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Data: Transform It. Own It. Apply It in Your Custom Applications.

September 16, 2016 by MIAWebAdmin

Your own solution:

Every company has unique business needs. As a result of co-working with a custom software developer, you become the owner of applications that meet all your requirements. Companies often adapt their practices to how the applications work. You need to do the opposite. Custom software development services help you remain and become more competitive. It also has a major impact on productivity since the package of software is tailored to your needs. You no longer have to “share” the same solutions with others.

Support and updates:

With custom applications, your work is not dependent on the provider’s development cycle. You are in charge of all the updates and improvements. Working with in-house developers is only more efficient when your analysts do not have competing priorities. You have more personalized support using your outsourced partner. The team is aware of your individual requirements. As well, you have fewer troubles with hardware environment for applications’ hosting. Custom solutions do not need specific hosting. Applications are adapted to your existing server environment. You no longer have to pay twice as much for having twice as less.

Remember, in-house developers’ reputation and future business is riding on how successfully they develop your custom applications.

Virtually no security issues:

Using packaged software is risky. If someone hacks the software, all the companies using it are in danger of losing proprietary information. Custom software development teams provide their clients with applications that may only be affected by targeted attacks. Your application needs to have extra security measures to ensure its safety.

A custom data management application partner may also enhance your solution’s integration with other software. It makes your team’s work much more intuitive and easy.

Step-by-step production:

Custom software can be produced in chunks. It means that you can run MVP versions several times to check if there is a tight fit to your business and its data management needs. You may add or alter certain parts. Professional developers will help you achieve high performance of your application.

Every project is unique and has its own requirements. If your choice is based on certain needs and budget, you will be able to come up with the right decision. Even so, we can assist you with best practices information and processes. You need to know the differences between development teams. Also, you should be aware of proper requirement analysis.

These guidelines will be almost enough. You need to define what kind of business problems your application will be solving. We need to be especially clear that this step is essential for young companies. You indeed know that you have to work with the right people to achieve success.

Our data integration and custom application development expertise allows our analysts to load, transform, mix, and match data sets as needed. We can blend internal with external data sources to establish historical trends and to project need and demand, which are the backbone of any feasibility study.

Now that we have some clarity on process and really positive business outcomes, call us for a friendly conversation about your data and how we can elevate it to make really savvy business decisions and plans. We’re easy to talk to and we listen well. 512.478.3848.

Or, you can share your thoughts and success stories by emailing us at kcerny@mia-consulting.com. We’ll share too.

A Little Data Transformation Recap with Big Implications for You.

September 7, 2016 by MIAWebAdmin

If CIOs can convince their business unit leaders to implement integrated data platforms successfully, this solution can do the following:

Make both structured and unstructured data available and fully integrated to provide a 360-degree view of the customer
Reduce the cost and streamline the process of storing cold data (archived) and warm data (not required for real-time or data that is accessed often) in economical yet responsive solutions, and still have it available for analytics
Turn poor decisions, made on the basis of haphazard guesswork, into well thought-out and successful results that improve operational efficiencies, drive revenue, and provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace
Drive significant bottom-line improvements through the automation of routine decisions
Give organizations the ability to hold exponentially increasing amounts of new, mostly ad hoc, unstructured data sources while providing the flexibility to adapt to a complex, ever-changing business and data environment

Data is a critical asset of any company, and the success of every company lies in turning this data into insights upon which future plans can be molded. With the help of a properly prepared business data vision, backed up with leadership and support from the C-suite, the CIO can create the framework for an effective data management road map and a technology infrastructure that guide projects in the implementation to achieve their business objectives.

By adopting a blended approach that integrates legacy data with emerging big data and enabling analytics across the entire organizational data platform, the CIO becomes a leader who helps organizations achieve true, value-added, integrated, end-to-end business intelligence.

Give your thoughts and success stories in an email at kcerny@mia-consulting.com. We’ll share too.

The Data Transformation Challenge Is Here in Austin – Right Now!

August 12, 2016 by MIAWebAdmin

One of our Austin Technology and clean-energy movers is CLEAResult. They teach their clients energy usage best practices and new techniques. Just last week, they posted a position opening for an ETL analyst.

This makes sense in the context of their recent wave of acquisitions and the need to get data out of those spaces and into the dashboards that impact what they offer clients. And there’s more.

A Computerworld article discusses a trend of increasing demand for ETL and other data transformation analysts and data scientists in the Austin and Southwest areas. Here is one salient comment from their coverage of what’s happening.

“Local recruiters are looking more and more for people in the world of mobile applications, and people with good skills in data integration, big data and . . . visualization and data analytics,” Jake Dominguez, CIO at Austin-based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices stated. “There is fierce competition for design engineers, for manufacturing and new technology, and we are seeing a lot of design centers being built.”

Already one in eight jobs in Austin is within the technology sector, and since those jobs pay well, they account for a quarter of the local payroll, says Drew Scheberle, vice president of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. The chamber estimates that there are about 4,700 technology companies in the Austin area and that 150 people are moving to the area every day.

The demand is much greater than the supply of proven ETL and data integration talent available in our area. You need to get your data to work right now, so what can you do?

Additionally, we can help you monitor trends, measure progress toward a specific quantitative goal, or flag shifts in your market or business operations.

Engage a successful, seasoned team of data integration analysts. We cost less and deliver more. Our Austin, Texas location keeps us at the epicenter of planning analytics and data-driven healthcare innovation and keeps our global capabilities and services at the forefront of our industry.

Email us at kcerny@mia-consulting.com or call us at 512.478.3848 to start a friendly, productive conversation.

Custom Applications at the Speed of Your Decisions

May 6, 2016 by MIAWebAdmin

It’s now an IT custom-applications tsunami: more and more, business applications live outside of the firewall. Sure, some core and repetitive applications still live in-house, but most have moved to the cloud. Others were replaced with SaaS options.

What does this mean for development? Killer applications must provide a way to communicate and integrate with other applications. This is why we’ve seen such rapid growth in application programming interfaces (APIs)–a trend that will gain steam in the coming years.

In the past, business software focused on function over form. It usually wasn’t pretty, but it got the job done. However, a funny thing happened when mobile apps and cloud-based consumer software became popular. Users realized something: Software doesn’t have to be boring or confusing.

Here are our thoughts for maximizing your data assets and delivering your data to your device as we work through the meat of 2016:

Embrace experimentation and a fail-fast style of development to produce better application, data access, and services faster.
Immerse your team in rapid development principles, such as DevOps and lean engineering to automate and accelerate delivery while improving quality.
Work with our highly skilled, experienced analysts and developers to apply emerging technologies from their learning lab into custom apps development to address your top business challenges.

These takeaways will boost your business’ data management and analytics ecosystem and help you can make it to this Friday’s happy hour with a smile on your face:

ETL Plus is the fastest, most efficient way to get your data out of its old silos and into the mix of the internal and big data you must use to exceed your key performance objectives.
Outsourcing your custom applications development to an experienced team of analysts who are non-agenda, high performers accelerates you to mastery of your custom data sets.
Engaging and challenging a custom-applications development leader with deep experience across spaces from retail to healthcare gets you clear and comfortable with best choices and data usage practices.

We have some success stories to share that tell you we can help with your data management and collaboration challenges. Latch on to a partner who can accelerate your data transformation, making your data visual, usable, and immediately more agile!

Our Austin, Texas location keeps us at the epicenter of software engineering innovation and keeps Management Information Analysis’ global capabilities at the forefront of our industry.

Call us to start a neutral and friendly conversation. 512-478-3848.