Fact Sheet Data Warehousing Consolidation Solutions

Multiple datamarts?
Stovepipe systems?
Cognizant has the solution!

In this age of information, By executing a portion of Here, too, our onsite/offshore

data warehouses are vital
competitive tools. But when
your company has so many
different datamarts, linking
these rich knowledge-
centers becomes impossible.
Unless you use a dynamic
consolidation strategy – like
Cognizant’s.
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.
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 consolida-
tion problems we’ve already
solved.

Whether your stovepipe data-
marts stem from a merger
or acquisition. Or simply
Cognizant’s data come from working in a large
organization with many busi-
warehousing ness units. Cognizant can
consolidation design a consolidation
solution customized to meet
strategy helps your unique knowledge-
you stay management needs.
competitive. In fact, our onsite/offshore
business model is exception-
ally 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.
Then, of course, there’s the For example, the applications
need for frequent refreshing we developed for one client
and loading. Metadata allowed them to view data
synchronization. And the intuitively, in three dimen-
version maintenance required sions, so they could analyze
to reflect slowly changing information from any dimen-
dimensions, so that the cen- sion they chose.
tralized view of information
you’re working with is always
Exceptional project
management.
current – and available in
At least 20% of the Cognizant
easy-to-access reports.
team working on your project
SMART TOOLS
Cognizant’s proprietary software tools help us design the consolida-
tion 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 relation-
ships 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
Data Warehousing.
Cognizant puts dynamic, consolidation
work, including everything
technology at your command.
done offshore. To establish an
easy, effortless flow of commu-
nication we construct a
site-to-site voice and video Why choose Cognizant as your IT source
conferencing infrastructure.
Put in place a fiber-optic,
for data warehousing solutions?
data-transfer network. Ensure
that source code never leaves End-to-end consolidation and solutions
your site. And deliver benefits
that only a 24-hour work day
can provide, such as software Worldclass IT capabilities
updates meticulously com-
pleted 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.
Superior project management
• Source data analysis
• Data acquisition
• Data warehouse/
Cognizant’s datamart building

And thanks to the continual

SEI-CMM Level 5 • Application develop-
improvements we make to our classification ranks ment/managed query
field-tested software engineer- us among the top environment/reporting
ing processes – we provide a IT companies in • OLAP interface
level of quality rarely equaled the world. decision support
anywhere. Really.
• Data warehouse/
Cognizant has been registered datamart web-enabling
with SEI-CMM Level 5 Cognizant’s
certification – a level of IT onsite/offshore • Data mining
excellence achieved by less capabilities have Plus, on-going R&D
than 1.5% of other companies delivered more
• Tools evaluation and
anywhere on earth. flexible, efficient, benchmarking
The bottom line. and cost-effective
IT consulting for • Functional prototype
Whether you judge us by our
development
exceptional data consolidation hundreds of
solutions. Our superior project competitive compa- • Data extraction,
management skills. Or our nies, worldwide. cleansing, and loading
overall level of exceptional IT
• Maintenance/enhance-
expertise. By any standard,
ment of existing data
Cognizant Technology Solutions
warehouses
is uniquely equipped to help
you integrate and access the
wealth of information your data
has to offer.

Cognizant delivers it all.

Experts in IT consulting. Innovators in data
warehousing solutions.