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Lean Principles and IT Demand Management
IT spending level is typically based on historical or competitive benchmark
levels. Given the current global economic climate many IT organizations
face frozen budgets and cost-cutting efforts and this puts a squeeze
on many innovative initiatives in the backlog. The only way for folks to
get more done for less will be to plan and prioritize the IT portfolio
based on strategic fit, business value, risk, and complexity.
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Ensuring & Maintaining Data Quality: Data Quality for Data in Motion & Data at Rest
Businesses that apply mature Information Technology processes understand “Data Quality as
the foundation of Business Intelligence”, and therefore are aware of data quality problems. At
the same time, there is a common misconception that data quality is expensive and is not
required through early maturity stages. However, this has the opposite effect of accumulating
bad data in the operational data stores and data warehouses, which then requires a huge effort
to fix. This whitepaper, useful for data stewards, enterprise architects, project managers, and
IT executives, examines how the data quality problems arise even in the most controlled
environments and the measures to be taken to ensure and maintain data quality in operational
and data warehousing systems.
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Master Data Management: Managing Data as an Asset
With an increase in the pace of business, organizations have already built up Business
Intelligence systems to aid efficient decision-making. Globalization and mergers and acquisitions
have served as catalysts for organizations to realize the criticality of data and data integration.
With this background, many organizations have begun to treat data as one of their key assets.
This white paper explains how core business entities known as master data can be considered
organizational assets and how to manage these entities holistically.
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The What’s and How’s of ETL Architecture
This paper is basically a high level description of a highly technical subject -
Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Architecture. It is written for IT management and professionals to address and explain an area which often has been overlooked.
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Organizational Alignment: Empowering The Business
The term Organizational Alignment brings to mind many different interpretations
when spoken of in the context of an Information Technology (IT) organization.
When applied to an organization as a whole, it addresses consistency of purpose
and activity throughout the organization as a means to achieve organizational
objectives. A similar context is true with respect to an IT organization except
that an IT organization typically supports multiple parts of the organization, each
of which each have their own strategies woven into a cohesive organizational
strategy. When Organizational Alignment principles are applied within IT
disciplines, resources create and deliver sustainable business value enabling
business units to achieve their objectives.
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Business Intelligence Best Practices: Transforming Data into Information
The introduction of information technology systems decades ago helped organizations worldwide benefit from more efficient operations and greater productivity. Over the
years, companies have acquired volumes of data in these applications, but much of this data is trapped in multiple, disparate systems which cannot easily communicate. As a result, firms must expend considerable effort to tap into the full potential of these data assets to strategically maneuver the business in a rapidly changing and competitive marketplace. The latest evolution in IT is “business intelligence,” which promises to help businesses better tap into and leverage their data assets. But what, exactly, is BI? How can it help? How is it implemented? And what can it do for your company? Essentially a primer on BI, this paper describes BI, how it can help you, and best practices to consider when launching or refining a business intelligence initiative.
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Enterprise Information Management in the Real World: Strategies for Success
Enterprise Information Management—or EIM—encompasses several important contemporary business concepts: Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Warehousing …
Transforming Legacy Applications To .NET Through Automated Migration
Access this CIBER and ArtinSoft webinar replay to learn about the alternatives available for modernizing or transforming your legacy applications, with a focus on lower cost, low-risk software migration options.
Make Your Data Shine: Protect Your Company’s Image by Maintaining Good Quality Data
This article by Joyce Norris-Montanari, appeared in Teradata Magazine in September 2008
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A Bifocal
Strategy for Data Quality
This article, by CIBER’s Ashu Bhatia first appeared on TDAN.com in September 2008
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06 Oct 2009
CIBER Adds to SAP Partner Credentials By Providng SAP® BusinessObjects™ Solutions
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01 Jul 2009
CIBER Wins Contract With Ohio University For New Student Information System
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28 Jan 2008
Joyce Norris-Montanari Joins CIBER as Principle Architect Of Global Enterprise Integration Practice
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04 Dec 2006
CIBER and Microsoft to Host Ohio Seminar on Service-Oriented Architecture
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08 May 2006
CIBER to Host Kansas City Seminar on Service-Oriented Architecture
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CIBER has completed the redesign and redevelopment of the first of three hospital patient flow and capacity management applications for Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies.
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Using their body of datawarehousing best practices as an architectural framework, CIBER helped the The Principal Financial Group understand the primary components of a datawarehouse and how best to structure based on the information collected through interviews.
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American Red Cross
CIBER's Implements Distributed Client-Server Technology to ARC Sites Nationwide
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International Theme Park
CIBER Helps Architect State-of-the-Art CRM Infrastructure for an International Theme Park
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Major For-Profit Health Care Organization
CIBER Completes a Customized IT Assessment
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Major Japanese Auto Manufacturer
CIBER Build New Parts Recovery Portal Application
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
CIBER’s Datawarehouse Supports Enhanced Decisions And Performance For Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
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Principal Financial
CIBER Selected by Principal Financial for Datawarehousing Assessment
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San Francisco International Airport
CIBER Helps San Francisco International Airport Attain Year-2000 Compliance, Meet Staffing and IT Needs
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Sports Association
CIBER’s Network & Internet Services Boost National Sports Association’s Performance
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State of Colorado
CIBER Engaged to Assist the State of Colorado in Planning for Statewide IT Transformation and Consolidation
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“Ohio University is partnering with CIBER to significantly change how technology aids in the delivery of services to students and faculty. CIBER’s expertise with complex Higher Education projects made them well equipped to assist us with this extensive transformation.”
