At Smart Associates we live and breathe data. We help our customers move, manage, and derive value from their data.

Data warehouses have long been vital for modern data-driven enterprises – being today as essential as their accounting systems. But they change, as business changes, as technology moves on, as new challenges and opportunities arise. One such challenge is the IBM PureData for Analytics / Netezza platform reaching end of support by IBM. Smart Associates has been helping many customers extend the life of their legacy Netezza system(s) and now has added Netezza Performance Server for Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to its support portfolio along with many innovative performance management and business governance tools.

Data warehouse technology and approaches have moved through many phases, and for organisations, the variety of architecture options can be confusing (the vocabulary of jargon perhaps even more bewildering). And costly or disappointing if the wrong choices are made. Today, perhaps the key decisions are about cloud data warehouse versus on-premise, or a combination in a hybrid data warehouse approach.

Migrating a data warehouse to the cloud has many advantages of cost management, scalability and elasticity. But managing data warehouse migrations can be fraught with risk and cost, and full of unexpected traps to trip the unwary. The devil can definitely be in the detail.

So organisations must plan and manage their data warehouse roadmaps with due care, modernising to stay competitive while, in parallel, extracting maximum value from current systems with best practice support methods.

For our customers, staying on top of change has helped them to develop new capabilities, avoid unnecessary costs, keep customers, increase sales, and in one case, even improve health outcomes.

Smart Associates has the knowledge, the tools and solid, practical, no-nonsense experience to help organisations at every stage of the data warehouse lifecycle.

We can help you with planning and design, and with product selection. We can build, migrate and support your data warehouse. We understand all aspects of data warehousing – commercial and technical; hardware and software; on-premise, cloud or hybrid.

We work with enterprises in telecoms, finance, insurance, retail, health, government and other sectors. And we have the presence to deliver globally, having done so in Europe, North and Central America, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

So whatever your data warehouse requirements, or whatever questions you have, we look forward to hearing from you! Contact us here.