Data Services
| Edgewater Technology has been providing IT clients with the necessary knowledge and experience to successfully integrate data from the most complex systems. With proven methodologies, Edgewater has delivered data service solutions that have enabled organizations to access, integrate, transform, and deliver enterprise data from any source to their end-users in order to make tactical, strategic, and business decisions.
Companies must deliver solutions that rely on consistent, accurate and reliable data. Poor data integration can jeopardize data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives, because the source data doesn't provide an accurate picture of the business. Yet organizations invest millions of dollars to implement these important business initiatives.
Edgewater’s Data Services Practice concentrates on providing a metadata framework for management of diverse data sets, providing expertise in data conversion, cleansing, and consolidate services. This is achieved through technology and business consulting in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Data warehouses and data marts are intended to solve the problem of disparate data sources and the incompatible goals of transaction processing and BI applications.
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A Data Service architecture enables companies to access external and internal information, and gives users a personalized interface needed to make business decisions. The challenge is consolidating the multiple information repositories that need to be integrated to achieve true Business Intelligence capabilities, and accessing them efficiently.
This means the ability to deliver the right information to the right person (customers, partners, and employees) at the right time, thus ensuring quality decisions are made in support of the business objectives (financial, cultural, innovation, etc.) Although, Data Services is not a project, it is comprised of projects (data warehouse, business intelligence, video, text search, knowledge management, Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL), workflow, etc.) that incrementally bring you closer to the intended state where people, content, and technology are maximized. Pursuing a Data Services framework means first focusing on the business, people, culture and content, not on tools and technology.
Our experience has shown that taking the following into consideration when initiating your framework has improved quality and success. The key steps are:
- Identify the business and cultural challenges
- Prioritize the initiatives based on risk and reward
- Establish a framework to measure and monitor the success of your initiatives
- Assess internal readiness
- Carefully select software based on predetermined criteria
- Strive for incremental deliverables
The need for effective Data Services is only increasing. The consulting organization you select should provide a comprehensive understanding of your needs and objectives, as well as familiarity with the best products and architecture to solve those challenges. Let Edgewater provide that experience and be your consulting company of choice.