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Case Study: Financial Services Company Transforms Data Strategy to Deliver Daily Reporting Drives ROI Exceeding $250K

A private financial services company known for its diverse range of investment strategies and a reputation for discreet and personalized wealth management services. With a history of success, they offer solutions to high-net-worth individuals and institutions seeking to grow and protect their assets through both traditional and alternative investments.

 

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Case Study: Oil & Gas Company Transformative Journey Transitioning to a Streamlined, Technology-Driven Approach

Founded post-World War I, the American Oil Company emerged to supply petroleum for the burgeoning internal combustion engine era. Over the years, the company evolved marked by growth and diversity, the company focuses on customer-centric goals, offering high-quality products and custom solutions. With a commitment to excellence, the oil and gas company actively grows its fleet, inventory, and facilities, embodying a dedication to delivering exceptional service daily.

 

Case Study: Equipment Rental Industry Leader Transforms Legacy Challenges into Future Success

A leading player in the equipment rental industry, this company boasts a vast and diverse inventory catering to the ever-evolving needs of businesses. Renowned for its commitment to quality and reliability, it stands as a go-to resource for construction, industrial, and commercial projects. With a customer-centric approach and an expansive network, this industry stalwart continues to redefine excellence in equipment rental, empowering businesses to thrive with the right tools for the job.

Case Study: Driving real-time actionable insights and reporting efficiencies for Institutional Research

Many colleges and universities face challenges in data management as they handle vast amounts of information related to students, faculty, finances, and operations. With the increasing digitization of records and the growth of online education, institutions often grapple with issues like data security, integration of various systems, and maintaining data accuracy while striving to fulfill timely regulatory and board reporting requirements.

These struggles arise from adapting to evolving technologies, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations (FERPA, etc.), and streamlining processes for efficient data utilization. Additionally, the complexity of managing diverse data sources, such as student information systems, research databases, and financial records, poses a significant hurdle.

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Case Study: Automating Data Model Creation and Centralized Access Control

A leading waste management and environmental services company in the United States offering services such as collection, recycling, transfer, and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste and recyclable materials focused on sustainability. The company serves various industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and government agencies, and recently expanded its footprint in the environmental services sector to enhance its capabilities in managing hazardous waste (e.g. radiological, biological, etc.), disaster cleanup, and specialized environmental solutions. The company now offers a more diversified platform to address the evolving needs of customers and regulatory requirements in waste management and environmental protection.

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Case Study: Enhanced Data Protection and Functionality, Strengthening Data Security

A leading force in the realm of engineering and technology, the company is a product of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. Leveraging a track record marked by pioneering solutions, this company has earned widespread recognition for its contributions to the advancement of engineering practices and scientific research. Through its steadfast commitment to excellence, this organization continues to redefine possibilities and inspire breakthroughs on a global scale.

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Case Study: Streamlining Student Enrollment and Marketing ROI with Data Solutions

A higher education institution committed to delivering accessible, high-quality education to adult learners faced significant challenges in student enrollment, marketing ROI, and effective data management. The school, which operates 100% online, caters primarily to adult learners.

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Case Study: Building a Data Warehouse

US Ecology is a company on an upward growth curve as a result of numerous industry acquisitions. They maintain a leading global position in toxic waste management, perpetual nuclear waste storage, and environmental restoration and clean-up services. Their business units and department leaders desired to be more data-driven in their analysis and decision processes.

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Case Study: TeraData to Snowflake in 99 days 

Micron is a global semiconductor manufacturer that build roughly a third of the world’s memory.  In their hi-tech manufacturing process, tiny variances cause costly declines in quality and product yield.  To remain competitive, constant innovation is a necessity.   The same goes for both their product and their IT capabilities.

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Case Study: Data Security in Schools

West Ada School District is responsible for ensuring that their staff members have the information they need to support the children in their care while simultaneously protecting student privacy by providing no more information than each staff member needs to know. 

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Worlds’ Largest Commerical Data Vault

Our Principal, Mike Magalsky, helped to build the world’s largest data vault. It was 10 trillion rows and grew daily by about 50 billion rows. 

