Avellino Discovery Speeds Data Integration

Avellino, the UK data integration consultancy, announced at Data Warehousing 2000 show the launch of Avellino Discovery. Avellino's unique data analysis engine intelligently automates the analysis of large data volumes in the design phase of integration projects, reducing the time taken by as much as 90 per cent when compared with manual methods. Data analysis forms as much as 50 per cent of an integration project and so the tool is of great benefit to time critical projects such as eBusiness, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Data Warehousing and Mergers and Acquisitions.

According to the Quality Assurance Institute, an error detected during the project testing phase can cost up to 100 times more to correct than the same error found during the design phase. Avellino Discovery can help companies reduce the risk and cost involved in integration projects by ensuring an accurate view of the source data at that critical early design phase. Avellino Discovery helps organisations discover the true content, structure, relationships and quality of source data rather than them having to rely on inaccurate metadata or out-of-date documentation.

Tony Rodriguez, CEO at Avellino, states: "Organizations often underestimate the risks involved in enterprise data integration, with a high number of projects failing to deliver on time and within budget. The main reason for this failure is the organization's lack of understanding of the source data to be integrated.

"You cannot plan for what you do not know and unless a thorough analysis of the source data is carried out you will be forced to make assumptions and risk the success of the project. Avellino Discovery eliminates this risk by providing a sound and accurate base upon which to begin integration," concluded Rodriguez.

Product Information

Benefits:

• Accurate planning of data integration projects
• Identifies and manages data cleansing issues at an enterprise level
• Creates a single view of data across the enterprise
• Reduces risks and costs by eliminating data assumptions
• Increases the productivity of data analysts and business resources

Features:

• Analyses data values, frequency, patterns and format
• Discovers important data statistics (min, max, nulls, length, etc.)
• Finds redundant or duplicate data
• Discovers Joins, Keys and Data Dependencies
• Provides a centralised hybrid repository of data, metadata, statistics and documentation
• Offers an intuitive point-and-click user interface with powerful drill-down facilities
• Easily integrates with any database or tool
• Supports large data volumes (terabytes)

About Avellino Discovery

Avellino's data analysis automation tool Avellino Discovery automatically examines the source data to be moved into the new system infrastructure in integration projects. It provides a detailed description of the data content, structure, relationships and quality. Because it does not rely on data definition rules, metadata or out-of-date documentation, it is far more accurate than manual methods and eliminates the assumptions that can lead to project failure. Avellino Discovery has the additional advantage of allowing users to drill-down to the data itself should a problem or discrepancy be noticed and can help reduce the time required for data analysis by as much as 90 per cent over manual methods.

About Avellino

Founded in 1997, Avellino is a UK-based independent provider of end-to-end solutions and strategic data integration consultancy. Avellino specializes in the planning, design, building, testing and implementation of some of the most technically challenging data integration projects in Europe.

Avellino's highly experienced, multi-discipline consultants are guided by a proven planning and implementation methodology as part of its total solution, 'the Avellino Approach'. Used together with the company's unique data analysis solution, Avellino Discovery, businesses that choose Avellino can cut their entire data integration or migration project timescales by up to 65%.

Avellino often takes the lead role in integration projects, using complementary tools and expertise from partners, such as data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) and data cleansing vendors to deliver fast, accurate and cost-effective results.

Avellino's headquarters are in Aldermaston, Berkshire and its UK customers include Scottish & Southern Energy, Anglian Water, Lloyds TSB, British Gas, EDS, First Direct, Co-operative Insurance (CIS), Xerox and many others.

More information can be found by visiting www.avellino.com.

Contact Zok Snell/Georgina Tulloch, Oast Communications, Tel: +44 (0)19 5956 5505, zoes@oastcommunications.com.