Trusted Data Warehousing

Over a ten year period Aspective has successfully delivered a range of data warehousing solutions to companies within a number of industry sectors.  These systems pull together data from a range of sources, organise and clean it to create a “single version of the truth” and then publish the information in a form suitable for reporting and analysis.

Aspective’s approach and capability has been engineered with five key goals.

1. Trust

All too often business users are hesitant to exploit information within data warehouses fully because they don’t trust it. This loss of trust can be the result of any of a number of different causes; some due to failures in the system, some due to lack of business engagement and some due to project governance issues. To avoid these pitfalls, we at Aspective treat the achievement of Trust as a guiding principle in the implementation of management information systems, taking a holistic view of the system and delivery process to ensure sustained success.

2. Business Alignment

Managing priorities from a range of different stakeholders is always challenging and is often the key to a successful initiative. Critical to this is the need to work with users to establish real business needs and the adoption of effective communication/negotiation strategies.

3. Coping with Change

Aspective understands that business needs and priorities can change through the course of a data warehousing initiative and has crafted a project methodology that delivers real functionality in a series of evolutionary steps. This allows elements of the system to go-live early and allows development to be redirected with relative ease in response to a greater understanding of needs and also business change.

4. Rapid Build Technology

Using the right technology is critical to support iterative development processes and ensure high productivity. Aspective always advocates the use of an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) tool and can advise on which tools are appropriate for a particular client situation.

5. Expertise

Aspective has built a significant team of data warehousing professionals all with strong analytical qualities and a wide range of personal experiences. This expertise goes beyond pure technical execution with individuals who have strong industry skills and consultants with experience of initiating major data warehousing programmes within FTSE100 organisations.