Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence is a natural progression to the technical services offered by VA Associates. Most of the On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) systems, both custom developed as well as Commercial Off The Shelf, tend to provide operational systems of record. The opportunity to leverage the information from such systems is best realized in data warehouses that are organized with a functional and subject-oriented organization to provide actionable information for both tactical operations personnel as well as strategic senior executive staff.

VA Associates provides design and development experience in Data Warehouse design using

• Dimensional Modeling - Star, Snowflake and Hybrid
• 3NF modeling
• Data Architecture and Metadata Management
• Extract, Transform and Load desgin
• Data Warehouse Maintenance Window Mangement
• Query Design
• Tool Evaluation and Selection

VA Associates also brings to bear its Oracle Professional Services to leverage

• New features in the database aimed at Data Warehousing
• On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) functions built into the database
• New SQL extensions
• Oracle Warehouse Builder
• Oracle Discoverer
• Business Intelligence Beans

VA Associates incremental and iterative methodology is aimed a frequent deliverables that are fit for business purpose producing results convergent with organizational priorities.