Data Warehousing

Fact Sheet

Data Warehousing Consolidation Solutions

Multiple datamarts? Stovepipe systems? Cognizant has the solution!

Cognizant’s data warehousing consolidation strategy helps you stay competitive.

In this age of information, data warehouses are vital competitive tools. But when your company has so many different datamarts, linking these rich knowledgecenters becomes impossible. Unless you use a dynamic consolidation strategy – like Cognizant’s.

By executing a portion of your data warehousing work in India, Cognizant provides the in-depth IT resources required. Around-the-clock. Seven-days-a-week. Which includes the long hours of hand coding needed to get individual datamarts to talk to one another, and to you.

Here, too, our onsite/offshore capabilities ensure that your consolidation project has the resources required to produce optimum results, quickly and cost-efficiently. Just ask the Fortune 1000 companies whose consolidation problems we’ve already solved.

Whether your stovepipe datamarts stem from a merger or acquisition. Or simply come from working in a large organization with many business units. Cognizant can design a consolidation solution customized to meet your unique knowledgemanagement needs.

Then, of course, there’s the need for frequent refreshing and loading. Metadata synchronization. And the version maintenance required to reflect slowly changing dimensions, so that the centralized view of information you’re working with is always current – and available in easy-to-access reports.

For example, the applications we developed for one client allowed them to view data intuitively, in three dimensions, so they could analyze information from any dimension they chose.

In fact, our onsite/offshore business model is exceptionally and strategically well suited to deliver the labor intensive capabilities data consolidation demands – without blowing your IT budget.

Knowledge-rich. Budget-wise. Consolidating a proliferation of datamarts requires massive amounts of time and talent.

Exceptional project management. At least 20% of the Cognizant team working on your project

SMART TOOLS Cognizant’s proprietary software tools help us design the consolidation strategy that’s right for you. For example: The Business Query Analyzer provides a high-level view of the warehouse schema, helping our analysts understand the relationships between your business needs and your data consolidation requirements. InfoSmith automates the data acquisition processes. This not only gives us tremendous flexibility in creating complex extract schedules, it allows us to generate reports, gather load status, and perform many other acquisition functions with speed and precision.

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is actually onsite. A dedicated onsite manager oversees all work, including everything done offshore. To establish an easy, effortless flow of communication we construct a site-to-site voice and video conferencing infrastructure. Put in place a fiber-optic, data-transfer network. Ensure that source code never leaves your site. And deliver benefits that only a 24-hour work day can provide, such as software updates meticulously completed during off-peak hours. In short, every Cognizant-hour is a productive hour, because our onsite/offshore model eliminates down-time – while maintaining a smooth, safe, efficient work process. And thanks to the continual improvements we make to our field-tested software engineering processes – we provide a level of quality rarely equaled anywhere. Really. Cognizant has been registered with SEI-CMM Level 5 certification – a level of IT excellence achieved by less than 1.5% of other companies anywhere on earth.

The bottom line. Whether you judge us by our exceptional data consolidation solutions. Our superior project management skills. Or our overall level of exceptional IT expertise. By any standard, Cognizant Technology Solutions is uniquely equipped to help you integrate and access the wealth of information your data has to offer.

Data Warehousing. Cognizant puts dynamic, consolidation technology at your command.

Why choose Cognizant as your IT source for data warehousing solutions? End-to-end consolidation and solutions Worldclass IT capabilities Superior project management • Source data analysis • Data acquisition • Data warehouse/ datamart building

Cognizant’s SEI-CMM Level 5 classification ranks us among the top IT companies in the world.

• Application development/managed query environment/reporting • OLAP interface decision support

Cognizant’s onsite/offshore capabilities have delivered more flexible, efficient, and cost-effective IT consulting for hundreds of competitive companies, worldwide.

• Data warehouse/ datamart web-enabling • Data mining Plus, on-going R&D • Tools evaluation and benchmarking • Functional prototype development • Data extraction, cleansing, and loading • Maintenance/enhancement of existing data warehouses

Cognizant delivers it all. Experts in IT consulting. Innovators in data warehousing solutions.