Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

The objective in data warehousing is to build a high-performance information repository that serves as a strategic resource. Unlike traditional decision-support systems, the data warehouse is built on an active model of your information needs and consists of a synthesis of key operational and historical data as well as relevant data from outside the organization.

Several factors are crucial to the successful implementation of a data warehousing solution. First, it is critical to properly design and implement the databases that lie at the heart of your data warehouse. Second, all components of the data warehouse solution -- data repository, network, application logic, and user interface -- must be designed to work together in a flexible, easy-to-use way. A third task is to develop a consistent data model and establish what and how source data will be extracted.

In addition to addressing these factors, you need the data warehouse created quickly so that your organization can gain the business benefits as soon as possible. A data-warehousing project can unquestionably be complex and challenging: How do you get the appropriate solution, with the right pieces, delivered as quickly as possible?


The VSoft Technologies Solution

We can help. Our consultants are experts at delivering high-performance, scalable, and reliable data warehouse solutions that achieve early results. A key part of our offering involves leveraging reusable data models and applications to accelerate the delivery process. This approach captures the critical components of a business area into a structured format, and can start the process of getting your data warehouse up and running more quickly.

Our expertise in databases, gateways, query and analysis tools, and third-party software ensures that you get top-notch technical knowledge. Whether it's in applying multidimensional analysis, using business intelligence tools (OLAP and Reporting), or integrating disparate applications, our consultants bring product know-how combined with industry and project experience to every project.


Analyze the Business Needs

Since the data warehouse is often strategic in nature, careful analysis and planning is a critical first step. We can assist you in analyzing your organization's business objectives, decision-making process, operational environment, and technical architecture to properly establish the scope of the data warehouse implementation.

Our consultants begin with a business needs analysis that identifies business and technology requirements for the data warehouse solution. Then we develop an overall implementation plan that encompasses the initial scope as well as longer-term objectives of the data warehouse.


Design for Performance

Your information repository must be robust and scalable enough to store, organize, and aggregate a huge stream of information gathered from multiple systems over long periods of time. At the same time, it must support complex ad hoc queries. Too often, data warehousing projects are derailed because of inaccurate database sizing or a poorly tuned database design.

Our consultants are the experts on different technologies, and with practical experience building and managing very large databases; they can deliver a high-performance data warehouse solution.


Create the Data Structure & Metadata

Defining the data to collect and store is one of the most important steps in ensuring that operational data is transformed and integrated into the data warehouse. The data structure is the basis for integrating your source systems, and it serves a broader function as an overall information map of the enterprise.

Our consultants have performed professional data modeling on many successful projects. And, we have proven industry data models that we use to help speed the process and provide additional insights.


Assemble the Solution

An effective data warehouse requires that all the components of your solution -- hardware, network, database, and other applications -- work in concert to provide a high-performance, easily maintainable application. The first step is determining which components are right for your technical and business environment. Our consultants' help you select from a wide array of software for data loading, management, query and analysis, and extraction, as well as from specialized partner offerings.


Plan for the future

We deliver a scalable, high-performance application that can grow with you as your needs change. Once the data warehouse is up and running, our consultants set up database management procedures, analyze performance, benchmark new configurations, and plan the next steps to expand it.

For further information, contact us at info@vsofttech.com