Manage Oracle Center of Excellence (CoE):-

At the Oracle Applications Centre of Excellence (CoE), we focus on excellence in delivery,

innovation, process improvements, knowledge management & technical competency
development.

The COE is structured along three key dimensions: industry, business process & technology.

Knowledge management  Solution (Domain Competency development

•Industry and technology specific)
point solution •Extensive application
•Reusable frameworks and  Extended teams for testing
components ongoing projects •Industry and process
•Tools and accelerators  Research on appreciation program
•White papers and alternate solutions •Proof of concept
technical documents  Research on new •Internal projects
•Methodologies and product
templates. functionality
 Testing Accelerators
& Frameworks
 Report Migrations
 Our dedicated
Centre of
Excellence for
leading DW-BI
tools has helped us
develop
proprietary
Solution
Accelerators &
Frameworks to
increase
implementation
agility, improve
time to market and
reduce cost
implementations

Solution Factory
 Testing Accelerators
 Report Migrations


#Solution Factory: Teams closely with engineering, business group, and Global delivery to create
solutions accelerators in support of the Data Insights solutions road map.
•Designs and assembles robust and scalable Data Insights solutions (BigData/Business
Analytics/Business Intelligence)
•Creates and leads architecture design, evaluate and assess technologies, define approach for
engineering of productized solution accelerators, and enable industrialized delivery
•Leads the creation of proof-of-concept pilots and the development of prototypes to prove solutions,
technologies and business process interactions.
•Drives the design of user interaction models, workflows and user interfaces, if applicable.
•Explores and develops new solutions in collaboration with research and product groups to support new
analytics initiatives.
•Contributes customer and market feedback, lessons learned and IP to continuously improve the solution

#Customer-facing Pre-Sales Engagements: Teams closely with Platform sales specialists and Services
sales during opportunity discovery. Contribute to win sales pursuits focused on Data Insights solutions,
leveraging solution accelerators as entry points. Delivers envisioning workshops, designs and develops
proof-of-concept prototypes and assists in the development of production pilots.
•Leading initial client engagements, starting with BDM-focused solution envisioning.
•Selecting technology based upon business vision, designing solution architecture design, designing and
developing POC application, guiding pilot solution development, testing, and deployment.
•Architect and develop conceptual, logical and physical data models for business analytics and decision
management solutions.
•Architect and develop the ETL components to populate Business Analytics databases from various
source systems.
•Architect and develop analytics sandbox databases to support statistical analysis, modeling, data mining,
and machine learning,

The Solutions Architect in the Data Insights CoE is involved in risk management for the practice as well
as in the entire solution lifecycle but is most critical during solution assembly, sales support, discovery
and design phases, with a strong focus on Data Insights solutions for Customer Analytics, Human Capital
Management, Operational Performance Management. Duties include:
•Solution assembly: Demonstrates thought leadership and contributes to solution engineering and
assembly, drives IP development and reuse initiatives. Leads the development of solution accelerators.
•Solution fulfillment: Collaborates with platform sales and services sales teams during pre-sales of
solution accelerators. Demonstrates and drives valuable customer partner interactions, including
customer engagements that require architectural governance. Provides customer guidance during
solution sales cycle to architect team members.
•Engagement management: Assists field engagement managers by ensuring proper business justification
for solution accelerators is demonstrated to customers, and supports creation of statements of work.
•Business development: Brings their years of experience and expertise to bear on local business
development opportunities and opportunity discovery. Contributes to thought leadership within and across
both their local Microsoft business and more broadly across other Microsoft businesses.
•Leadership: Communicates vision, business direction, & workgroup commitments. Plays a vital part in
business strategy by providing internal practice management risk assessment. Contributes to
organizational change management for accelerating adoption of solution sales and industrialized solution
delivery capabilities

Demonstrated competencies of a practicing architect:

