Drivestream offers two ways to get your Information Management projects delivered:
- Turn-key solutions, where seasoned Drivestream project managers, architects, developer, and testers are engaged to drive the project from inception to post production or
- Alternatively you may want to utilize our expertise to augment your project team in a few areas. The several areas where we offer services of defined scope are detailed below.
This soup-to-nuts delivery service is a carefree offering where most of the burden of the heavy lifting is shouldered by us.
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Turn-key service is offered for the following types of
solutions:
- Implementing Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence applications.
- Implementing Master Data Management applications.
- Establishing a Data Governance process
- Implementing Metadata Management applications
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Drivestream will be responsible for:
- Project management
- Creating and delivering required project documents and artifacts
- Staffing and executing the project for the following phases
- Planning
- Design
- Build
- Test
- Deployment
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Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions are complex and require good processes and methodologies in addition to good design and architecture. Drivestream solutions are based on industry best practices, sound knowledge of tools, and tailored to your custom needs. We provide services in the following areas:
- Project Planning
- Requirement Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Data Modeling
- Architecture and Design
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Project Planning
Drivestream will:
- Review and revisit BI strategy and roadmap
- Facilitate discussions with architects, business and IT leadership to
develop project charter, financial, resourcing plans, etc
- Prepare and review high level project plan considering
- Tools
- Methodology
- Risks and assumptions
- Staffing and budgetary constraints, etc
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At the completion of the engagement you will get:
- Project charter which includes the following:
- Project scope and mission
- Project financial plan
- Project resource plan
- Risks and assumptions
- Communication plan
- High level project plan
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Requirements Analysis
Drivestream will:
- Conduct workshops with various stakeholders to document business requirements
which includes both functional and non-functional requirements
- Build consensus among various stakeholders to review and agree on scope
and detailed requirements
- Define high level data requirements including information about data
sourcing
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At the completion of the engagement you will get:
- Application/Project Requirements Document which includes the following:
- Functional requirement
- Non-functional requirements
- High level data requirements
- High level data sourcing plan
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Data Analysis
Drivestream will:
- Review, validate and refine data sourcing plan
- Analyze internal and external data sources to identify and resolve differences
- Perform data profiling to understand data distribution, primary keys,
foreign keys, valid values, data structure, data integrity, and data correlation
between sources, etc
- Assess data quality and propose ways to resolve data discrepancies
- Work with Data Stewards to define, document valid values and data cleansing
rules for data elements
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At the completion of the engagement you will get:
- An updated data sourcing plan
- Data quality report
- Data cleansing specifications
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Data Modeling
Drivestream will:
- Review and revisit business requirements with users
- Facilitate discussions with business users and data stewards to collect
detailed data requirements
- Facilitate discussions with business users to understand and document
business processes
- Analyze effective ways of data storage for selected RDBMS and adjust
the data model accordingly
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At the completion of the engagement you will get:
- Detailed data requirements document
- Logical data model including all business entities, their attributes
and definitions
- Source to target mapping
- Physical data model adapted to the chosen RDBMS
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Architecture and Design
Drivestream will prepare detailed architecture and design
document in any of the following areas:
- Overall solution
- Data Integration
- Reporting
- Metadata Management
- Master Data Management
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At the completion of the engagement you will get respective
documents as shown below:
- Solution approach, design, and architecture
- Data Integration design and architecture
- Reporting design and architecture
- Metadata Management design and architecture
- Master Data Management design and architecture
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Implementation is where rubber meets the road. Even with meticulous planning and best design your data warehouse project may stumble without a good implementation partner to make it reality. Drivestream service offerings help implement your enterprise information projects with ease.
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Building
Drivestream offers build services in the following areas:
- Data Integration
- Reports
- Metadata management
- Master data management
Training and Deployment
Drivestream will:
- Train and mentor support staff
- Create user manuals, support documents
- Code deployment planning and execution
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At the completion of the engagement you will get the respective
deliverables as detailed below:
- Detailed project plan
- Data Integration job designs, specifications, and code
- Report designs, specifications, and code
- Metadata integration job designs, specifications, and code
- MDM service designs, specifications, and code
- Job schedules and their design
- User manuals
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Testing
Drivestream will:
- Develop testing strategy and plan
- Develop test cases
- Perform, document, and manage test
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At the completion of the engagement you will get:
- Testing strategy and plan document
- Test cases document
- Test scripts and documented results
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