Smart Data Provisioning for the Microsoft Azure Cloud

SAAS Automation, delivering the right data to the right people at the right time

TrueCue: Addressing business challenges A recent Gartner study reported that the number of data and analytics experts in business units will grow at three times the rate of experts in IT departments in 2020, forcing the responsibility and ownership of data projects to lie with the Business, rather than IT.

Business units will therefore need to play a much more integral role in the management of their TO USE data, if they want to harness the true value of EASY UI their data assets. However, rapidly unlocking this value is the main challenge increasingly being faced, with many organisations struggling with

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and manage their own data warehouse, without the need of a technical team, the TrueCue platform acts as their foundation for high value A T analytics. Automating the process of integrating R A T E D I D disparate data sources from systems, silos and M U D G E C E external sources into a single source of the E AT IN TO TH M LL data truth, the TrueCue Platform provides clean, V E AUTO E AL OD governed data directly to the decision makers, so UE M that information can become insightful far more quickly, affordably and confidently. The traditional way: The traditional approach to achieving clean, conformed and governed business-wide data has always been to build a data warehouse. However, data warehouse (DW) building has always suffered from the sluggish development of complex data extract, transformation and loading (ETL) processes into predefined and restrictive data models, on top of over-specified hardware infrastructure. This can result in exorbitant costs, and considerable time delays, before delivering any real value.

Once delivered, many DWs require ongoing updates in order to evolve and expand their scope or service offering. This is usually the result of business ambiguity or new reporting requirements, which requires more time and resource to develop or change data models and BAU data load processes. All of this work would have to be carried out by an overstretched IT team, meaning potentially months of delays before changes could be implemented.

The TrueCue way: The age of waiting months for an overburdened IT to deliver data warehousing solutions is over. Today, businesses expect agile implementation, near real time delivery of changes and demand self-service capability from their solutions. Data warehousing solutions are not an exception. TrueCue is a fully managed, smart data provisioning platform built for the cloud. It massively accelerates the delivery and maintenance of consolidated business data, using a no code approach. This data is then made available in self-optimising models to allow you to connect your BI/Analytics tool of choice. Using its intuitive browser-based portal, TrueCue The TrueCue enables non-technical staff to bring their data Platform simplifies into the cloud and create a business focused data model using its AI-led assisted model inference and accelerates the engine. Automated data quality validation checks, design and build of customisable business data rules and full data audit ensure that data issues are identified, and data a new Cloud Data owners notified whenever data is uploaded and Warehouse whilst processed. improving the time to TrueCue is a SaaS solution built exclusively on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Therefore, it seamlessly scales value for analytically elastically to deal with changing workloads, providing driven business optimal performance and cost effectiveness. leaders. With TrueCue, EVERY customer can achieve an enterprise-grade data warehouse fully architected, designed and deployed within days or weeks. Challenges addressed Benefits provided by TrueCue by TrueCue

Creating insight and value from integrating and Time to value 10x faster with 8x less cost consolidating multiple data sources into a single trusted repository while ensuring the quality of data Easily define and automatically deploy changes or with auditing and logging capabilities expand your data provisioning instantly in an agile manner with no coding Improving poor time to value of traditional data warehouse approaches given the significant Reduce time to value through an intuitive UI that time and cost of building and delivering data assists the creation of the business data model, all warehousing projects data pipelines and data quality validations

Handling the complexity of changing analytics Adaptive, self-optimising data models designed for requirements in an agile manner analytics ensures optimal performance

Removing the difficulties of managing infrastructure Provides a scalable and cost-effective cloud updates, scalability and cost consumption model in which you pay only for what you need given the dynamic performance and data Difficulties in handling large teams of highly storage requirements of your workloads technical individuals to build and manage data platforms Only requires non-technical staff to use TrueCue

The need to invest in expensive hardware or worry Provides a reliable data-as-a-service cloud platform about how and when to retire on site servers

Use cases

Agile Data Data Internal Data Warehouse Warehouse as a Service Creation Optimisation (enterprise-wide (, (performance, shared reliable consolidation and off-load, expansion, data source) exploration) migration)

Data Warehouse creation Data Warehouse Providing a Agile build of a new data optimization data-as-a-service platform warehouse in the cloud Quick and easy migration or off- Consolidate data from multiple load of an existing data warehouse sources into a single platform in into the cloud the cloud to be shared across the enterprise

On-demand 360 Crowd-Source Data Blending Views your Data (agile PoC (customer, patient, (collect valuable and forensic product, etc.) data from arround investigation) your business)

Spinning up a forensic Building a 360 view TrueCue provides a governed data collection web portal for people Data Warehouse Integrate and consolidate your data to submit and validate their data, from multiple sources to provide a Quickly and easily integrate a receiving instant data suitability related contained subset of data for feedback and detailed data quality data-driven 360 view of an entity on-demand analysis or proof-of- analysis to ensure the data submitted concept is fit for purpose. Key features

Ease of use and Automated data model Adaptive, self-optimising speed to value design, generation and data models designed for enhancement analytics

Automated data Pay-as-you-need Scale up and down load pipelines consumption-based to deal with evolving subscription workloads

Automated data Automated Crowd-source business quality validation and documentation

Manage your whole Enterprise-grade Azure data No-code approach process through the platform design TrueCue portal

Fully SaaS data Secure-by-design provisioning platform in the cloud

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About Concentra Analytics

TrueCue is part of the Concentra Group, and offers high value analytical consultancy underpinned by its cutting-edge technology platform. Its newly launched smart data warehouse automation platform is designed for business analytics in the cloud, while the Services team offer end-to-end consultancy in Data Management, Data Visualisation, and Analytics Enablement. TrueCue is a Microsoft Gold Partner, a Tableau Gold Partner, and an Alteryx Premier Partner.

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