The Challenges of Data Consolidation

As companies grow and mergers and acquisitions occur, businesses are left with a dizzying array of data sources.

Without considering a data consolidation project, managing multiple data sources can lead to:

  • Slower and slower response times to customer requests.
  • Increasing challenge of keeping educated staff to operate.
  • Continuing licensing costs to maintain.
  • Misalignment with your current, more modern architecture.

Organizations are now looking to provide seamless access throughout the corporation for data stored in multiple data repositories and are also looking to reduce the operational expense attributed to owning and supporting multiple disparate applications. Combining repositories into fewer, manageable data sources is the goal of data consolidation.

While this all sounds good, data consolidation is a time-consuming and resource-intensive effort.

Data Consolidation Solutions from Xenos

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions can help with data consolidation initiatives. These solutions extract information from a variety of data sources, transform that data into a common format, and finally load the resulting data into a single data store, or warehouse.

Over the past 20+ years, Xenos has become experts at transformation, a key component of ETL. Levering this experience, our Professional Services team help you make the move, and assist you with your data consolidation project.

Our data consolidation projects are staffed by subject-matter experts. Our data consolidation projects typically consist of several stages; developing content management models to repurpose information assets locked in disparate, incompatible archives, transforming them to a common format, as selected by you to meet your business requirements, loading these assets into a common archive and building your consolidated archive.