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Properly implemented EII provides visibility of the enterprises information so leaders know what information is available for decision making. Good EII enforces common enterprise standards of quality, governance and compliance. Good EII provides controls for data as it is used throughout the enterprise. Good EII makes the connections between the information of different enterprise business units, allowing company group to recognize when they are operating with the same entities such as customers, vendors, products and parts.

Master Data Management
A key aspect of Enterprise Information Integration is Master Data Management, the management of key datasets throughout its lifecycle of creation/import, processing, usage and sun setting. Sound decisions and successful businesses begin with good data. Data is your company’s most valuable asset, providing the basis for critical and everyday business decisions. Access to quality data is imperative to operate confidently in a high-performance environment.

Can you track the source of your data field by field? Are you confident that the logic applied to your data by your programmers is as expected by your business users? Do you understand the quality of your data so you judge the accuracy of your decisions? Are datasets and/or individual records retired and archived in a way that is consistent with the goals of your business? Our Master Data Management services help our clients ensure that their data is available, accurate, and secure across their enterprise – as well as with their business partners. This has helped them make better management decisions, reduce risks and enhances productivity and operational efficiency.

Metadata Management
Metadata management from Compact Solutions (i.e., “data about data;” including information about data sources, how it was derived, business rules and access authorizations) is a valuable tool in integrating data across the enterprise. It is necessary to produce accurate and timely information across datasets that require contextual interpretation – such as data from different business units or different countries. Compact metadata solutions ensure that your enterprise uses a single, cohesive definition of data, locations, content and business rules that is used by all your technology and solutions. This goes a long way to minimize the costs associated with managing multiple metadata resources and simplifies deployment, administration and use. Metadata is a key component to service oriented enterprise interfaces, proving the late-binding, loose data coupling capabilities needed for SOA.

Effective metadata will provide you:

• Additional flexibility in integrating new data sources into you enterprise data models from activities such as new product launches or acquisitions
• Lower cost of ownership and simplified systems support through reduced hard-coding of business logic
• Improved and consistent data integrity by defining data relationships through metadata

Data Warehousing Design & Development
Data warehouses are at the heart of the strategic reporting systems used to help manage and control your business. They can also serve as clearing houses for data that is used by many aspects of the enterprise. The function of the data warehouse is to consolidate and reconcile information from across disparate business units and IT systems and provide a context for reporting on and analyzing corporate performance management, profitability, consolidated financials and compliance. As strategic as they are, enterprise data warehousing projects are complex. Design and development demand expertise and a best practice approach. At Compact Solutions, we follow a best practices approach that encompasses all the key elements of data warehousing including:

• Business visions and business cases for the development of data warehouses
• Business process and user needs gathering to support data warehousing
• Data integration and reconciliation
• Data quality and master data management (MDM)
• Iterative delivery
• Data warehouse design including innovative designs around hybrid file system/database data warehouses
• Data warehouse performance
• Deployment and change management

Our skill in every aspect of data warehouse infrastructure is second to none. These skills include data architecture, data warehouse assessments, data warehouse design, ETL design and development, metadata repositories, data warehouse performance optimization, and platform migration. We also help clients maintain and enhance their existing data warehouse solutions.

Maintenance & Enhancement
Your information integration environment is stable, efficient and performing well. Data flows easily between enterprise applications and data warehouses. The business feels confident in the quality of the information that they use on a daily basis. Data warehouse queries that used to take days or weeks are now done in hours. Your end-users are happy. This is not the time to become complacent -- you need to proactive. Compact Solutions can help you be proactive and incorporate enhancements into your data environment to prepare for new business challenges, increase efficiency, accuracy, and predictability.

Here are some questions you should consider:

  What if you could slash those hour-long query response times to minutes?
  What if you could continue to add data without incurring big new storage costs?
  Have you thought about accommodating orders of magnitude of new users?

Our onshore and offshore development centers can help you make these ideas a reality. And we can help you achieve your objectives using existing technology and strategies.

Another reason to work with Compact to maintain and enhance your data environment: Be smart about your investment -- take a risk management approach to your information environment. Ongoing and effective Maintenance and Enhancement are crucial to ensuring consistent, accurate and timely information. When you team with Compact Solutions, we can help you not only in designing and implementing high performance information solutions, but also maintain and enhance them utilizing our development centers in both the U.S. and Europe.