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Full Life-Cycle Development & Implementation for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Corporate Performance Management

Any data warehouse project can seem overwhelming at the beginning, but Athena IT Solutions will partner with you for your entire project, from start to finish. Our consultants have been involved in dozens of data warehousing and business intelligence projects over the last 15 years. We are seasoned experts in all phases of the development life cycle, including:

Project planning, organization and management
Working with the business to gather business requirements, create data models based on these requirements and designing BI functionality to meet these needs
Designing and implementing DW and BI architecture
Designing data models and databases to implement these models
Integrating data from other applications such as CRM, SCM, ERP, and Web
Selection and use of Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) tools to populate the necessary databases
Selection and use of Business Intelligence (BI) & On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools to provide the necessary business functionality

The key steps of our work:

Project scope & initial analysis

Business & IT Requirements
Priorities
Project plan
Resource plan

Detailed design

Logical data models
Extract, transform and load (ETL)
Reporting & analytical functionality

Development

Infrastructure setup
Physical databases
Extract, transform and load (ETL)
Reporting and analytical functionality

Testing

Unit
Integration
Acceptance

Implementation

Operations startup
Production roll-out
Transition
Closure

The following activites take place throughout all phases of the project:

Project management
Status and communication
Quality control
Scope and change management
Knowledge transfer


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