Data Mining & Analysis, LLC

DM&A offers a complete range of on-site consulting and placement services designed to supplement, advise, or fully staff clients data warehouse projects.  DM&A's key strengths include:

• Industry recognized experts for every key data warehouse role
• All consultants trained in proven data warehouse development methodology
• Consultants certified in current data warehousing tools
• Consultants focused on skills transfer, mentorship, and repeatable success
• Value added reseller for key tools (Cognos, Irwin, Sybase, etc.) to provided added savings to client

In particular DM&A assists businesses in building and executing strategies by:

• Performing initial project readiness assessments
• Identifying the project scope and building project plans
• Assisting in design and post-evaluation reviews
• Performing data modeling for data marts and enterprise data
• Identifying and performing database administration tasks
• Performing data extraction, transformation and loading
• Assisting in the selection of end user access, extraction transformation, and all infrastructure tools
• Performing complete Cognos BI support, development, and training
• Complete out sourcing of an end-to-end architected solution or any of the key roles.  See our experienced staff.
• Permanent recruiting services
• Prototyping -- In only 3 - 4 weeks DM&A consultants create a functioning prototype of your users' vision, with their data.

Over the past few years we have helped medium and large companies design and implement robust reporting solutions. Companies like:

DM&A, has helped some of the largest companies implement their data warehouses.  We can help with yours!

Performing initial project readiness assessments -- Because data warehousing is still new, conducting an orientation (or readiness assessment) is critical. A readiness assessment typically includes discussions with the executive sponsor, potential team members and end users to ascertain their level of understanding of data warehouses in general. DM&A's project manager will deliver a readiness assessment document detailing the technology, costs, education issues, specific project risks, success factors, internal marketing recommendations, initial pilot recommendation and deliver orientation materials necessary.

Identifying the project scope and building project plans -- The project definition and scope document functions as the data warehouse's implementation business plan.  The document describes the project  and identifies the objectives, critical success factors, assumptions, and issues.  Most importantly, the project definition and scope document sets expectations up-front as to what each phase of the data warehouse deployment will include.  In addition to documenting the project scope and building the project plan, DM&A's project manager is available to manage the entire process including:  additional planning, work supervision, status report preparation, leading design reviews, end user training, and other related project management activities.

Assisting in design and post-evaluation reviews -- Only properly designed and implemented data warehouses will meet end users' informational needs.  DM&A design reviews will verify that the business requirements can be achieved via the data warehouse as designed.  DM&A's project manager will look at requirements, logical data models, sourcing information, extraction/load programs, data quality, architecture, physical data model, and end user access mechanisms to ensure design completeness, accuracy and feasibility.

Performing data modeling for data marts and enterprise data -- The data model serves as your roadmap, guiding the development of the data warehouse and metadata.  DM&A's expertise in data modeling techniques and tools can be applied to creating the data warehouse data models.  This activity involves working closely with the end users and I.T. to ensure the data model is designed to meet the business requirements.

Identifying and performing database administration tasks -- DM&A's DBA's perform the following tasks:   Capacity planning, monitoring usage and growth, assisting in the DBMS parallel selections, assisting in the creation of the DBMS instance, metadata, supporting the OLAP environment, performing ongoing performance tuning, managing security, and assisting in optimizing the data loading.

Permanent recruiting services -- DM&A is committed to attracting and developing the best data warehouse resources available to complement and positively impact your business.  Our own professional backgrounds allow us to provide a great advantage to our customers before we supply them with personnel.  Finding and securing the highest qualified candidates is a priority at DM&A.  "To offer the best, we must first have the best.  So naturally we place a great deal of emphasis on our candidate screening process.  And we know exactly what to look for because we've held and managed these positions ourselves."

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