DW and BI Solutions

Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions

Peak Performance Technologies can help you select and implement a financial reporting or analytic solution that's right for your organization. Our team have designed, implemented and managed dozens of PeopleSoft EPM implementations for education and government customers around the nation and we have created innovative models to help customers leverage a team of subject matter experts while keeping the associated costs to a minimum. Whether you are running OBIEE, Hyperion, Business Objects or Cognos our consultants can help you navigate the waters of EPM software and create a realistic implementation, training and support strategy.

Using Peak Performance Technologies rapid deployment model, Peak Performance Technologies implements best-of-class software for consolidations, financial reporting, financial planning and performance measurement. We ensure trouble free implementations from design to rollout to review. Our phased approach allows for quick wins and strategic timing that will ensure your application success.

Our development consultants can assist you with customized solutions and API programming that will help automate and streamline your financial systems processes. We can also assist in deployment, creating installation scripts for your applications to insure a successful rollout.

Value Proposition

• End to End BI & EPM Solutions
• Flexibility to Change
• Onsite, Remote and “as needed” delivery models
• Industry Specific Knowledge
• Quick wins with Proof of Concepts
• Education and Government Solutions

Capabilities

• Local project management and leadership with global delivery
• Focused consultants in the EPM/BI domain
• Proven OBIEE, Hyperion, Business Objects and Cognos experience
• Ability to accelerate projects leveraging pre-built frameworks and data models
• Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) processes
• Training
• Data Marts
• Reporting and Querying Solutions
• Management Dashboards

Project Management

• Implementation and Deployment
• System Testing
• Training Programs
• EPM Project Health-Check
• Application Performance and Tuning
• 3rd-Party Application Integration

Enterprise Datawarehousing

Peak Performance Technologies follows the Ralph Kimball methodology for all its Data Warehouse projects. We can participate in any or all of the stages shown below in line with client requirements.

We subscribe to the star schema models that are fast becoming the de facto standards for data warehouses.

Extraction, Transformation and Loading Process

The Extraction, Transformation and Loading process usually constitutes 60% – 70% of the effort in a business intelligence project. Get this wrong and you’ll get the project wrong. A well architected warehouse or an elegant looking report isn’t worth much if the information content is either incorrect or irrelevant.

We have deep expertise in ETL and have developed our own internal standards for programming, job design and overall process control. These standards are the result of the years of experience gained on several large projects. Good use of these standards translates to ETL stages that are:

• Quick to develop
• Accurate in the data to information transformation
• Less error prone
• More maintainable and staff independent

Reporting and Querying Solutions

Reporting and querying solutions are the basic layer of business intelligence capability within an organization. As the user base for this layer is usually quite large, and often geographically scattered, the tricky design issues that need to be tackled centre around accessibility, performance and security. We have designed reporting solutions for hundreds of users with different access capabilities and are familiar with the design tradeoffs for all the leading reporting and querying tools, assuring you of a best case / best fit solution.

Datamarts

On many occasions, you do not need an enterprise data warehouse – just a specific business intelligence solution to address a specific business problem. Multi dimensional Online Analytic processing or MOLAP, based data mart solutions facilitate rapid delivery of such solutions. The source data for such data marts can come from an enterprise data warehouse, if there is one, or from the relational databases of the source systems.

MOLAP, while powerful, suffers from lack of standard design techniques. A build process would therefore involve trial and error, leading to inefficiencies, inflexible implementations and time and cost overruns. Peak Performance Technologies has developed a set of design templates that allow walkthroughs with users, reducing the number of design iterations involved and eliminating some of these inefficiencies and reducing time to deployment.

Management Dashboards

Dashboards need to go beyond the glitz and deliver real value. Aggregating the right information, formulating the right Key Performance Indicators and delivering it in the most appropriate format and frequency are all key design issues. Our experience in BI goes to work for you to achieve a really useful dashboard rather than a merely cosmetically appealing one. We will work with your functional users and the management team to identify the data points you need and help you learn how to create dashboards that are effective to all areas of the organization.