Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Data Transformation Services - Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence (DW/BI) Consulting Services
HCL offers end-to-end Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Consulting services covering the entire spectrum (Figure) of a DW/BI's life cycle by deploying the Data Transformation Methodology (DTM).
We provide the complete range of DW/BI services starting from DW/BI strategy consulting, integration, data management, reporting and analysis to maintenance and enhancement. We have been engaged in end- to-end DW/BI assignments with our customers in different verticals involving diverse technologies.
- DW/BI readiness assessment
Our DW/BI assessment examines the customer's organization on the dimensions of business, IT, application and architecture, and data. - Assessment of current DW/BI environments
We review the DW/BI environment with customer's customers, business users, IT management, IT support staff and the DW/BI team. We review the current systems and, if appropriate, customer's future plans. - DW/BI strategy and roadmap
Supported by the assessment service outcomes, our DW/BI professional consultants, along with domain experts, help our customers devise DW/BI strategy to meet their future requirements. - DW/BI tools evaluation
we leverage our industry expertise to provide an assessment or simply assist by providing an unbiased second opinion during phases where the customer is trying to choose from the vast array of tools and strategies so as to plan the Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Management, or Data Integration technologies. - DW/BI solution modeling
After the initial assessment and strategy phases, our team of specialists offers the customer the Data Warehouse design.
In today's competitive and dynamic business environment, it is essential for an enterprise to obtain a macro level view of both its own information assets and of that of the external world. In order to take advantage of the information lying in different silos of the Enterprise Applications, the organization needs to decide from several options of Data integration such as Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Enterprise application Integration (EAI) or the latest Enterprise Information Integration (EII).
Our ETL service methodology has the following stages- Identification of ETL tool
- Collection and analysis of ETL requirements
- Designing of the ETL layer
- Development of the ETL application
Performance appraisal
- Securing and automation of the ETL process
The final piece of the jigsaw in a DW/BI service is the data access and reporting service as it takes up the task of converting information from a cost-center to an asset capable of transforming the business. The services consist of the following components
- Design of different modes of presentation
- Static reporting
- OLAP reporting
- On-demand reporting
- "what-if" analysis
- Development of reports
- Information access security
One of the key success elements for DW/BI projects is post-implementation support and maintenance. On-going maintenance of the Data Warehouse Management is essential for maintaining up-to-date, accurate and consistent business information that facilitates efficient decision making and helps in gaining competitive advantage. We offer the following services
- DW/BI production support services
- DW/BI application maintenance services
- Enhancement services:
HCL offers the following DW/BI migration services
- Migration of Data / DW/BI application from legacy systems
- Migration from multiple technology environments to single vendor platforms
- Migration of reporting applications from former versions to current version
- Migration from monolithic applications to tool-based environment for ease of maintenance
