Consulting Services

~ Method Focus Inc. provides three types of services:

  1. Education in data warehousing,
  2. Assessment of your current data warehouse environment,
  3. Implementation guidance for your data warehouse project.

1. Data Warehouse Education

We provide training/education in data warehousing to your immediate staff, your users, IT management, user management, and senior management. The training sessions are either a 2-3 hour high-level presentation, a 2 day detailed seminar or a 3 day workshop.

The 2-3 hour high-level presentation to senior management may cover any or all of the following topics:

  1. Introduction to data warehouse
  2. Goals and objectives of the data warehouse
  3. Critical success factors
  4. IT and user relationship
  5. Cost/benefit (ROI)
  6. Organization
  7. Quality
  8. Risk mitigation
  9. Controlling the project
  10. Strategy and planning

The 2 and 3 day seminar are listed under training courses .

2. Data Warehouse Assessment

We use 10 focus areas as a framework for our assessment activities and to produce a score card for your data warehouse environment.

The focus areas are:

  1. Business Value & Strategic Direction
  2. Architecture & Infrastructure
  3. Evaluation & Selection of New Tools
  4. Data Modeling (Logical, Physical, Mapping)
  5. Data Analysis, Integration & Cleansing
  6. Meta Data Strategy & Repository
  7. Standards
  8. Defining the DW Organization (Roles & Responsibilities)
  9. Procedures & Organization for Testing
  10. Application & Delivery

3. Data Warehouse Implementation

Our first step in providing guidance for your data warehouse development activities is to help you prioritize the opportunities for improvement in each of the 10 focus areas. We then assist you with the implementation activities for these improvements.