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Enterprise Data Management (EDM) defines how data is uniformly managed and made accessible and useable across an organization. Increased accuracy and rapid availability of data result in better decision-making. Cost savings result from spending less time correcting errors and resolving data conflicts. Savings also come from eliminating needless duplication of data and processes.

Our enterprise data management practice enables our clients to unlock the tremendous value often hidden or inaccessible within your data. We rebuild or modify siloed systems, modify legacy systems, and develop new solutions to automate manual processes.

CRGT enterprise data management support includes:

• Identifying critical business processes
• Inventory preparation
• Identifying data collected and how stored
• Preparation of reports of findings

Data Management

Tremendous amounts of data are created and collected by organizations in the course of operations. This data often is stored in many silos of information, ranging from databases to spreadsheets to data marts to enterprise data warehouses. A central repository often is not the solution. Studies show that more than 50 percent of data warehouse projects have limited acceptance or are outright failures because of data quality issues. An enterprise data management project is often a long-term exercise, and in many cases is never completed across the entire enterprise. CRGT avoids these pitfalls with our initial focus on

• Highest priority issues that will provide the largest ROI
• Important issues that can be resolved relatively quickly so that the enterprise, especially key stakeholders, soon see improvements

Our extensive experience with EDM includes support to one of the largest and most complex organizations in the U.S., the United States Postal Service, which we have been supporting for more than 12 years. From this experience, we understand that EDM requires alignment among multiple stakeholders who need to understand and support the objectives.

We begin our EDM process with a thorough understanding of the requirements of end users and of the organization as a whole. Managing stakeholder requirements is a critical ongoing process, based on understanding an organization’s workflow, data dependencies, data transformation rules, and tolerance for operational disruption. In determining these requirements, we:

• Identify the most critical business processes
• Prepare an inventory of existing systems, assessing the degree to which each one is integrated or functions independently
• Identify the data collected and how/where it is stored
• Prepare a report of our findings, along with a Strategic Plan which includes recommendations for data stewardship, ownership, governance, and quality, along with integration of data across the enterprise in accordance with standards, effecting data transformation and the use of data models

Following acceptance of the Strategic Plan, we work with the enterprise as needed for implementation.

For more information on how we can help meet your Enterprise Data Management challenges contact us at info@crgt.com.