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Analysis and Planning | Architecture | Data Integration Development | Production Readiness Assessment
Release Upgrades

Analysis and Planning

Proper planning is critically important to the success of any project. A major reason for our firm's long-term success has been our emphasis on helping clients plan their implementations in detail. Analysis and Planning engagements focus on the following major activities:

• Analysis of business requirements and business data rules
• Analysis of platform requirements (hardware, system software, network, database)
• Analysis and sizing of data sources and targets
• Definition of data integration requirements
• Definition of PowerMart/PowerCenter/PowerConnect operating requirements
• Development of high level data architecture
• Development of project plan, including project scope, effort by task and costs

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Data Warehouse Architecture

The data warehouse architecture encompasses three major components: the data architecture itself, the development environment, and the physical platform infrastructure. Architecture engagements address the following critical data warehouse concepts and Informatica "best practices":

• Federated data warehouse bus deployment strategy
• Logical data modeling
• Analytic solution / end-user architecture
• PowerMart/PowerCenter/PowerConnect/PowerPlug software installation and configuration
• Global repository / shared metadata strategy
• ERP data sourcing strategy
• Development standards and procedures
• Security strategy
• Test and production migration strategy

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Data Integration Development

Walldorf Technology Group follows Informatica's Velocity 2.0 "best practices" methodology for designing, building and deploying dependent data marts within an overall federated data warehouse. Development engagements typically include one or more of the following major activities:

• Development of detailed dimensional data models
• Data source detailed analysis
• Physical database design
• End-user analytics design
• Physical database creation
• Design, development and unit testing of data integration processes: mappings and reusable objects
• Data integration system testing
• End-user analytics development and testing
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Documentation and user training
• Production deployment and maintenance

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Production Readiness Assessment

A readiness assessment engagement will focus on one or more of the following key success indicators for a new data mart, to ensure comprehensive system validation and tuning prior to going live:

• Data integration technical design
• Data integration quality assurance
• Performance benchmarking and tuning
• Production cutover plan

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Release Upgrades

Walldorf Technology Group can provide a cost-effective, fixed-fee "turnkey" approach to upgrading your Informatica environment to the latest release of PowerCenter/PowerMart. While minimizing operational disruption and drain on your in-house staff, we are always careful to provide the necessary level of knowledge transfer regarding enhanced features and technology refinements in the new release. An upgrade engagement consists of the following activities:

• Upgrade assessment and planning
• New release software installation and configuration
• Initial upgrade/conversion in test environment
• Production cutover of initial upgrade/conversion
• Upgrade to enhanced functionality in test environment
• Production cutover of enhanced functionality
• Documentation of environment specific upgrade steps

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