Brice Bible — Chief Information Officer , Ohio University
“CDC Alerting Service provides an enterprise alerting service infrastructure that CDC Centers, Institutes, and Offices (CIOs) can securely integrate with their disparate technologies. CDCAS provides a truly reusable component framework that allows CDC to easily expand communication capabilities with little or no impact to the CIOs while reducing the cost of ownership for CDC and our Public Health Information Network (PHIN) partners. The CIBER team has expertly created CDCAS to meet both current and future needs with a highly flexible architecture and component model.”
Robb Chapman — Program Manager, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“CIBER impressed us with their understanding of local government challenges and concerns. Not only does the CIBER team bring to the table significant technological expertise, but a solid understanding of local government processes and issues as well.”
Catherine Maras O’Leary — Chief Information Officer, Cook County, Ill
“The department recognizes that it doesn’t have the skills or expertise to create the enterprise architecture framework. We hired CIBER to do the work and transfer the knowledge to our employees by training and mentoring us. CIBER will act as a ‘bridge’ until we develop sufficient competencies within our own staff.”
Bill Shaw — Manager, Enterprise Architecture Group, Idaho Transportation Department
“We wanted an IT services company that would provide the most tangible value to address our critical AD migration program. CIBER stood out as offering the best value to the government.”
Chuck McCallar — Chief Technology Officer, Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield
Enterprise Integration & IT Strategy blog
Some Useful Views of Metadata
posted: 14 June 2010 by Tom Finneran
IT Strategy – bringing it all together
posted: 21 May 2010 by Ashu Bhatia
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For more information about our Business Intelligence services & solutions, please contact:
bbird@ciber.com
Bonnie Bird
Manager, Marketing
Business Intelligence
In an increasingly competitive and fast-moving marketplace, executives must make effective strategic business decisions to remain competitive. The challenge has become to organize information to support rapid analysis, efficient adaptation to change and strong decision making capabilities.
Many organizations already have much of the data they need to achieve these goals, but the data is often siloed in multiple, disparate systems that do not easily share data, or the data is inconsistent, inaccurate, or out-of-date.
Business Intelligence has become an integral need for any organization that wants to remain competitive in the market place and proactive in their decision making and performance monitoring. A Business Intelligence system includes several functions such as OLAP (Online Analytical Processing), Data Mining, Text Mining, Web Mining, Predictive Analytics, and Alerting & Notification. These functions allow organizations to gather, filter, dissect and learn from historical data to make fact based decisions.
Business Intelligence Transforms Data
Several components come together to form a holistic Business Intelligence system that might include an Enterprise Data Warehouse, Subject Area specific Data Mart(s), Operational Data Store (ODS), Metadata repository, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), Data Cubes, Data Quality functions and Web Portals.
CIBER offers discovery, assessment, full development and implementation, and training services in these specific Business Intelligence areas including:
- Data Warehouse and Data Mart design, development and full implementation
- Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes
- Report Design, Development and Delivery
- Dashboard and Balanced Scorecards Design, Development and Delivery
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Data Visualization
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Quality
- BI Performance Optimization
- BI System Architecture
- BI/DW/ETL Tool selection
- Open source and Mobile BI
Effective and Timely Decisions
Business Intelligence allows the discovery of hidden decision-relevant aspects in corporate data buried in databases used by departmentally and functionally dedicated systems. The backbone of a Business Intelligence system is a strong data architecture that supports the collection of data from disparate heterogeneous and homogeneous, structured and unstructured data. In addition, it offers cleansing and transformation capabilities to massage the data based on business needs and requirements.
A Business Intelligence initiative can help your organization create infrastructure to transform raw data into information you can use to monitor the marketplace and measure company performance.
A Business Intelligence initiative often takes the shape of just-in-time reporting, web-based portals, or executive dashboards, which provide secure access for authorized individuals to view a wealth of information both visually and according to function.
The people and processes that govern your data are critical ingredients for making the right decisions. Data quality and stewardship combined with the right governance model for your organization will bring the right people and processes together to ensure you are making the best decisions possible based on timely and accurate information.
Business-Driven IT
Business Intelligence is not a product that can be installed. Instead, it’s a process of gathering, using, and storing data to promote a more informed way of doing business. CIBER can assist in your business intelligence initiative, whether you’re just getting started or have a mature process in place that only needs refining.
CIBERcan help you assess your organization’s readiness for a business intelligence initiative to increase your competitive position. We offer these services:
- DISCOVERY: Short-term site visit to obtain a “snapshot” of your current IT position
- ASSESSMENT/ROADMAP: Longer-term engagement involving interviews with key IT and business stakeholders, documentation review, and joint application development sessions to identify tactical and strategic business requirements.
- DEVELOPMENT: The assessment results are reviewed and drive the initiative through our proven development and implementation methodology
- SUPPORT: Local experts maintain a strong relationship with you, providing knowledge transfer and support
We provide technical, business, and industry expertise, but remain technology-agnostic. At the same time, we maintain strong partnerships with leading technology companies, such as SAP, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Lawson, so we are current on their technological developments and have colleagues to team with for successful implementations.
CIBER Brings Expertise
CIBER utilizes a proven approach to enterprise information management implementations that produce highly scalable and repeatable solutions. We overcome risks and hurdles with targeted planning, unique solutions, and highly skilled and respected resources.
CIBER is included in the niche quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services, North America, 2009 (published 12/10/2009).
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