•Ability to successfully engage with business and IT stakeholders.
•Strong executive presence and ability to interact with top executives.
•Understanding of the local or regional markets.
•Ability to translate technology capabilities into business capabilities.
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills to business and technical audiences. Ability to use
contextual visualization to demonstrate business value of hard analytical data.
•Ability to create compelling value propositions and deliver quantified business justifications.
•Application development lifecycle, discovering patterns and practices.
•Solution architecture design, DBMS architecture.
•Inclusion of quality attributes in solution designs (security, availability, resilience, performance,
scalability, cost, usability)
•Excellent analytical and problem solving competencies: Ability to assess sources and losses of value
through the customer’s entire business; developing insights into previously unrecognized business
dynamics; translating complex quantitative results into business-relevant conclusions
•Information modeling (ERStudio, ERwin, etc), data structures, master data management, data quality
management, information governance, data warehousing.
•Object / relational mapping
•Structured and unstructured data analysis
•Understanding of algorithms
•Analytical skills, including stochastic and deterministic optimization
Hands-on technical skills with:
•End-to-end Microsoft BI stack: SQL Server, SQL Azure, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, HD Insight, Streaming
Insight, SharePoint BI, PowerPivot, PowerView, Excel
•Big Data stack: MapReduce, Hadoop, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume
•ETL technologies: SSIS, Talend, Pentaho, Informatica, etc
•DBMS: Relational (SQL Server, incl. T-SQL, Scripting, etc), columnar (RedShift, Vertica), noSQL
(MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra - key-value stores, graph databases, RDF triple stores)
•Languages: R, F#, C#
•Development environments: Visual Studio
•Operating Systems: Windows Azure, Windows Server
Solution Architecture Expertise:
•Business value focused, strategic consultative selling
•Successful teamwork experience & demonstrated leadership abilities in cross-disciplinary teams
•Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
•Work experience in an Agile environment - preferably Scrum
•Ability to articulate differences between solution methods and the challenges and approaches of
integrating solutions built on different platforms
•Working knowledge with different Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman)
Analytics Domain Expertise:
•Experience in one or more of the following domains: Customer Analytics, Operational Performance
Management, Manufacturing Quality Control, Human Capital Management
•Ability to create business critical insights from large quantities of information and data using computer-
based analytical and modelling techniques and developing, implementing, and maintaining predictive
statistical models
•Relational and dimensional modeling
•BI tools and reporting software: Microstrategy, Cognos, Pentaho
•Analytical tools, languages, or libraries: SAS, SPSS, R, Mahout)
•High-scale or distributed RDBMS (PDW, SQL Azure, Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data,
Vertica)
Technical Expertise:
•Experience in a consulting delivery role or related work experience: Functional experience within an IT
environment, designed different solutions for various clients
•Built solutions for various deployment targets utilizing Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) cloud environments.
•Knowledge of cloud computing infrastructure (e.g. Amazon Web Services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and
considerations for scalable, distributed systems
•Data migration from existing data stores
•Ability to learn and apply new technologies and programming languages as required

Travel, of approximately 50%, is an integral expectation of this position as the needs of our customers
and our business demand. This position location is flexible.

If you find this opportunity to be compelling and can demonstrate your ability to excel as a Solutions
Architect in the Data Insights Center-of-Excellence, we would like to explore the possibilities with you!

A proven test strategy for data warehouses

Test accelerators and automated processes offer a cost-effective and viable alternative
to test heterogeneous and voluminous data in a data warehouse. In an interview with
SearchSoftwareQuality.com, an Infosys expert sets the context for his presentation at
STAREAST 2011. At the conference, he addressed the challenges in data warehouse
testing and reporting.

 Infosys Clearware , a tool-based data warehouse testing solution, automates

data warehouse test processes. It prevents data anomalies by detecting defects
early in the testing life cycle. Extensive reuse of test components reduces time to
market and simplifies test management

 Enterprise performance management (EPM) – Dedicated EPM centre of excellence (CoE) enables
Performance Management and Optimization based approach to BI
 Deep domain focus – All the BI engagements leverage the inherent domain focus derived from involvement in
parent company ITC Ltd’s multiple businesses
 Industry Solutions – Pre-defined Analytics solutions for common pain points serve as a strong reference base
for arriving at effective and cost-sensitive solutions
 Accelerators – ITC Infotech has readymade methodology and accelerators for the entire DWBI lifecycle from
consulting to implementation which brings industry best practices, standardization and speed into engagements.
The methodology and accelerators are quickly tailored to customer’s special requirements

Business Solutions and Accelerators

 Airline Analytics

– Amadeus Data Integration and Reporting on Reservations, Booking, Revenue Recognition using DB2,
Informatica and Cognos

 Loyalty Analytics

– Custom and Customized implementation of Loyalty Analytics on top of OBIEE for 12 subject areas ranging from
Promotions to Financials including Members, Transactions, Partners and Transactions
  Retail Category Analytics

– Specialized Category Analytics Solution with a Balanced Score Card defined for merchandiser with high end
features like Scorecard, Dashboards and "What If" analysis around assortment, revenue and promotion

 Personalize content delivery (PCD) Analytics

> – Analytics Solution on top of Siebel solution for Pharma Sales Reps. It covers features like Disconnected
Analytics around performance, detailed effectiveness (presentation and sales by geography, product, sales rep),
medical practitioners' feedback,

 Event Driven Data Warehouse for Security, Risk and Compliance

– Enterprise-wide Security Intelligence solutions to make strategic decisions using our partner product SenSage. It
converges real-time alerting, incident investigation and compliance reporting processes. This solution includes
security information and event management (SIEM), log management and SAP continuous controls monitoring, all
supported by a single data management architecture, access model and console.

Service Landscape

Implementation Methodology
Collaborative Delivery Model - CMD

 A collection of best practices from world-wide industry standard processes

 A collection of Policies, Processes, Templates, Tools, Checklists, Standards, Guidelines and Training Materials for
all related practices
 Support Flexible Tailoring and Integration with Client’s processes in consultation with the clients.
 CDM defines ITC Infotech specific process based on the scope of work executed in globally for our clients
 Collaboration helps us align the solution to client’s expectations
 CDM is the basis of process improvement campaign which involves contribution from Practitioners, Senior
managers, Quality team and Customer Feedback

Benefits of Collaborative Delivery Model