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Solution Requirements

Business

The Challenge

  • Business users don't understand their data
  • Information is power "Its distribution is threatening"
  • New information, or new views, changes requirements
  • Timeliness is everything "Yesterday's issues are meaningless today."

The Needs

  • Involve business to:
    • Confirm solutions
    • Change their mind
  • Rapid development through automation
  • No penalties for rework
  • Return control of data and distribution to the business

ETL

The Challenge

  • Data from disparate systems doesn't match
  • Cross systems business rules difficult to model
  • Dirty data blows out exception handling
  • Users change their mind
  • Upstream systems constantly change

The Needs

  • Capture business rules once
  • Allow users to prototype inside the ETL process
  • Automate the process
    • Maintaining the rules
    • Defining the transforms
    • Defining the target environment
  • Provide capacity for rework

Project

The Challenge

  • Development program midstream
  • Fixed price contract
  • Existing tool sets
  • Existing development partners
  • Cost constrained project
  • Project schedule pressure

The Needs

  • No upfront investment
  • Fixed price
  • Reduce development schedules
  • Reduce cost and time for work packages
  • Provide alternate approaches