Clarium can assists you in designing and implementing a comprehensive data warehousing solution. Our data warehousing consultants use an iterative approach that includes reusable data models and applications to rapidly deliver a high-performance and scalable system. We have assembled project teams with the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver the business solutions your organization requires.

The Implementation Challenge

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. The right architecture and design can ensure performance today and scalability tomorrow. 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 Solution: Reusable Models and Technical Expertise

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 comprehensive data warehouse program combines database technologies with the practical integration and implementation experience of our consultants. With years of experience helping customers design and implement large, enterprise-wide systems, We have the right skills and resources to assist you in creating your data warehouse.

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, 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. We match these requirements with a set of models and architectures based on past successes. 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.

The best choice for the design and implementation of a high-performance data warehouse is the same company that builds the database itself. Our consultants are the experts on different technologies, and bring the most advanced techniques and tools for database design and implementation. With practical experience building and managing very large databases, our consultants can deliver a high-performance data warehouse solution.

Create the Data Structure

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. The success of your data warehouse depends to a large extent on the accuracy, consistency, and correctness of this central integration point. 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. For example, one of our data models represents a marketing promotional data model. This model encompasses key functionality such as information on customers and prospects, market segments, account and phone numbers, usage and summary, and promotion tracking. This model also includes a front-end application that provides the end user the ability to develop, track, and reuse marketing campaigns.

Whether we create a data model from scratch or reuse or refine an existing model, our consultants apply a number of techniques to verify and refine your data model. The result is a practical, accurate information map that helps you integrate your disparate data sources into a single, coherent framework.

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 consultant’s 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.

Our consultants have tested and proven a number of architectures and configurations, and we use this knowledge to help you get results quickly. We have years of experience implementing large, complex applications, coupled with intense training in technology. These strengths give us an edge in designing and implementing the right configuration.

We work with you to integrate and tune your entire system for maximum performance. And we provide the technology transfer services essential for your continued success, helping you develop your in-house expertise with We systems.

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 data management performance, benchmark new configurations, and plan the next steps to expand it.

The right architecture can form the basis for a definitive, enterprise-wide data warehouse. We will help you evolve your data warehouse, which might include increased functionality, more users, or additional data sources. The result is a system that encompasses all existing environments and provides access to key decision-makers at every level of your organization -- today and in the future.