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Many retailers support a number of disparate, stove-piped systems that each capture important data about day-to-day business processes. Yet business users cannot get a complete picture of their business unless they integrate these data assets into a single system.
CadenceQuest offers a variety of services that help clients integrate their data sources into a centralized environment that is optimized for reporting and analysis. These services include:
Data Integration — Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL)
The CadenceQuest team designs and develops an exact process for mapping and loading data to ensure that the correct data is moving through a client's systems at any point in time. Each engagement begins with a detailed audit of current data capture processes and infrastructure across the enterprise. Data is the foundation of all analysis — our thorough approach and methodology ensure that the key questions business users pose will be supported by a single view of clean data.
During a Data Integration engagement, CadenceQuest provides a client with:
- Documentation and Metadata of ETL process design and procedures
- Versioning strategy
- Analysis of data content and format in current database tables
- Update / load process and schedule
- ETL scripts, programs or procedures
Data Warehouse Design, Development and Optimization
Based on a client's reporting and functional requirements, CadenceQuest develops a sound framework for collecting and organizing the data assets that reflects an organization's unique business model and definitions.
As part of a Data Warehousing engagement, CadenceQuest provides a client with:
- Detailed functional requirements document
- Design document
- Logical data model
- Strawman diagram of the attribute hierarchy
- Physical data model
- Data dictionary