Enterprise Data Warehouse Solutions

VTL will help you deploy it to unleash the power of this technology to give your users a fast and easy way to analyze your data. Makes the most of the entire SQL Server product suite to provide multi-tiered reporting and analysis solutions. By using the SQL Server product suite, our solutions are easier to manage and maintain. Reporting Services solutions maximize the native feature set to provide insightful and interactive decision support solutions. Analysis Services and OLAP cubes go further to add comparative and aggregation capabilities with drill down capabilities to accelerate understanding for better decisions.

VTL uses SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to deliver enterprise, Web-enabled reporting functionality so the customer can consume reports that draw content from a variety of data sources, publish reports in various formats, and centrally manage security and subscriptions.

VTL can design and conduct interviews to identify the needs of system users. These needs can be summarized, describing each data set in the organization along with the creation, maintenance, access, and analysis activities for each user group in the organization. Through a thorough analysis of each group's needs, detailed requirements and design specifications are documented to ensure the system supports your business objectives.

It is critical to the success of the warehouse to design the most effective data aggregation strategy and data model. This will not only provide dimensional flexibility and superior performance, but will allow for future data growth and dimensional expansion. An efficient, cost-effective solution is designed to meet your data warehousing needs using industry best practices, proven methodologies, and a compilation of recommended database, extraction, and data modeling tools and technologies.





VTL consultants are experienced in developing data cleansing and conversion methodologies that assist clients in the transfer of accurate data from any source into their data warehouse. VTL can also assist with integrating data from proprietary and standard formats as well as commercially available data sets. We have experience and relationships with leading extraction and translation tool vendors, which enable the implementation of a rapid and repeatable data cleansing and conversion process.

VTL can provide you with a working model of your actual data that can then be manipulated, reported, and tested in your environment. Through production of prototypes for data, system architecture, and dimensional analysis, VTL can help you at any step in the process.

A flexible report generation interface provides business analysts and executives with the ability to perform detailed analysis of custom reports from their desktop via Web browsers, existing applications, or custom reporting software. VTL can assist in the design and creation of reporting structures and systems.

The Database and The Application Platform Decision
 

• To be successful in a competitive market place, it is important for Avanade to differentiate its services form services of competitors.  To do so it needs:
• A well integrated application platform spanning all layers of the Business Intelligence stack including the platform itself, end-user tools, and business performance management
• The ability to provide its services at a competitive price. “To remain competitive, we need to be able to provide superior Business Intelligence solutions at a fraction of our competitors cost”
• Good integration with tools that end-user are familiar with such as the Microsoft office suite. “The Business Intelligence decision within the enterprise is shifting to the end-user, the office worker. And most end-users are familiar with Microsoft Office which is part of the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack

In this respect the SQL Server and the Microsoft application platform fit well with VTL’s strategic platform requirements. “SQL Server is the foundation of almost every Business Intelligence project at VTL Consulting. It’s a great platform for our clients”.

VTL consultants are experienced in the implementation of data warehouse architecture and related databases. The integrity and implementation rules governing the consistency between information in the data warehouse and the operational applications are identified and initiated, which creates a smooth and effective transition from test to production.

VTL can provide you with database specialists that excel in database maintenance and administration, which will improve data integrity and ensure the long-term success and support of your data warehouse.       

Depending on your reporting needs, we will help you deploy the best reporting and consolidation tools, including Microsoft Enterprise Reporting, Excel-based report, ProClarity and Microsoft Reporting Services.  Report builder is a new addition to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to enable power users to build and publish ad-hoc reports.

VTL is dedicated to helping organizations successfully develop, implement, and maintain these leading data warehouse solutions. Providing experienced project teams and leveraging partnerships with industry leaders, VTL quickly and effectively helps you take full advantage of data warehouse solutions across virtually every key industry.

Evangelizing the Vision and Value Proposition:

VTL can capitalize on the fact that customers are familiar with and trust Microsoft’s application infrastructure. At the same time the platform presents a unique, well integrated, rich Business Intelligence offering with high user acceptance through deep integration into the Office System.

VTL Consulting’s commitment to the Microsoft platform has provided ample opportunity to pursue business. Business Intelligence related revenue has grown to represent over 70% of VTL Consulting’s revenue and is growing fast as represented by over 100 Business Intelligence implementations currently in the pipeline.

Microsoft products used with Business Intelligence Implementations:

• Business Scorecard Manager
• Microsoft Office
• Office SharePoint Server 2007
• PerformancePoint Server
• ProClarity
• SQL Server 2005
• Visual Studio.net
• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

Microsoft technologies used:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0
• SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
• SQL Server 2005 Data Transformation Services
• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
• SQL Server 2005 Management Tools
• SQL Server 2005 Replication Services
• SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services