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Full Life-Cycle Development & Implementation for Business Intelligence,
Data Warehousing, and Corporate Performance Management
Any data warehouse project can seem overwhelming at the beginning, but
Athena IT Solutions will partner with you for your entire project, from
start to finish. Our consultants have been involved in dozens of data
warehousing and business intelligence projects over the last 15 years.
We are seasoned experts in all phases of the development life cycle, including:
- Project planning, organization and management
- Working with the business to gather business
requirements, create data models based on these requirements and designing
BI functionality to meet these needs
- Designing and implementing DW and BI architecture
- Designing data models and databases to
implement these models
- Integrating data from other applications
such as CRM, SCM, ERP, and Web
- Selection and use of Extract, Transform
& Load (ETL) tools to populate the necessary databases
- Selection and use of Business Intelligence
(BI) & On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools to provide the
necessary business functionality
The key steps of our work:
| Project scope & initial analysis
- Business & IT Requirements
- Priorities
- Project plan
- Resource plan
Detailed design
- Logical data models
- Extract, transform and load (ETL)
- Reporting & analytical functionality
Development
- Infrastructure setup
- Physical databases
- Extract, transform and load (ETL)
- Reporting and analytical functionality
Testing
- Unit
- Integration
- Acceptance
Implementation
- Operations startup
- Production roll-out
- Transition
- Closure
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following activites take place throughout all phases of the
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- Project management
- Status and communication
- Quality control
- Scope and change management
- Knowledge transfer
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