Learning Care Group Uses WhereScape RED to Quickly Deploy New Information Delivery Platform for Business Intelligence and Analytics

The nation's second largest childcare provider rapidly integrated multiple M&A data sources; Will present its agile data warehousing use case at the TDWI Executive Summit

WhereScape’s products are used in every kind of business intelligence project found in today’s commercial environment: from normal-form enterprise data warehouses and data vaults, through user access layers and tiers of dependent data marts, to standalone data marts and reporting systems.On Tuesday, August 9 from 9:00am – 10:00am PT, Ahmad Malik, Learning Care Group's Director of IT Application Services, will detail LCG's agile data warehouse development use case, Agile Data Warehousing in Support of Learning Care Group Children, at the TDWI Executive Summit in San Diego, CA. In his presentation, Malik, who has more than 15 years of hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining ERP, CRM, data warehousing and BI applications, will discuss LCG's challenge of integrating various data sources for business intelligence and integration purposes after several M&A activities. Additionally, different divisions were using various matrices making it harder to measure and manage company’s progress at various levels.PORTLAND, Ore. -- Learning Care Group Inc., the nation's second largest for-profit childcare provider with more than 1,000 centers in 37 states, has rapidly developed and deployed an integrated information delivery system for business intelligence (BI) and analytics using WhereScape RED, WhereScape's agile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for managing data warehouses. WhereScape RED enabled Learning Care Group (LCG) to quickly integrate a variety of disparate data sources obtained through multiple mergers and acquisitions (M&As) into an agile, scalable, Microsoft SQL Server-based architecture serving the LCG business communities' ever-evolving reporting and analysis needs.About WhereScapeThe session covers how a combination of people, processes and technology helped LCG deliver an information delivery platform in a rapid timeframe. Challenges facing project execution as timelines and budget shrank will be covered. A scalable architecture (people, process and technology) is now in place to continue adding and maintaining agility required to serve the business needs for business intelligence.WhereScape design, develop, sell and support WhereScape 3D, the industry’s first data warehouse planning tool; and WhereScape RED, the industry’s first and best integrated development environment for building, deploying, managing and renovating data warehouses.Our more than 400 customers are active and satisfied users of our technologies, and report that, with WhereScape’s products, they are able to build data warehouses with fewer people, few if any diversions, missed deadlines or unmet user expectations, and in record time: in days or weeks, instead of months or years. WhereScape has offices in Portland Oregon, Auckland New Zealand, and Wokingham UK. For more information, please visit www.wherescape.com.All products or company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.“I found the speed with which Learning Care Group was able to provide data to users without extensive training or a large budget to be very compelling,” said David Stodder, TDWI Director of TDWI Research for Business Intelligence. “Learning Care Group's ability to provide users iterations, gather feedback, and deliver usable data to business users in 10 days is a great accomplishment and will be of great interest to TDWI Executive Summit attendees,” Stodder said.

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