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Operational Reporting System Launch

Forestasia recently completed the implementation of an operational reporting solution for a large client. The project was very challenging given the dubious architecture and constantly changing database schema of the operational system from which the data was being sourced, but the client was happy with the final product which is the main thing.

Operational Reporting System Launch

We are happy to report that a major enhancement to a client's existing enterprise data warehouse went live today. The enhancement saw the addition of insurance claim information to the existing content which provided the client the ability to calculate profitability and a variety of other key operational effectiveness metrics, greatly enhancing the value to the organisation of the warehouse.

Temporal data warehouse

For the last couple of months we have been converting a traditional "truncate and load" approach data warehouse capable of showing history from today's perspective only into a true temporal system capable of reproducing history and reporting outputs as they appeared at any given point in time. This is an important compliance requirement for the client, and one that has been challenging to retrofit to an existing production system with an active user base without disrupting existing functionality or reporting outputs. The new functionality went live today.

Data Warehouse launch

The end of April marked the successful release of an enterprise data warehouse into production that Forestasia has been working on for one of our large clients. The initial release delivered an enterprise warehouse architecture, infrastructure, data model, and the first segment of accurate and reconciled reporting data over the course of what was a very aggressive three month project schedule.

Project Audit

Occasionally some of our clients elect to verify the quality of the technical solutions we are providing via an independent technical audit.

This week Forestasia received a favourable report from a technical audit of a data warehouse system we are implementing for a client.

Some highlights from the report include:

• "The solution is well architected from an application design perspective."
• "... technology stack with all the key components expected of a sophisticated BI solution."
• "... has built quite strong data quality principles which will benefit in improving the quality of data in the source systems/ business processes longer term."
• "... the design is elegant from an application development perspective."

The audit report was well received by the client, and provided the project team with some well deserved praise from an independent technical expert.