Data Warehousing

A data warehouse is a single repository of your entire organisation’s IT-based data.  It is designed for optimum decision support and as the solid foundation for rapid planning and modelling cycles which help your organisation to gain strategic advantage through Business Intelligence and Business Analytics.

Data warehousing is a well established technique which overcomes the limitations of data held by separate and scattered IT systems – in accounting, HR, manufacturing, sales, etc.  A single data warehouse spans all these systems, using each as a valuable data source to provide your organisation with a single, holistic view of its data.

ETL tools (Extract/Transform/Load) play a major part in effective data warehouses, providing the all-important link between the data in the disparate systems underneath and its preferred representation in the data warehouse for onward use.  Data is validated and cleansed in every transfer, bi-directionally, maintaining the integrity of data in the warehouse as well as data used by individual/local systems.

Benefits

The advantages of data warehousing for your organisation are significant:

• Joining up data from disparate systems gives decision makers swift and continual access to information which may not have been available previously – or was simply too time-consuming to produce.
• Valuable time is released from tedious data processing, debugging and ‘finger-pointing’ between departments, improving productivity, and the speed and quality of decision making throughout your organisation.
• All decision makers are working from the same reliable data and reports, enabling them to take action confidently and collaboratively for your organisation’s ‘greater good’.

Advanced Business Solutions’ Data Warehousing offerings

A data warehouse is a pre-requisite to successful Business Intelligence and Business Analytics implementations, so its design and construction are critical.

With over 500 successful implementations to date, Advanced Business Solutions’ skilled consultants are well equipped to deliver the efficient and effective data warehouse your organisation needs to realise the full benefits of Business Intelligence and Business Analytics.

Advanced Business Solutions is technology agnostic, and our data warehousing portfolio includes these best-in-class offerings to suit various sizes and types of organisation.

Each is complemented with offerings in the Data Quality and Master Data Management layers to complete the technology staging of your organisation’s implementation.

• Advanced Business Solutions’ Corporate Analytics suite for midsize to large organisations, and World Class Commissioning PCT Analytics for the healthcare sector.
• IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse for midsize and large/complex organisations.
• Microsoft SQL Server for midsize organisations with dynamic information needs.
• Oracle Database 11g for large organisations with high throughput/demanding information needs.
• Advanced Business Solutions’ Strategic BI Consulting services for implementation consultancy, product training and on-going support.