Independent ETL project management can make any ETL project feasible and significantly save on implementation time and money. All major ETL tool vendors agree that the early identification of risks and bottlenecks is crucial. Not following such best practices is the leading cause of ETL project failure.

You can use best input on optimizing or reducing the cost of your ETL and business intelligence costs by learning how to “see” your needs clearly and then management the movement of your data from both internal and external sources to a structure that drive better and more intelligent business decisions. By most accounts, 80% of the development effort in a Big Data project goes into data integration; the rest goes toward data analysis.

A word to the wise; drop out the data you don’t use and partner with a team that bases their reputation and business success on doing it right . . . each time and all of the time.

Take a look at these and choose what you can use:

• Keep it simple; the fewer steps involved, the less chance there is, for things to go wrong. When changes need to be made, or fixes applied, simplicity helps. Ownership of the ETL processes may change hands, and a simple design will aid those responsible.

• Think modular; design units of work with an eye to repeatable patterns. Aim to have as few modules as possible. These can be applied as templates for future development.

• Add or subtract as needs change; design to include only that data identified as valuable to the business in the context of a given project or release cycle. Over time, additional data elements can be added to ETL jobs, or superfluous ones taken away.

• Audit trail; be able to trace the path that data takes from source to target. Have the means to identify any transformations applied to values along the way.

Why team with us? As teams of proven professionals that support you with data integration services, custom application development, and enterprise and strategic planning solutions we have only one purpose; creation and delivery of solutions that give you utmost confidence in your data-driven decisions.

We can help you monitor your predictive HR trends, measure progress toward a set of quantitative goals or flag shifts in your markets or financial operations. Call us to start a conversation that can enhance your data management investment while you make savvy asset management decisions. 512 478 3848.