Our services are focused primarily on managing, designing, developing and implementing software and hardware solutions for the Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Business Analytics domain.   Companies seek the leadership we can provide and are genuinely surprised at how confidently we welcome and overcome any challenge. Most often, our clients request our consultants to fill the key pivotal positions for the project such as Project Manager, Application Architect, Lead Analyst, Lead Developer, Testing Coordinator and Data Architect. The consultants for Elite Solutions possess the proven abilities and the versatility to do whatever is required to deliver the project successfully. The following matrix provides a sample of the services organized by the typical phases of the project life-cycle.

Project Management	Infrastructure Implementation Management – Technical management services of activities to implement the physical infrastructure for a project such as facilities build-out, cabling/connectivity, installation and configuration of server, storage/SAN and network components. Coordinate the activities of facilities personnel, external vendors and engineering staff, provide quality assurance for the solution and manage the timeline and cost aspects of the project. Application Development Process Management - Management of the entire life-cycle of the application development process including the phases for requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. Effectively track the activities of internal and external staff members, vendors and business groups. Functional Test Management – Management of the process to develop a cohesive and comprehensive test strategy across a number of application teams, vendors and business groups for a project. Opportunity Evaluation – Leadership of the efforts to identify and develop the business case for a project, and effectively measure the cost and benefit factors to fully evaluate the opportunity and complete a thorough feasibility study. Assist your organizations to produce project proposals, financial projections and other necessary deliverables to prepare the potential project for the approval process. Release Strategic Planning – Management and leadership for the process to organize complex projects into manageable releases, each with clear objectives, deliverables and timelines.
Architecture	Infrastructure Design – Collaborate efforts with facilities and engineering staff to design the specifications of components, schematic for cabling and connectivity, configuration of switches/components and implementation of security and data transport frameworks. Data Architecture - Assessment of data requirements for a solution and development of effective operational, dimensional or analytical data models to support those requirements. ETL Framework Architecture - Design of an ETL framework that flexibly and effectively captures and transforms information for a data warehouse. Utilize an already approved tool set for a client or assist the client with the evaluation and identification of the most appropriate tool set. Analytics Infrastructure – Design and configuration of the application infrastructure to support analytic functions for business groups. Utilize an already approved tool set for a client or assist the client with the evaluation and identification of the most appropriate tool set. Reporting Framework – Leadership of efforts to design the framework to support business intelligence reporting against a data warehouse alongside external vendors, application teams and engineering staff. Solution Proof-of-concept – Assessment and evaluation of product sets for a solution and leadership of efforts to design, develop, execute and document proof-of-concepts.
Analysis, Design and Development	Requirements Gathering - Analysis services to identify and gather requirements with business groups and liaise with application groups to ensure clarity and comprehensiveness of requirements. ETL Application Design and Development – Design and development services for the granular ETL program components of a data warehouse application utilizing the approved product set for a client. Reporting Design and Development – Design and development services for the metadata layer and reporting framework for the solution. Physical Database Implementation and Management – Physical implementation services for the data model and management of the environment throughout the development, testing and deployment phases. Application and Data Migration Services – Leadership of efforts to create and execute migration strategies to transfer legacy applications and their associated data to new architectures and product sets.
Testing and Deployment	Integration Test Planning and Execution – Leadership of efforts to create and execute an integrated test plan across applications and vendors. User Acceptance Test Planning and Execution – Collaborative development and execution of a plan with business groups to obtain user acceptance of a solution. Deployment Strategies and Application Packaging – Services to inventory components, develop a deployment plan and develop deployment packages of application components. Incident Management – Implementation of tools, methods and protocols to effectively track defects and incidents throughout the testing and deployment phases.
Post-Deployment	Project Assessment - Services to objectively assess the project’s effectiveness in delivering on its stated objectives. Inventory gaps and issues and assist with the creation and execution of strategy to address those points. Performance Monitoring – Services to measure and monitor the performance and feasibility of the physical infrastructure and application frameworks. Develop strategies to address concerns and issues.