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Int3s has extensive in-house expertise in enterprise-level data warehouse implementation utilizing the most current design principles, techniques and industry best practices. Our staff and services support the entire data warehouse life cycle including business requirements, data modeling, extract, transform and load (ETL), business reporting and analytics, metadata management, master data management, systems integration, technical architecture, tool architecture, database management services and data quality management.
Our members' solutions and services in the BI domain have been instrumental to organizations' business success and have resulted in a list of satisfied clients.
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Data Integration Services
A cohesive data management strategy enables an organization to obtain a higher level of understanding into its business by integrating the data as well as applications across the entire enterprise.
The Int3s team works with clients to provide a framework for integrating data from a variety of source systems, including legacy applications, data warehouses or data marts, third party systems, external data, operational systems and web-based applications.
Int3s staff are experienced in most common BI database implementations such as Oracle, IBM, Terradata, Netezza and BI tools including Cognos, Business Objects, Information Builders and Informatica as an ETL tool.
Data Warehousing Services
It is our goal to assist clients to maintain a competitive market edge by integrating their strategic business processes – ERP, SCM/CRM and other source systems data throughout the enterprise – to depict a unified view of all the activities throughout the enterprise.
The Int3s team has real-life experience building a wide range of data warehousing components including ODS, integrated and federated data marts, enterprise data warehouses and data hubs. We have developed entity models and frameworks for various industries that provide added value and expedite client implementations.
We support widely accepted industry standards such as Common Information Model (CIM) for the electric utility and Centre for Studies in Insurance Operations (CSIO) and Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD) for insurance. We are also actively involved in user groups and user communities.
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BI Projects
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- BI business case development, strategy formulation and project roadmap
- Enterprise Data Warehouse physical architecture and data modeling including metadata
- Financial Data Mart covering traditional financial reporting, project and labor costing, supply chain
- Asset Management Data Mart covering Asset Health Index calculator, grid investment prioritization, reliability calculations, geo-mapping of asset data
- Metering Data Mart to facilitate data mining of Smart Meter data including energy loss analysis, fine-grain load profile
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ETL Processes
We assist our clients in developing their ETL strategy, tool selection, defining ETL requirements, development and implementation. We can provide skilled staff to complement the project team to ensure successful implementations.
Metadata Solutions
With a view to ensure easier navigation through an enterprise data system as well as to increase user confidence of data integrity and quality, Int3s also offers expertise in developing metadata solutions. Our team-tested metadata solutions capture and store information about the data, processes, lineage, applications and their relationship to one another. This enables the user community to effectively utilize the information and increase their confidence level in the information integrity and quality.
Our service offerings include strategy assessment, repository evaluation and metadata repository implementation.
Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions
To enable quicker access to the data by users across the enterprise for faster and effective decision support, Int3s offers expertise in developing business intelligence solutions which encompass a variety of approaches and strategies to delivery: standard reports, structured queries, ad-hoc analysis, and analytic applications. Our subject matter experts provide assistance in:
- Identifying and defining the primary purpose of the information from an enterprise perspective
- Identifying the profile of the business users
- Identifying the business information needs of the different business units
- Formulating the business intelligence requirements for each business unit, which includes reports, query access functionality and data access options
- Developing and implementing easy-to-use business intelligence solutions
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Int3s’ open source partnerships assist in creating a foundation focused on flexible and leading edge solutions. Collaboration in open source communities complements Int3s’ core competencies and focus on providing clients with superior enterprise solutions that are scalable and flexible. It is important to ensure clients are not bound to specific vendors and they do not need to modify their internal business processes to accommodate inflexible solutions. Clients will benefit from Int3s’ broad range of experience and extensive knowledge in specialized industries.
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It is important in today’s market for companies not just to utilize IT for their business, but for them to take a proactive approach with an IT strategy. This enhances the agility of IT within an organization and better aligns it with the overall business strategy to ensure IT supports the business and makes work as efficient and effective as possible. Professional IT solution design will include consideration of an organization’s existing structure, process and applications, and ensure future implementations allow for scalibility, flexibility and financial returns on IT investments.
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Sample Projects
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- Smart Meter back office integration including CIS, AMI, MDM
- Time-Of-Use billing web services development to provide consumption and weather data to customer-facing web portal
- Smart Meter regulatory reporting
- Smart Grid analytics strategy development
- Smart Grid consolidated control room analysis
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Connected very closely to the success of an organization’s IT strategy is IT architecture. The architecture of an IT solution plays a critical role in ensuring a solution is scalable, useful, and straightforward to manage. Systems deployed without careful architectural planning and design can easily become tedious to manage, and can end up being more difficult to administer than the value they create. Int3s has years of experience in solution architecture design and implementation, further enhancing IT system implementations and enabling growth of our clients’ businesses.
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IT governance is crucial to successful projects as well as performance and best practices in IT. Governance provides the assurance at a corporate level that the IT practices followed conform to industry best practices. Governance and standards play an important role not just in projects, but also in ongoing management of IT systems. Int3s has extensive knowledge and experience implementing COBIT, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management methodology, and keeps abreast of changes made by governing bodies such as the IT Governance Institute.
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