Data Warehousing provides timely access to a vast amounts of information -and gives your company a decisive advantage over its competitors. (Just imagine, for example, how much useful customer information is contained in the logs of your own website.)

Given the explosion of data that modern businesses generate, however, data warehousing is usually the fastest-growing segment of an Information Systems budget. This is particularly true for organizations involved in e-business, web-information processing, and customer profiling and stock trading.

To assure maximum cost efficiency, software development and implementation for your data warehouse needs to be carried out by a properly trained and organized team armed with the methods and experience that fit a fast-moving industry.

At KSoft we have years of experience implementing large warehouses -on the order of tens of billions of transactions per query.

That's why we're very confident of our capacity to leverage your company's data in a way that will assure you of finding your best route to success.

Our Data Warehousing Philosophy

To maximise return on investment from a data warehouse, it is essential that the warehouse complements and supports the business. Focusing on the needs of specific user communities are key to ensuring quick wins from the warehouse project.

KSoft believes in a top-down philosophy for warehouse strategy. The steps of the ideal process are as follows:

Identify business goals and strategies
Identify business processes to deliver goals
Identify analysis required to support business processes
Identify information required for analysis
Measure or estimate the benefits gained through the provision of warehouse information Measure or estimate the cost of warehouse implementation
Prioritise the implementation of applications based on cost and benefit analysis

Data Warehousing - our proposition

KSoft is an established, independent provider of data warehousing strategy development, design, implementation and troubleshooting services.

• Strategy development and review - We assist clients with the development of data warehousing and decision support strategy taking into account the strategic and tactical objectives of the business, the needs of individual business units and the possibilities for data acquisition. We also provide technology strategy services aimed at identifying new business opportunities that will be enabled by emerging technologies.
  
• Architecture design - We design logical and physical architectures for decision support environments based around achieving a consistent, corporate information repository. Component selection. We assist clients to select the server platform components, middleware and client tools most appropriate to their requirements and existing infrastructure.
  
• Troubleshooting - After several years of data warehouse operation many of the original goals will have been achieved. However, it is often the case that organizational, cultural, process or technical barriers prevent the realization of all key objectives. Our independence and experience enable us to provide specialist services to facilitate the breaking down of such barriers.

Data Warehousing Services

We offer the data warehousing services for:

Legacy data analysis and cleansing
ODS, enterprise and dimensional modeling
Database design, optimization and implementation
Data mapping and migration strategies and implementation using ETL tools
OLAP query designs, optimization and implementation
Data flow process development
Data Modeling
Data Access Design
Physical Data Warehousing Design
Data Extraction- Transformation- Loading- Design
Subject Based Model Star Schema
Integration with existing information systems
Scalability Analysis.