Data Warehouse design & implementation

Before proceeding to the development of performance management and Business Intelligence solutions proper, Forcea creates an integrated Data Warehousing environment using unique dimensions.

• The upgradeable nature of this environment immediately offers the option of making adjustments, to ensure that the information provided always corresponds with requirements. On this basis, the Business Intelligence environment can be implemented in record time.
• The architecture of the Data Warehouse is made flexible in such a way as to ensure the collection of decision-making information from various resources. It is also modular, thanks to a reusable underlying metadata layer based on unique dimensions. This architecture offers a flexible dimensional framework, permitting reporting and analysis at all levels of the division and that can be extended into a solution on a whole-organisation scale.

Forcea consultants master the following processes:

• Strategic definition, design of the Data Warehousing environment and determination of the dimensions
• Implementation of Data Warehousing solutions enabling the extraction, transformation and loading of data derived from operational files in Data Warehouses
• Development of fine-tuned solutions for
  • Business Intelligence, Reporting & analysis
  • Scorecarding and creation of operating reports
  • Planning, budgeting and simulation

A Data Warehouse reflects all the organisation’s processes. Forcea’s Data Warehousing approach is based on five fundamental processes: