles and needs.
• A complete review of your current environment, including identification of key data sources, and a full assessment of the quality and accessibility of the information they contain.
• Identification of those business units and end users that face the greatest challenges when it comes to information access and analysis, and the root causes of their issues.
• Definition of a high-level architecture, and recommendations for augmenting, enhancing, or expanding your current infrastructure to best satisfy your reporting and analysis needs.
• A roadmap that outlines detailed project plans and schedules from start to finish, including the steps, activities, and resources needed for the design, implementation, and deployment phases.
• Return on investment scenarios that highlight potential cost savings and revenue increases.

During the course of our investigation, we may find that planned reporting and analysis activities may negatively impact the performance of your back-end transaction systems. Therefore, we may recommend a complete data warehousing solution, to protect your operational environment. If your company needs a data warehouse, our consultants can get one up and running quickly and smoothly by:

• Creating data models and data marts to centralize critical enterprise information, and maximize its accessibility for reporting and analysis purposes.
• Identifying the primary data sources within your environment, and designing and executing end-to-end ETL processes to manage the initial migration of information into the target warehouse, as well as ongoing updates and refreshes.
• Assisting in the evaluation and selection of various leading vendors (such as Informatica, Ascential, Cognos, Microsoft, etc.), so you can choose the best technologies and solutions for your specific needs.
• Overseeing the installation of all software, hardware, and other components.
• Designing and developing the interfaces between your data warehouses and marts, and your business intelligence application.