Cognizant Technology Solutions Announces Data Warehouse Consolidation Service
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (Cognizant), an application management outsourcer providing software development and maintenance services, has announced a comprehensive service to consolidate data warehouses.
The idea for the new service came from increasing requests from Cognizant clients for data warehousing expertise, seeking to consolidate data warehouses as a result of a merger or acquisition.
"The 'Roaring 90s' have produced a rash of merged businesses that need to combine separate, often incompatible, data warehouses," said N. "Veera" Veeraraghavan, Senior Manager for Data Warehouse Projects, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation. "Cognizant's expertise in this arena is strong, covering a broad spectrum of platforms, tools, and a variety of clients. The onsite/offshore model provides the needed coding resources in a cost effective way."
The onsite/offshore business model is particularly useful when consolidating data warehouses. For example, as a result of a merger or acquisition companies are pressed to complete integration quickly and the onsite/offshore model expedites delivery cost effectively. Cognizant can build the new integrated warehouse - rewriting all extracts, data models, reports - or maintain the old data warehouse while internal staffers develop the new data warehouse. Onsite/offshore offers quick turnaround and the highest quality project management.
Projects are facilitated by Cognizant's onsite/offshore CMM Level 4 certified service model, enabling project managers at the client's location to communicate with programmers in India, and undertake development and maintenance on an around-the-clock, seven-days-a-week basis.
Cognizant provides programming resources for data warehouse activities that currently don't have robust toolsets available. This includes the frequent refreshing and loading of target databases, the maintenance of different cubes to reflect slowly changing dimensions and meta data synchronization. Cognizant also supplies ad hoc report development.
In addition, demand for data warehousing has been boosted by the rapid growth of the Internet. "As the World Wide Web multiplies both the amount of information gathered on potential and current customers, and the uses for that data, the value of effective knowledge management is growing every day," Veeraraghavan said.
Cognizant delivers high-quality, cost-effective, full life-cycle solutions to complex software development and maintenance problems. Cognizant employs more than 1,600 computer sciences and engineering professionals at client sites and at its seven development centers in India. The company's offerings include application development, maintenance and re-engineering, with expertise in data warehousing, web enabling, and object-oriented development. Cognizant's development centers have been assessed at SEI-CMM Level 4 and its methodologies are ISO 9001 certified. For more information, visit Cognizant on the web at http://www.cts-corp.com.