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We assist our clients to reduce the cost of doing business, improve operational efficiency, maintain business reputation and comply with regulatory compliance directives.

How do we do this ? – by assisting you to improve the quality of data delivered to your business users, partners and customers.

Business Performance Measurement / Business Intelligence
It is our firm belief that what gets measured gets done.

We offer the following solutions :

  • Collaborate in defining a Balanced Scorecard of KPIs.
  • Deliver soultions for your strategic, tactical and operational Business Intelligence & Reporting needs.
  • Minimise TCO using low cost Open Source software from market leader Pentaho.
  • Maximise ROI using experienced consultants.
  • Deliver business benefits in a timely manner (two week cycles) using Agile development method.

Data Warehousing

We architect, design, implement and test Data Warehousing solutions.  Our approach is to assess your needs then tailor one of the industry acknowledged best practices to meet your requirements. Organisational factors play a major role in  determining whether we recommend Inmon’s Corporate Information Factor approach or Kimball’s Conforming Dimensions approach.

Our approach focuses on structuring data to support a 360o view of the Customer taking into account Marketing, Finance, Product Engineering and Customer Services perspectives.

We offer the following as part of our standard service :

  • Build a case for funding.
  • Tailor a methodology to your needs.
  • Leverage industry best practice from Kimball or Innmon as appropriate.
  • Provide expertise in your industry.
  • Highly experienced consultants.
  • Project managers with a track record of delivery.
  • Collaborate with existing Meta Data Strategy or help develop the strategy.
  • Implement technologies and processes to provide foundation for improving data quality.
  • Knowledge Transfer to enable your employees maintain and extend the solution.

Data Integration and Migration

Business spend £billions migrating data between applications. IT departments append data migration to larger projects and devote their time and energy to package selection and new technologies – the exciting, sexy, strategic elements of the business.At HBSL data is our business. We help our clients to avoid the “Load and Explode” syndrome – ill prepared source system analysis forced into target environment with minimal testing that denotates when the target application is used outside the three or four main business scenarios.We will
  • Define the project scope.
  • Engage and collaborate with  the right people – business sponsors, business users and technical guardians.
  • Fully understand data sources prior to finalising migration strategy and specifying implementation.
  • Minimise the amount of data to be migrated.
  • Reduce risk by auditing source systems prior to creating mappings.
  • Create a single repository for all analysis regardless of source system.
  • Utilise a comprehensive testing strategy.