Services
Chris Adamson offers a spectrum of data warehousing services, including strategic planning, design services and on-site education.
Working with Chris provides a powerful learning experience for your team, and he strives to ensure that his continued presence is not required once the project is complete.
For customers who do not require his full-time involvement, he also provides consultative services.
Strategy and Planning
Chris develops data warehousing plans that are substantive and “fluff-free.” His planning services can be performed at the enterprise-level or within a specific subject area, as determined by your priorities.
Working with people from all parts of your business, Chris produces a prioritized roadmap that reflects your business and technical objectives.
Deliverables communicate to two key audiences in clear and understandable terms: system capability for the business audience and technical complexity for the IT audience.
In addition to prioritized project definitions, Chris provides a detailed dimensional design which is mapped to source system data. This ensures you plan is achievable, and that individual implementations will be compatible.
Design Services
Chris follows the same approach when developing subject-area solutions, helping you develop data marts that are powerful and effective. He engages executives, business users and technical personnel to define scope, identify requirements, design dimensional schemas and map them to source system data.
Chris also helps you identify resource requirements, and works with your software vendors and integrators to get the most out of your solution.
Modifying an existing system can be far more challenging than developing something from scratch. Chris approaches solution enhancement and package customization with his characteristic pragmatism, applying his expertise maximize business benefit in the least obtrusive manner possible.
Chris will help you set and manage scope, design enhancements, and organize the development activity so that things get done smoothly and efficiently.
Onsite Education
Chris Adamson teaches dimensional design at industry conferences, and offers on-site courses in partnership with The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). He is a dynamic and engaging presenter, and has taught dimensional design to thousands of students world-wide. Chris adapts his material to the skill level of your team.
Consultative Services
Chris offers consultative services for customers who do not need his full-time involvement. You can use Chris for design reviews, or focus his expertise on a specific design challenge, performance issue or other concern.
Strategy and Planning
- Requirements Definition
- Dimensional Design and Conformance Plan
- Project Definition and Prioritization
- Data Sourcing
Design Services
- New Development
- Package Customization
- Solution Enhancement
Onsite Education
- Star Schema Design and Data Warehouse Implementation
- All skill levels
Consultative Services
- Design reviews
- Specific modeling challenges