Information Management

The importance of extracting operational data for Strategic information is now essential to the success of an organisation. In addition to extracting data organisations overlook the asset value of the quality of their data.

Organisations that leverage their corporate information and align business processes to data quality will be most successful in a running an efficient measured business. The challenge though always is to integrate dispersed data sources. The management of all these transactional data systems makes the challenge of bringing data together into a single reporting source more challenging.

At COA Solutions we make this challenge a reality and more importantly we make it simple for our clients. We understand the need to align Data Warehouse solutions to the organisations strategic requirements and how these requirements are brought together within an organisation. In addition we have many years experience in understanding data warehousing tools and techniques, this provides our clients with the freedom to explore and ensure they have a solution to meet their business and marketplace.

In our strategic Partner IBM to compliment our Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Skills we are accredited and certified partners of the Infosphere suite of products. These include:

Implementing an IBM data warehouse solution brings a number of benefits. Common design tools and interfaces enable IT staff to more easily use and deploy warehouse capabilities. Advanced compression technology helps improve performance and storage capacity. And built-in managing and analytics functions extend warehouse capabilities to help users uncover the actionable information within the data. The IBM Balanced Warehouse is a complete data warehousing solution comprised of pre-tested, scalable and fully-integrated DB2 Warehouse, Server and Storage system components.

IBM Infosphere DataStage

IBM InfoSphere DataStage, a core component of the IBM® InfoSphere Data Integration Suite, enables you to tightly integrate enterprise information, despite having many sources or targets and short time frames.

Whether you're building an enterprise data warehouse to support the information needs of the entire company, building a "real time" data warehouse, or integrating dozens of source systems to support enterprise applications like customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP), WebSphere DataStage helps ensure that you will have information you can trust.

IBM Master Data Management (MDM)

Enterprises want to gain and maintain control of their data. Often their vital master data is out of sync, incomplete or inaccurate. And they may have been wrestling with silos of information for over three decades.

IBM Master Data Management is Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)-based middleware designed to provide large enterprises with the most flexible framework possible, supporting both structured and unstructured data and business services and aligning them with key business processes.

IBM brings together information integration, content management, business intelligence and master data management for specific data objects and industries-all the key components required for a successful master data management strategy.

Large enterprises benefit from the ‘single version of the truth’ that master data management provides across all their applications and processes, letting them manage large amounts of diverse data stored in a range of sources.

The key benefits for your business are:

Driving strategic and financial value by managing high volumes of complex data in an integrated manner.
Gaining control of your organisation’s data and managing a master version of the truth that is complete and accurate.
Building an accurate and complete understanding of key master data entities.