Data Consulting

Organisations make business decisions, which is essential for growth, based on information. The decision-making can only drive growth if the underlying data is accurate, consistent, and complete.

Data Assist is a data management company geared specifically towards helping organisations overcome the data-related challenges they face. We can help you develop a strategy for tapping into your data, paving the way for your business to maximise growth and revenue.

At Data Assist we believe our clients deserve robust Management Information Systems. We partner with our clients, understand their needs, then fuse strategy and theory with cutting-edge practical implementation to deliver first-rate Data Management Solutions.

DATA QUALITY

Many organisations face different data challenges and they employ different strategies to overcome these challenges. However, while these challenges may differ, the underlying goal is to make informed decisions that will put the organisation on a growth path. To make informed decisions, organisations must be empowered with access to accurate, complete, consistent and timely data. Data Assist can help to ensure your data quality is industry leading allowing its usage to drive business growth.

DATA MIGRATION

Organisations often look for ways to achieve a higher level of customer service. Often, this may require the purchase of a new application. To ensure continuity, data has to be moved from the legacy system or systems to a new application. Using a well thought-out and detailed plan, Data Assist will help you plan and execute a Data Migration process. This will be done without the loss of data or misrepresentation of the actual meaning of your source data.

DATA ANALYTICS

As enterprises become ever more dependent on outside market behavior and competitive forces, the ability to leverage valuable customer and product use data from a variable of sources grows more critical. Most organisations are overwhelmed by the information blizzard and don’t know what to do with the data they are collecting. Data Assist can help manage data more effectively, generate more accurate and timely reports and meet regulatory compliance.

DATA INTEGRATION

Many organisations have a proliferation of data repositories, spread across different business units and regions. Couple this with an increasing number of Mergers and Acquisitions and you will find that this disparate data, spread far and wide across an organisation, becomes a massive challenge. Implementing a Data Integration Solution allows organisations to effectively consolidate data into a single enterprise-wide repository, thus providing an accurate basis on which to make effective and informed decisions.

We provide data integration solutions across all business units, pulling together data sets from a myriad of legacy systems, spreadsheets, and databases. Applications that we work with include, but are not limited to, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Relational Sources.

ETL (EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, LOAD)

ETL is a widely used procedure for cleanly moving data from one application (the source), to another (the target). Whether you are embarking on a Data Integration project or Master Data Management project, data has to be moved from one location to another. And this movement of data can be done in an organised manner.

There are three parts to any ETL process;

Extract – Data from various source systems is collected in an orderly manner and placed in temporary locations. This has been made possible through transformation objects within the many ETL tools, such as Informatica, PowerCentre, SAP Data Services and Talend.

Transform – In the transformation process, business rules are applied to extracted data. Data can be aggregated, sorted, normalised, and enriched. Data can also be cleansed and validated.

Load – This process is about how transformed data is inserted into a target system.