Case Study / Orco

Data warehouse and multiple systems integration

The project that we completed for the ORCO real estate development company resulted in a new central data warehouse and functionality for migrating data from several legacy systems in different companies acquired by the Group.
Orco Property Group is an investor, developer and asset manager in the Central European real estate and hospitality market. Operating in Central Europe since 1991, Orco currently manages assets worth approx. EUR 2 billion.

"WE HAVE BEEN COOPERATING WITH MEMOS SOFTWARE FOR SEVERAL YEARS ALREADY. I highly value their input in creating our data warehouses. I can gladly confirm they are a solid and reliable supplier to our company and they represent a guarantee of delivering the expected quality level and meeting all requirements placed by Orco Group. Lucie Nmekov, ORCO Property Group

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What were the clients needs?

Owing to a high number of acquisitions, ORCO adopted many legacy systems from different companies and needed to evaluate data across a number of heterogeneous systems in order to work with complete statistical data. ORCO asked our company to create a coherent, well integrated data warehouse.

What did we offer to our client?

Our proposed solution was to create a new data warehouse built on a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database platform. The first important task for us was to build pre-specified structures for database tables and populate them with actual data retrieved from various accounting systems. In this phase we set up data pumps for periodical data replication into common structures. During the development phase of the new data warehouse, the client presented additional requirements for the final functionality. Among these the most important were: creating a time and attendance system introducing a transaction reconciliation model, i.e. the capability to pair transactions between companies within ORCO Group

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The second requirement is of crucial importance, since Axapta was intended to become one of the enterprise-wide accounting systems to be used across the Group.

How did the analysis proceed?

As a result of regular weekly workshops with users, we were able to gather information as valuable input for creating a custom application tailored to meet the clients specific needs and requirements.

Application design principles

In a situation where a heterogeneous environment is inherent within the company, the practicable counter-measure is to create a central data warehouse which ensures regular updating with use of data pumps. The advantage of this concept is proven through reliable maintenance of data consistency between companies and different systems, and the added possibility for installing extensions in the form of web (or other) applications.

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Conclusion
In certain cases where the implementation of a uniform information system would have a significant impact on the budget as well as on employees time, the data warehouse implementation could be a highly recommended and efficient option. It is not essential to modify existing and well-functioning systems data captured from different systems will be consolidated into the data warehouse, which is a procedure ensuring continuous data consistency and standard reporting across the organization. The whole concept represents an implementation process covered at a fraction of the cost normally needed for heterogeneous system unification into one enterprise information system.