Key Benefits

• ■     Data integration -- the data warehouse may be the only place where data from separate organizational stovepipes can be combined to provide a complete view. This capability can make it possible, for the first time, to get an integrated view of the supply chain from raw materials to final consumer;

• ■     Reduce cost of current efforts -- in many enterprises there is a large and typically undocumented cost associated with producing reports that would be much easier with a data warehouse;

• ■     Customer and product profitability -- understanding both your customers and your product costs are critical to becoming a lean and focused business;

• ■     Competition is doing it -- if the number one competitor in an industry segment is building a data warehouse, it is a good bet that others will follow on that basis alone; and,

• ■     Common view and understanding of numbers,models, tools, and the business -- there is a need to create consistent and widely understood numbers for business planning and monitoring.

By using specialized tools to extract, transform and load data stores, Data Integra has you up and running significantly faster than a typical warehousing project. This is achieved by linking the data warehousing initiative to an essential business objective chosen by top management, and delivering by component.