Corporate Information Factory

Quality Insurance – Not just another Assurance Program

This is one insurance policy you will use up front. We provide customized services focused exclusively on validating your value proposition. We do this as your project is progressing, so that you can file claims on the policy – or enforce the intent behind the terms of your project definitions and vendor agreements. It is this ability to provide real-time enforcement of execution that provides such immediate value. We can also help tailor your project definitions and vendor agreements to make them easier to track and enforce. Examples include:

• Implementation Review: A business audit of your project
• Vendor compliance verification: A compliance view of service levels
• Usage and Scalability Analysis: A review of multi-year growth impacts

Total Cost, Total Return

Tired of expense account IT investments? Had enough shelf ware and single project throwaway licenses? Our experience with customers worldwide confirms those feelings. We know the hidden costs and losses associated with IT projects. We can help you avoid these and show you how to manage for Total Returns. Custom Programs Include:

• Interactive Cost Estimator – Capturing total costs
• Inmon DW Appraisal – Distinguishing between investment and expense
• CIF Scorecard – Scoring your IT investment at the enterprise level

Total Cost of Ownership

Wouldn't it be nice to know what your warehouse is going to cost before you start to build it?

Wouldn't it be nice to know the economic effect of building the warehouse in iterations?

We have developed a Total Cost of Ownership model that allows you to know how much your data warehouse is going to cost before you jump in feet first. We come to your business and analyze your data warehouse parameters.

Everybody knows that data warehousing is the key to a foundation for information management. Once you have built your data warehouse so many things come easier:

• Access to information
• CRM
• Churn Analysis
• Credit Scoring Analysis
• Exploration and Data Mining
• Data Marts and OLAP Processing, and so forth

Data warehousing is conventional wisdom for good reason. Organizations with data warehouses make solid business decisions quickly based on information management, while organizations without data warehouses flounder and may not find the most business critical information. A data warehouse costs money, requires its own hardware and software foundations, and then becomes an integral part of the infrastructure. Conventional wisdom has it that a data warehouse can cost a lot of money; most companies have NO idea how much it will cost as they set out to build it.

So how is it that you go about building a data warehouse, knowing that it is going to cost a lot of money, but not knowing exactly how much? It is kind of like flying an airplane in the clouds with no instrumentation - it is just a matter of time before you crash.

We are a third party and don't sell software or hardware, therefore we don't have any bias for or against any vendor or technology. We just tell it like it is and do not try to influence you one way or the other when it comes to making decisions about technology.

[NOTE: The cost estimations made are for single product list prices, not site or enterprise licenses.]

CIF Scorecard

The focus of this effort is scoring your product with respect to the CIF enterprise framework. This framework provides your customers with a complete view of your value proposition. Our scoring methodology provides a complete analysis of your cost/benefits effect in the CIF. The CIF Scorecard is our model for measuring the impact of IT on the enterprise.

These are our primary engagement areas and are often customized for our private clients.