DATA Management
Your company's enterprise data management depends on an integrated data architecture that facilitates the retrieval, analysis and manipulation of data across all your functions, business units, channels and applications.
VACS Data Management Services provide innovative and enterprise solutions that empower your company with the information you need for better decision making and to power your business performance.
Our skills include data acquisition, data integration, data quality, master data management, data migration, data modeling and data warehouse design, construction and maintenance. Through our proven methodologies and industry-leading tools, our Data Management solutions are aligned along three service offerings: Data Quality, Data Migration and Data Warehousing. Using innovative approaches for each service transforms your disparate data into actionable information. By partnering with leading technology vendors and ensuring that our consultants have acquired deep knowledge of their tools, we ensure that the solutions we deliver will evolve and scale gracefully.
1.1 Data Quality
Data integration without data quality produces a repository of unreliable information. Vacs Data Quality services takes a proactive approach and addresses data quality before data warehouses are built, thereby ensuring that decision-makers have access to reliable information.
Vacs Data Quality Methodology (TDQM) addresses data quality at the source so when merged with other data, consistency and compatibility issues are easier to fix. TDQM provides an up-front, comprehensive profile of the internal and external data that supports your business needs. In addition, Vacs' experienced consultants can implement data quality tools that facilitate merging and cleansing of disparate data to allow a robust data quality process.
This methodology provides a continuous and closed loop data quality feedback that assesses data through six dimensions - Accuracy, Completeness, Precision, Consistency, Timeliness and Accessibility.
1.1 Data Migration
Over 80 percent of data migrations either fail entirely or overrun their planned budgets and timelines, according to Standish Group. Since data migration is almost always in support of a much larger IT project, such as a new ERP implementation or upgrade, a legacy system retirement or the integration of the systems of an acquired company, any problems with migrating data adds risk to the larger IT project. The project typically ends up significantly over budget and late and is frequently regarded as a failure by top management.
Besides, migration is not just about moving the data; it's about making the data work inside the target. Too often, migration is viewed as a one-time, one-way, simple data movement exercise and falls off the sight of the project manager. Approaching migration as a challenging, potentially risky endeavor that requires focused attention, proper planning, a unified toolset, and most importantly, the proper methodology is the way to not only beat the statistics but also to ensure success of the overall project.
To address data migration projects, Vacs has developed an iterative data migration methodology. The methodology starts with a readiness assessment, to determine current state and migration needs before embarking on a full-fledged data migration project. The results of the assessment feed into a strategy and planning phase. Once the data migration strategy is decided upon and an appropriate project plan developed, the project iterates through the four stages of analysis, design, migration, and validation with agility and using a unified toolset. This approach ensures risk mitigation while contributing to the desired data migration into the target environment.
1.3 Data Warehousing
A business-oriented and technologically-sophisticated data warehouse can provide your company with the right information at the right time for operational, tactical and strategic decision-making. Vacs Data Warehousing Services focuses on building data stores using varied architectures depending on the specific needs of our clients. Whether your need is operational reporting or historical analyses, Vacs can create the right data architecture to serve those needs. Our data warehouse solutions are designed with scalability, adaptability, usability and maintainability in perspective.
Our team uses Vacs' Rapid Implementation Methodology (TRIMtm) to ensure that business requirements are uncovered, a proper architecture is created, and the development and implementation of the data warehouse is driven to completion on time and within budget. Key features of the methodology are that it takes a business-driven approach, creates a strategy and roadmap, iterates through successive phases to deliver business value every 90-120 days while building upon previous iterations, and provides knowledge transfer throughout the process.
