Practice Overview
Our Enterprise Information Management (EIM) practice helps customers to make better, more informed business decisions by providing data definitions that will be accepted throughout the organization, an understanding of how information interrelates and its meaning to various units across the organization.
We work with customers to develop tailored solutions that streamline business processes, simplify data collection, assure data quality, provide data access and generate analytical reporting.
We build our services around customer need and aim to reduce costs.
Services
Data Governance - Strategy and implementation of overall management to allow availability, usability, integrity, and security of the data employed in an enterprise.
Data Quality Management - Analysis and implementation activities to define, monitor, and enhance data quality.
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management - Implementation and management of data to enable users to access data in a way that results in more effective reporting and analysis and better supports the decision process.
Reference & Master Data Management - Strategy, implementation and control actions to improve master data quality and management and optimize business processes.
Database Operations Management - Implementation of control and support functions for structured data sources within the enterprise.
Sample Engagements
Strategy
A comprehensive Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy engagement for an Internet Publishing and Music Distribution company, including:
Requirements workshops and requirements evaluation of business needs related to analytics and reporting;
Fit/Gap assessment of BI reporting tools and vendors.
Forward-looking Vision and roadmap encompassing changes to culture, process, and technology
A Management Advisory engagement for a major Transportation and Shipping organization, to introduce key management players to BI concepts, and associated Data Governance dependencies. This engagement included
Multiple workshops for management
Goal and Requirement review and conflict assessment
Action plan to assess Data Quality, Availability, and Stewardship practices
Final presentation highlighting BI and Data Governance Best Practices within client’s context, along with overview of potentially applicable BI vendors and tools
Implementation
Design and implementation of BusinessObjects XI as an analytical reporting environment for marketing and accounting departments in a major entertainment company.
Implementation of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) /Key Performance Indicators (KPI) practices integrating file-based data sources and a data warehouse environment. This engagement included Cognos Analytics dashboards and scorecards for a major sea shipping company.
Design and implementation of the Cognos ReportNet 8.0 reporting environment for a local government time tracking payroll system.
Implementation of analytics in E-Discovery reporting using BusinessObjects and MS Analysis Services Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for a leading Email Archiving and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) vendor.
Technology and Tools
Our practice is founded on the skills of senior-level project managers, business analysts, technical analysts and qualified implementation staff with years of experience in various Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Systems. Our technical resources have implemented solutions with a wide variety of tools including, but not limited to SAP BusinessObjects, Oracle BI, Informatica, DataStage, and Ab Initio.