Snowflake and Apps Associates

Define your roadmap for data management to inform and bolster company decision making

• With Organizations using multiple application source systems (Oracle ERP Systems, Salesforce, Spreadsheet, Planning & Budgeting tools), the need for a strategy to measure the performance with clearly defined objectives and goals is of foremost importance
• We work with you to define the strategy which will include identifying the data source for dimensions and for calculating the needed metrics with a goal of maintaining a warehouse that represents the single source of truth
• KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are critical to your success. We work with you to create KPIs that support the stated goals and objectives as well as track performance measurements

• Data growth will happen. We plan for the appropriate technology and architecture that can scale for future growth in data and also enable predictive analysis
• The right visualization tool will drive employee productivity by allowing users to extract and analyze data needed to run business operations. We make sure you select the right fit for your organization
• Bringing it all together, priorities are aligned to the goals and the implementation rollout of the related metrics to bring your new Analysis to life

• Identification of the key metrics that would make a difference in measuring the performance of your organization
• Create an executive-level dashboard after inputs from key business stakeholders
• Recommend strategy and approach to leverage the right enterprise business intelligence solution for your organization

• Provide framework to enable end users to create their own reports with graphics
• Create reports by combining your structured and semi-structured data sets

Expand your ability to process an increasing amount of data with the flexibility to scale, compute and store in the cloud

• Extract and load structured data from Oracle ERP systems and other source systems (Salesforce, Workday) using your preferred ETL tool (Talend, Informatica)
• Load semi-structured enterprise data (Budget/Planning, Marketing) stored in JSON, XML, Avro and that is maintained outside the ERP systems
• Perform data transformation within Snowflake
• Store all your structured ERP and semi-structured external data in the Snowflake data lake for easier access and insights into the data

• Run queries and generate reports using structured data along with semi-structured data sets
• Setup secure access to the objects with Role level security
• Manage & clone Instances
• User management, security and account administration
• Visibility into the cost, data growth and usage
• Migration from non-Snowflake data warehouses to Snowflake

• Manage Business Intelligence environments
• Monitor ETL jobs and help with resolution
• Address issues identified with ETL jobs and reports

• System administration required to manage access to objects through roles
• Create clones and share access to warehouses
• Work with software vendors for support with product bugs