Business Intelligence & Performance Management

As a Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI&DW) specialist, Sumeru Consulting provides integrated strategy and technology implementation services, enabling clients to leverage their most invaluable corporate asset - enterprise information.

Sumeru Consulting presents 'end-to-end' BI&DW deliverables, encompassing on-site business & technical needs assessment, development & integration services, and partial or total outsourcing of application implementation and maintenance.

With over 100 consultants and multiple customers in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, the Sumeru Consulting team represents a pool of diverse technology skill sets including data acquisition, data modeling, meta data repository, data management, data mining and OLAP.

Approaching business intelligence from a mature management consulting perspective, Sumeru Consulting delivers reliable, robust, scalable, secure and extensible BI&DW solutions within the shortest possible time.

The company delivers innovative business strategies by leveraging the integration of emerging or existing technologies. It has developed a methodology, which provides a framework for each stage of a client engagement, from helping the client conceive its strategy, to architecting, engineering and extending its information.

Sumeru’s Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing consultants can help create a data warehouse to extract and cleanse data, and then create the analytics necessary to deliver information that gives a real advantage over competition.

Sumeru Consulting can create a custom solution to fit specific needs, or offer a pre-defined solution to help accelerate time-to-solution. Sumeru Consulting believes that its integrated methodology allows the company to deliver reliable, robust, scalable, secure and extensible BI solutions in rapid time frames by:

• Shortening the development and delivery cycle
• Minimizing risk while maximizing ROI
• Planning deployments with detailed road maps
• Starting small with a pilot and scaling upward

Sumeru Consulting offers complete ‘end-to-end’ data warehousing and business intelligence services, including on-site business / technical needs assessment, development and integration services and partial or total outsourcing of application implementation and maintenance.

Sumeru Consulting enables clients to build their data warehouse in the most scalable, intelligent environment possible, ensuring their efforts are readily adaptable to platform changes, database additions and changing business requirements.

Business Intelligence is progressively becoming a core focus in the business strategy of many organizations often providing the vital information needed for how a company can compete in the global market place.

Sumeru Consulting's track record offers proven methods for maximizing performance while minimizing costs.

Services

• Complete analysis of functional needs
• Data mart and data warehouse design, using data modeling techniques
• Data warehouse creation at multiple sites from multiple servers
• Web-enabling of data warehouses and complimentary reporting OLAP tool implementations on the web
• Single sign on, using LDAP and web servers
• Expertise with databases such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix and Teradata
• Writing ad hoc queries and reports
• Integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Datatex etc

Integration with e-Commerce to build near-real-time data warehouse access

Integration with customer relationship management (CRM) tools such as Siebel, Clarify and Oracle CRM

Key Advantages

• Sumeru Consulting has expertise in Microsoft SQL Server DTS and Analysis Services with an Excel front-end, Oracle and ETL/reporting tools from various BI vendors, including Business Objects and Cognos.
• The company has worked extensively with other types of analyses tools, including data mining, planning and visualization products, and can provide these services to meet customers' needs.
• Sumeru Consulting has vast experience in integration enabling consolidation of information from legacy and transactional systems to provide a 'complete picture' of an organization.
• Web-enabling of data warehouses and complimentary reporting OLAP tool implementations on the web
• Considerable involvement in data warehouse design, development, implementation and support has exposed Sumeru Consulting to the practicalities and 'real world' issues of such projects.
• Sumeru Consulting has skilled practitioners in complementary areas like development and integration into ERP and CRM systems, Enterprise Content Management, and Web development which allows it to extend the scope of BI projects to meet client needs.

Offerings

• Project management to manage BI projects assessing BI requirements
• Designing BI architecture conforming to existing infrastructure
• Modeling BI data requirements in the most appropriate format
• Creating the physical BI structures required and implementing BI metadata management solutions
• Selecting the most appropriate BI tools for the project developing ETL and BI integration processes
• Working with end users on BI reporting and analyses
• Building BI applications that meet specific needs
• Instituting BI quality and reconciliation procedures. Setting up ongoing BI support structure recommending future enhancements for BI projects

Benefits

• Helps management in making decisions on the pricing and the competitive positioning Improves information flow within the organization
• Improves interaction with customers
• Generates comprehensive MIS reports