Now, more than ever, data is at the center of the enterprise. For decades, data architecture and management practices have evolved, becoming more ingrained and valuable to business operations, sales, and development.
NEOS offers a broad range of enterprise data services that help organizations adapt and optimize this critical position. We help build upon your hard-earned strengths to best position your organizations for new heights of service to your business.
NEOS Enterprise Data Services include:- Data Integration & Consolidation
- Strategic Planning & Governance
- Business Research Modeling & Analytics
- Data Management Assessment, Enablement and Review
- Data Architecture Modeling, Planning and Implementation
- Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Data Integration and Consolidation
Silos of data are characteristic of companies that have grown through acquisition, that were early adopters of web-based customer service, that were re-structured organizationally, or were product/market oriented in the past.
If globalization is a factor in your future business and service-oriented architecture is part of your IT strategy, data integration and consolidation is an essential ingredient in your current planning. NEOS Data Migration & Consolidation Delivery Services can help you assemble your data and be positioned to provide high-quality, consistent data while saving budget dollars by consolidating and sun-setting legacy systems.
Using aspects of our Modernization Solutions, NEOS seeks to help clients simplify their data architecture.
Now, perhaps more than ever, the need to simplify and consolidate data into single physical architecture is paramount, affordable and leads to long-term cost savings.
NEOS can conduct this service with all major enterprise technology, but excels in providing this service with the Oracle Exadata platform.
To find out how you can achieve long-term cost savings, and further discuss a true, holistic, approach to data integration and simplification for your enterprise, contact NEOS today.
Strategic Planning & Governance
Building a data strategy is hard work with many considerations, some of the top being: the health, growth and acceptance of corporate data, ensuring data transparency and insight into lineage and linkages, and building the right team to implement your strategy. Once your data strategy is set, data governance comes into play to ensure that your strategy is planned, managed and well executed going forward. The key to good governance is to keep it relevant and practical to your business.
Our Strategic Planning & Governance services include:
- Analyzing current state data architecture, operations and business utilization
- Review of data technology tools in place (databases, ETL, reporting, data mining, platforms, etc.)
- Business strategy to data assessments; a gap analysis of where the business is going and your current data state
- Operational review of your organization and its capacity to meet an optimal data-state
- Establishment of data governance that will flex and grow with your organization
NEOS can help you achieve and exceed the expectations of your business partners by designing a data strategy that meets your business needs, matches your organization and integrates with your overall IT strategy. Our most experienced managers and architects work with IT and business executives in developing long-term plans and road maps for executing an enterprise data strategy and positioning you to win.
Contact NEOS to learn how to best align your data strategy with your business and IT direction for optimal performance.
Business Research Modeling and Analytics
The enablement of research models to support product development, predictive analysis and the assembly of data to support regulatory requirements has become a necessity in organizations around the world. Internal research organizations, actuarial groups, compliance units and product development want and need data faster, quicker and with looser conditions than ever before.
As the reality of this business-practical begins to take hold in organizations, the management of models that manipulate data into true "business intelligence" becomes paramount. NEOS can help your organization:
- Define its research data needs
- Coordinate the data needs of your research, actuarial or analytical models
- Create a data organization (with our "Sandbox" solution) that supports data assembly with models
- Create a management model to support development and maintenance of your models (model governance)
- Interpret model, data and research needs into "IT requirements" when/if you decide to make this data ecosystem production ready
Data Management Assessment, Enablement and Review
In the last 15+ years, the term data management has grown from designing relational data models to managing corporate reference data, and everything in between. With this growth, many theories have arisen on the "proper" way to manage data. Many of these theories have been implemented by organizations around the world.
The danger with "theory" is that it is often not practically implemented within an organization. NEOS can help you:
- Assess your current data management and governance practices
- Recommend changes that will streamline the data management & governance processes
- Optimize the alignment of business strategy and data services
- Recommend insight into growth potentials for your organization to better serve your companies' business needs
Implementing theory without practicality leads to enormous wasted cost and, worse, a divide between business operations and IT organizations.
Contact NEOS today to discuss methods of reviewing your data operations and how we can best position your group to succeed in today's challenging business climate.
Data Architecture Modeling, Planning and Implementation
Too often an art form instead of a science, a data model must reflect the business domain embodied within, as well as the broader business utilization that it will serve. Our practical approach to data architecture ensures that you will have an implementation that not only meets the current need, but can also grow with your future needs.
Our Data Architecture services include:
- Subject Model (see our "Data Topology"), logical and physical data model design
- Data dictionary and model development
- Data structure performance optimization
- Scalability and growth assessments/planning
- Physical database creation and administration
- Data movement and population analysis, design and implementation
NEOS architects and modelers all have a minimum of 10 years experience in the design of high performing data architectures ranging from classic OLTP systems to customized solutions such as an enterprise client data hub or a reporting data mart.
Although we have a very strong history with Oracle technologies, we also have extensive experience with Microsoft, Sybase and IBM relational platforms and supporting architecture.
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Data warehousing and business intelligence have become an absolute necessity for organizations. The drive for information to make informed business decisions has never been more important than in our current environment: What new products will you bring to the market and who will you sell them to? Can we trend financials in our newest market segments? Are our customer service levels being met?
Along the way, DW and BI have sometimes gotten a bad rap. Old school thinking endorses "build it and they will come". In many organizations, this approach has led to an extraordinary cash spend with very little to show in the way of providing better business value. The term "Data Warehousing" has actually become taboo in some organizations, as it has been aligned with huge spend and little value.
Instead, NEOS looks at a clients need to "warehouse" data as really a requirement to provide data to a business user in an organized manner that is optimized for reporting, research or mining.
The NEOS approach blends to meet your organization and your budgets appetite; we advocate a holistic view of the data (what might the business want) in our planning and designs, and then implement what is actually required by the business (in order to meet budgetary and user requirements). By taking this approach, we can ensure that the business gets what is needed and that it has the ability to add more data subjects and capability in the future, without reaching a data dead-end.
NEOS Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence services include:
- Data warehouse and reporting strategy
- Requirements gathering and analysis
- Source system assessments and profiling
- BI tool assessments and recommendations
- Data architecture implementation
- ETL architecture design, data mapping and development
- Reporting architecture design, report/interface design, and development
Curious about how to harness the data within your enterprise in a cost effective and efficient manner, while delivering value in a few weeks vs. a few years? Contact NEOS today!
Master Data Management
Master Data Management (MDM) aligns corporate data for use as a "golden source" of data. As the need for data has increased over time, building and implementing an MDM strategy has become critical in many corporations.
NEOS can quickly define an appropriate MDM strategy for your specific business and build a roadmap for MDM adoption and transition that is in alignment with your corporate data strategy. An important factor for enabling this roadmap is the quality of your corporate data. Using a sophisticated profiling assessment matrix, NEOS can help you nominate your primary master data and derive a centralization plan that is appropriate to your business needs and organizational capacity.