The Microsoft SQL Server technology suite is the most competitively priced data warehouse platform, with the features and scalability needed for large solutions. However, price matters little if your data warehouse project fails. To avoid this (and save your job!) turn to SolidQ.
SolidQ is the leading firm for SQL Server data warehouse architecture and technology expertise. Its global team has broad experience and expertise designing, tuning, and implementing SQL Server-based data warehouse solutions and literally wrote the best practices on implementing SQL Server solutions, including how to architect enterprise data warehouses on the Microsoft data platform.
Our Mentors have written over 25 Microsoft SQL Server books—Don’t bring in the consultants with the books in their backpack; bring in the team who wrote the books!
- Microsoft turned to SolidQ to write the EDW best practices toolkit guide to implementing data warehouses on SQL Server—design, infrastructure, integration, and administration.
- Our clients have been thrilled with our industry expertise across the board and the business success of the solutions we implement (from healthcare, retail, and manufacturing to insurance, housing, and investment).We have the most experience (outside of Microsoft) on Microsoft’s latest EDW technology initiatives: Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and Fast Track Data Warehousing.
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“Price matters little if your data warehouse fails….”
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Overview of EDW Solution Offerings
Our solution offerings range from EDW architectural strategy efforts and EDW solution design and implementation projects to EDW team augmentation and mentoring (partnering with your company to build a successful data warehouse solution).
- EDW Strategy and Architecture – Kick off your project on the right foot: SolidQ provides a strategy and planning offering that includes an enterprise information architecture review, EDW strategy and architecture planning, project recommendations and approach, and technology platform roadmap.
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Our EDW strategy engagement will lay out the strategy and architecture for your specific objectives and business goals.
- EDW-Focused Expertise or Solution Mentoring – Add confidence to your internal effort – augment your team with a data warehouse solution architect or technology expert from our team. SolidQ offers this engagement model to give you the support and expertise you need throughout the project lifecycle.
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Option A of this model is a team augmentation approach, where we provide a technology expert or EDW solution architect to fill the team needs within your project.
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Option B combines a strategy engagement with a technology or architecture expert. The SolidQ team ramps down over time as your internal team ramps up.
EDW Full Implementation – Let us take the entire burden from your shoulders. If you need to build a successful EDW solution the first time but have no internal resources to dedicate to the effort, we can set the strategy and architecture and then build the solution, working with your business to define the solution and with IT to implement it.
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Your needs may vary, from needing technology or architecture team resources, to needing an outside firm to design and build your warehouse, to needing EDW visioning and planning based on your environment.
Industry Expertise
Our data warehouse implementation and strategy expertise spans every major corporate vertical: supply chain-based manufacturing, travel, healthcare, banking, legal, insurance, and more.
Here is a snapshot of our EDW experience:
Retail & Manufacturing – In the retail and manufacturing space, business challenges involve optimization of processes, pricing and inventory management, procurement, and customer retention. We’ve served large international retail establishments down to niche product manufacturers, adding value to their information decisions.
Insurance & Healthcare – Insurance companies want to know risk and trend claims across internal and purchased customer attributes. Healthcare is about patient care, diagnosis and procedure trends, and billing and reimbursement rates. We have experience in the auto and health insurance industries and are involved in the largest SQL Server-based healthcare EDW implementation.
Banking & Investment – Financial firms continually evaluate investment products and marketing to get an edge over their competition, win over customers, and balance their portfolio offerings. We’ve helped firms in the financial industry manage very large transactional volumes and deal with acquisitions by integrating data together into large data warehouses, providing macro trends.
Travel & Logistics – The goals of the travel and logistics industry are similar (especially these days): How can we maximize the transportation of people or payloads? How can we optimize our routing and pricing? We’ve built multi-terabyte EDW solutions for travel businesses and have successfully integrated data from large-scale varying sources—including legacy systems, binary data, and flat files.