Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence (DW/BI) Services

GRT has assisted many companies in assessing Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence strategy and has found that many DW/BI implementations have been deployed from a tactical perspective. From a BI perspective, basic operational data is often provided to employees involved in making local or organizational business decisions. However, this approach often does not lend itself to reporting on company-wide data, and as a result, offers only a myopic view of enterprise information.

GRT’s assessments have also found that many IT infrastructures are plagued by the pitfalls of tactical, one-off implementation of new technology (including web and application servers, databases, servers, development tools, and enterprise and legacy application systems.) The result is a patchwork of incompatible technologies. These disparate systems are costly to administer, difficult to maintain, and certainly do not provide maximum business value.

GRT can assist you in the development, design and implementation of a DW/BI strategy that ensures a common framework extends across the enterprise.

Through a common framework and architecture users will be able to:

Support decision making in real time Monitor business activities based on exceptions and thresholds Identify performance issues Provide macro and drill down views of customer, supplier, and partner information Enable business partners and customers to access critical information to integrate business process decision-making Improve responsiveness to events and activities that impact the business Enable larger numbers of business users to be involved with a business process Drive down shadow IT organizational costs associated with lack of rationalized enterprise analytic infrastructure and proliferation or unarchitected BI solutions

GRT will also ensure that the DW/BI environment can be supported entirely by your IT organization (or, if desired, outsourced to our professionals to manage and maintain on a 24/7 basis).

To find more information about GRT's DW methodology, please refer to the DW Development Approach page or contact us