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Balanced Business Intelligence: A Capability Approach to BI Program Alignment
This White Paper explores a method for assessing and planning for a well balanced
business intelligence program that focuses on your organization’s distinctive culture.
From dynamic to disciplined, it takes into consideration the unique circumstances
of the organization’s life cycle, delivery and ability of business intelligence from
a capability perspective rather than a maturity perspective. The balance of both
efficiency and effectiveness is explored to enable a well rounded intelligence
program in any organization.
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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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21 Feb 2011
CIBER Promotes Business of Healthcare Organizations;
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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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Leading Drilling & Blasting Company
Modern Field Data Collection For Tangible Business Results
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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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Santa Clara County Social Services Agency
CIBER Implements Business Intelligence Solution for Santa Clara County Social Services Agency
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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
Business Architecture 101 : Value Streams vs. Value Chains
posted: 11 October 2011 by Allan Shub
Business Architecture 101
posted: 27 September 2011 by Allan Shub
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Master Data Management
Master data, the critical reference data of an enterprise, is an elusive and difficult beast, resisting domestication by growing and changing constantly throughout the lifecycle of an enterprise. Businesses eternally struggle to keep customer databases, product catalogs, vendor rosters, and the like consistent, up to date, and accurate while they grow, acquire, merge, and retool to meet the needs of their clients and stay competitive in the market. Divisional silos, departmental “spreadmarts”, and application incompatibilities contribute to the tangled web of process and technical challenges obstructing the primary goal of making master data work for business.
Information at the Heart of Business
Master Data comprises the critical reference data of an enterprise, their customers, vendors, products, services, employees, etc. Master Data Management (MDM) is the discipline of making these critical information assets work effectively for the business with the policies and infrastructure to support the capture, integration and shared used of accurate, timely, consistent and complete master data.
Moving Forward with a Master Data Management Initiative
CIBERcan help you assess your organization’s readiness for a MDM initiative to increase your efficiency.
DISCOVERY: MDM Readiness and Maturity Assessment - Short-term site visit to obtain a “snapshot” of your current Master Data Management position. This initial assessment measures your business from 12 relevant perspectives and allows the CIBER team to craft a strategic roadmap for MDM implementation that is both comprehensive and pragmatic.
ASSESSMENT/ROADMAP: More comprehensive analysis of your organization, enterprise architecture, operations and management practices as related to the use and need for Master Data. A plan is established for activities and resources that will result in a healthy steady state Master Data Management initiative.
IMPLEMENTATION: CIBER experts take the results of the roadmap and work with you to design, build, and launch your Master Data Management initiative.
SUPPORT: CIBER works with you to ensure that your Master Data Management initiative delivers value as expected, so team members can sustain high quality master data for the long term.
An MDM platform may be positioned to service both the operational and analytical needs of a business. Operationally, MDM works to synchronize master data in operational systems and achieve an acceptable level of data quality in those systems. Analytically, MDM can support business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives by providing consistent and trusted dimensions of analysis while improving quality and enriching master data providing more meaningful and more actionable information.
MDM at Work
MDM, like many IT initiatives, is critically dependent on strong business sponsorship and a happy marriage of people and business processes during the technical implementation.
Technically, MDM means systems share critical master data in a meaningful and timely way. An MDM hub may be deployed to store and service a variety of requests for master data creation and updates. A “System of Reference” hub views master data as continuously updated reference data. This architecture aggregates master data in a central repository that acts as a reference across the enterprise while leaving control of the data in the hands of the operational systems. Alternately, a “System of Record” MDM hub assumes record-keeping responsibilities for master data, becoming the point of entry, custodian, and the authoritative reference for master data.
Business processes complete the organization’s MDM capabilities by providing the governing process for the creation, maintenance, and use of master data. They define which systems are authoritative and what processes must be implemented and followed during the lifecycle of master data entities. These processes also define how master data quality is measured and improved.
CIBER Brings Expertise
CIBER has deep expertise in areas of MDM Program management, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) development, Information Governance and solutions development and deployment that cover the industry’s leading MDM platforms, tools and best practices.
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