Enterprise Information Management

We understand that effective information management involves more than just collecting and storing data. We work with our clients to treat data like any other asset. Our clients recognize that effective management and leveraging of data can produce real competitive advantages for their organizations. Whether it’s improved innovation, operational excellence, or insights into their customers, data is the life blood, facilitating transactions, enabling the management of processes, and producing the grounding for decision making.

Our clients turn to us for help in developing creative, pragmatic solutions to the challenges of managing and leveraging their information assets. They trust SEI to help them address all aspects of data and information management. Certainly that means helping them address the technology challenges. It also means helping devise the practices and teams necessary to manage and use the enterprise’s data.

Our service offerings address the full lifecycle of information management. We offer assistance with:

Data Acquisition

Transactional systems and interfaces with your business partners are the entry points for data, into your business. We work with you to develop pragmatic solutions for ensuring you capture the data you need, not just to support daily transacting, but the downstream analytic and assessment activities that result from them, as well.

• On-Line/Transactional database design
• Management of Batch Acquisition of data from vendors, customers, or otherwise externally acquired data

Data Integration/Reuse/Sharing

Once data is in circulation, like any other asset, it needs to be managed. We work with you to develop both technology solutions and practices that make sure data is secured, tracked, cleansed, enriched, understood, and available to the appropriate systems and people at the appropriate time. Practices we provide help in include:

• Data Quality Practice and Process Design
• Metadata Management
• Master Data Management
• Data Warehouse Architecture and Design
• Dimensional Modeling
• ETL
• Application Data Integration
• Data Governance

Information Packaging and Distribution

It is easy to get lost in all of the data and repositories of data that an organization can produce. Turning raw data into actionable information, insights, and alerts are the focus of our Information Packaging and Distribution practices. These practices ensure that knowledge works have the information they need at their fingertips, as part of their daily work routines. Specifically, we provide assistance with:

• Performance Management
• Balanced Scorecards
• Reporting, Analytics, Briefing Books, and Dashboarding
• Six Sigma Support
• Data and Information Distribution

Achieving success requires an approach that is not bound by lack of imagination, lack of experience, or an inability to appreciate the subtleties of a specific situation. We use our proven frameworks to assess our clients’ objectives, technologies, practices, and teams. Our frameworks and our practices are more than just theories. We have put them to the test. We have refined and improved them with every engagement and with every client situation we have encountered. Our frameworks are NOT rigid, one-size fits all methodologies or solutions, but rather tools we use to ensure the solution fits the situation, and that we leverage solutions and learnings that have worked before, while tailoring our recommendations to your specific situation.

We have applied our frameworks and practices to lead the development of information strategy and architecture for clients who are managing hundreds of terabytes of data, servicing thousands of users and applications. We have also used them as the basis of design for departmental dashboards and reporting systems.

Innovation. Vision. Pragmatism. An uncommon appreciation for our customers’ situation. An unparalleled ability to execute. We have built these capabilities in our team, so we can help your team.