SQL Server Data Integration Services
Delivering a Consolidated View of Your Data
The process of sourcing and consolidating data from disparate systems, preparing it for decision making and structuring it in a way that is not only consistent across the business but enables efficient processing and upkeep, can be time consuming and a drain on internal IT resources. Many data warehouse initiatives settle for second-best when it comes to true data integration, opting for short-term, tactical approaches which can become costly high-maintenance systems that are difficult to develop further.
Our team of Microsoft BI Consultants can merge all your disparate data sources into a one single source of data for use in your enterprise SQL data warehouse, data store and business intelligence system. We use industry leading methodologies to deliver truly robust and scalable solutions for our customers.
Seasoned, SQL ETL Experts
As Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform Partners, our team of certified Microsoft BI Consultants can assist with the design and development of automated ETL processes to extract data and transform it from any database or system ready for processing. We have experience working with most major ERP, CRM, web and other operational systems. We use Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services to build a data flow and apply transformations to the data as it makes its way from legacy systems into the SQL Server database being used as the foundation layer for the data warehouse. Large data volumes are also not an issue we’ve handled extremely large data sources for many big financial services and retail clients, speeding up processing time workloads and BI tools.
Microsoft SQL Server ETL HealthCheck
A data warehouse is never static for long, there are always new requirements to meet, new projects to deliver, new reports to develop, new business problems to solve. Add new developers joining the team, contractors coming and going, various vendors responsible for different projects and the result can be an increasingly fractured and diluted ETL architecture.
A disciplined, cohesive ETL architecture and framework is an essential foundation for the ongoing health of your SQL data warehouse investment. If development diverges from this, the result can be a data warehouse that is difficult and costly to maintain and troubleshoot, increasingly hard to enhance and develop while being almost impossible to audit.
Inside Info have experience integrating data from many and multiple sources to provide the following integration services listed below. We can also provide an assessment of your current SQL environment as part of our SQL Integration Services HealthCheck. Key service areas we deliver and review are:
- Microsoft SQL Integration Services configuration, scalability and upgrade paths
- The ETL framework and standards
- Creation of consistent application of standards and conventions
- The effective and efficient use of staging areas
- Development and testing repositories and promotion methodologies
- Exception handling, scheduling and error trapping
- Component design and reusability
- Logical and physical data model design, effectiveness and best practice
- Management of hierarchical and reference data (master data management)
- Metadata management and data dictionaries
We build and evaluate against known industry best practice and our experiences to provide realistic recommendations that can be implemented.
