Key Services
Here are some key Data Management services provided by Skura:
Data Management Strategies
Strategies to Help You Succeed!
Data, and its integration throughout your enterprise, is the foundation on which critical operations, forecasting and analysis are being performed each day. It is well worth investing time and effort in one of your organization’s most valuable commodities to ensure that you create a solid foundation for the many critical functions your data supports.
Skura can help you make the following a reality:
- Map out current enterprise, operations and visions.
- Map out what you’re currently missing and uncover major causes of inefficiencies.
- We give you a vision, if needed, and the ideal enterprise solutions.
- Map out how to reach your goal.
Skura’s Approach
- We learn the nuisances of your business as compared to our industry experience.
- We take best practices into account along with the practical experiences we have gathered.
- We are experts in facilitating requirement gathering sessions, documenting the results and implementing the solutions from the master data application, to the database design, to the Enterprise Intnegration.
Key Benefits
- Reap the true benefits of your CRM solutions.
- Obtain a ‘best of breed’ record for each of your customers, reaching a 360 degree view of them.
- Quicker turnaround on compliance.
- Seamlessly execute ‘cross business’ initiatives and gain visibility between them.
- Incorporate future enterprise applications or data partners with ease.
Why Skura?
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We can guide you through tough business decisions surrounding your data.
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Our consultants put the success of your project first and do things the right way.
- We know Life Sciences. We know how your business works.
Helpful Tips
- We would recommend a phased implementation.
- Involve representatives from across the business early, because the largest complexity is often related to coming to an agreement on definitions and business rules.
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Architecture Assessments
We perform architecture assessments in intervals to ensure that our clients are following through on existing visions for the future. We also perform initial or realignment assessments to lay out a 3–5 year plan. These efforts will enable you to reach your goals for an optimum architecture, allowing you to facilitate the continued success of your organization and respond to critical business events.
Key deliverables can include:
Current Architecture Documentation:
- System Architecture Diagrams
- Data Flow Diagrams
- Data Profiling and Job Descriptions for Major Enterprise Applications
- Data Warehouse/Data Mart/Operational Data Store Review
- Reporting and Analytics Review
- Current Challenges and Advantages
- Future Requirements
Future State Architecture Documentation:
- System Architecture Diagrams
- Data Flow Diagrams
- Implementation Approach
- Suggested Timelines
- Cost Estimates
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Data Quality Assessments
Our Data Quality Assessments are the best way to avoid surprises in the future, as well as to prepare you for application migrations, integrations or even MDM implementations. Our reports contain detailed metrics surrounding every anomaly you are aware of, as well as many that you may not be aware of.
We are experts in the field and have witnessed hundreds of common hidden data issues which many clients are not even aware of with their CRM solution. From orphan records, to duplicates, to the lack of standard formatting, we catch it all.
Key deliverables can include:
- Data Profiling for Applications Involved
- Root Cause Analysis
- Suggested Solutions:
- Data Cleansing
- Application Alterations
- Business Process Alterations
- System Implementations
- Suggested Timelines
- Estimated Costs
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Data Migration Strategies and Implementations
When applications are undergoing upgrades or possibly being replaced with newer technologies, a large part of the effort is moving the data to the new system.
We help with everything from simple data load ETL work to more complex scenarios involving data flow diagrams. This incorporates MDM solutions, which some of the data may pass through, or result in the amalgamation of multiple application’s data.
Now is the perfect time to re-evaluate your data as well, making sure you only bring across what is relevant, clean and accurate.
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MDM Strategies and Implementations
MDM solutions require enterprise-level planning and buy-in. We assist in performing needs analysis, integration planning, requirements gathering, and of course, design and final implementation.
From our business process analysis work, to our release management methodologies, we will assist you in making your single version of the truth a reality.
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Enterprise Data Integration Implementations
Eliminating silos are huge wins for our Enterprise and Customer Data Integration (CDI) group. Nothing gives us more satisfaction than facilitating better communication between business groups, realizing the ‘best of breed’ records between enterprise applications via the integration of an MDM solution.
Enterprise-level data highways or data buses are crucial in the long run to eliminate the constant, never-ending investment in point-to-point interface development and maintenance. We can help you lay the foundation for a phased approach to reaching your goal of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), right up to the last phase of implementing the final middleware pieces.
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Database Administration & Support
Our extremely talented resource pool includes not only developers and architects, but also administrative personnel who are knowledgeable in everything from disaster recovery techniques to archiving strategies to database optimization, or even simple shell scripting of automated processes and monitoring.
DBAs are commonly the most heavily demanded resource in your organization. Let us help in those times of extreme workload, to either augment your team or bring your outsourcing to a level of highest quality.
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