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Legos for Data Management 

Legos for Data Management 

To meet the insatiable demand for data and analytic solutions, teams must innovate to become faster, clean, lean, and consistent in their data management practices. Looking for patterns to modularize the components of a data pipeline and creating a consumable...

Liberate Your Data, Don’t Isolate It!

Liberate Your Data, Don’t Isolate It!

In times of uncertainty, tendencies are to isolate and restrict access. This goes for our personal lives and applies to our organizations... especially when sensitive information is in play. However, maybe we should consider a radical, alternative approach. Realizing...

September Snow Day: Knowing When to Pivot

September Snow Day: Knowing When to Pivot

Knowing when to hold and when to fold is a crucial skill, not only in life's adventures but also in preparing your business for better data-driven insights using data warehouse and advanced analytics like artificial intelligence.    Let me share a personal experience...

WhereScape 3D DV deployment in Red Repository

WhereScape 3D DV deployment in Red Repository

This document explains the complete command line example code to automate the wherescape 3d XML mode deployment to red repository through the scheduler by using the batch script. (If you know what this means, congratulations! 🙂 Wherescape 3d DV Model Automation...

When “IT” doesn’t come naturally

When “IT” doesn’t come naturally

I participated in the Society’s Process Consulting Training course at just the right moment. My professional life, previously so successful and smooth-flowing, hit an unexpected bump when my decades-long employment came to an end. Undeterred, I started my own company...

WhereScape Release 2022 New Features 

WhereScape Release 2022 New Features 

Wherescape December “DevOps” release , this includes new Metadata Ingestion, Model Test Automation workflows, Merge and Compare options, and Performance tweaks PLUS the official launch of Where scape Enablement Packs along with new File Parser...

All you need is Love… and Automation

All you need is Love… and Automation

It’s Valentine’s Day! At the risk of being corny, we’re going to write about love.  Which is harder to find? A lifelong relationship or a fantastic data engineer. There are so many opportunities to transform data into practical decision-making in 2022. As such,...

Know what’s Cooler than Magic?

Know what’s Cooler than Magic?

Spoiler Alert:  Well, just a one-liner rather; not a plot spoiler at all.  So read on without fear…  🙂 Our family took in the new Spider-Man movie this week.  A good flick it was, we all agreed.  It includes one of my new favorite movie...

Unwrapping WhereScape Red

Unwrapping WhereScape Red

Part of what makes WhereScape Red such a powerful tool is how it treats metadata. The metadata is used to drive every component of WhereScape Red's GUI and often that is sufficient for business needs. However!Moving beyond the GUI and opening up the WhereScape Red...

High Water Mark Loads

High Water Mark Loads

High-Water Mark Loading is a way to optimize your load strategy. Some data sources will have a column such as "update" or "effective" which can be relied on to track when data in the table has been inserted or changed. It is possible to track the latest entry (aka...

Part 3: What is Information – Implications

Part 3: What is Information – Implications

We want to thank Certus for their guest blog. Part 3 in a 3-part series on revisiting the definition of Information.   In this third blog post in a three-part series, we’re exploring the implications of both the definition of information and the...

Part 2: What is Information – Laws of Nature

Part 2: What is Information – Laws of Nature

We want to thank Certus for their guest blog.  Part 2 in a 3-part series on revisiting the definition of Information.   In this second blog post in a three-part series, we’re exploring the connection between Laws of Nature and...

What is Information? – A Much Needed Revisit

What is Information? – A Much Needed Revisit

We want to thank Certus for their guest blog. Part 1 in a 3-part series on the Laws of Nature for Information.   Every so often it is useful to stop and re-examine our previous ideas and understanding. When we considered some of the challenges faced by the Information...

Automated Record Tracking Satellites

Automated Record Tracking Satellites

A crucial component of any Data Vault is making sure there is a way to identify when data is no longer current. For data sources without a form of inbuilt change tracking, Record Tracking Satellites are going to be required. A Record Tracking Satellite compares...

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