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ABOUT

POWERDATA GROUP

Powerdata Group Consulting is regarded as a trusted data analytics consultancy and IT advisor. We have had many major organisations come to for our leadership abilities across a wide range of projects including; data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting, analytics, data management, data migration, applications development, and marketing analytics. Increasingly, we have been pushing towards big data as well as the online and digital space. We have a team of highly skilled and talented technical consultants that provide exceptional quality solutions for a range of clients across various sectors including; telco, finance, Government, insurance and retail industries. We are a company setup for the consultants; we believe by truly focusing on our consultants we can offer the best to our clients.

Our significant growth is a result of our highly valued IP, in fact most of our work comes from referrals! Our flexible approach and commitment to our clients ensures that we always find a way to deliver.

Powerdata Group Consulting is an agile organization; process driven, but not process bound. We take pride in our commitment to our consultants firmly believing that by hiring talented, passionate people and training, mentoring and supporting them. To ensure we produce the best consultants that are able to be at the best of their ability to guarantee our clients great results.

We bring deep knowledge and hands-on experience which is gained through delivering numerous projects (across a range of technology platforms) over the past fifteen years. As well as our extensive production/operational support experience gained in dynamic complex environments.

We subscribe to continuous development and growth of our people to keep up with the ever changing technology and business environments.

We have a unique team based approach to delivering our services i.e. the knowledge of a project/client does not reside with an individual but a team of consultants.

Whilst Powerdata has technological relationships to ensure that our knowledge remains current.We are software independent focusing on implementing fit-for-purpose solutions for our clients.

WHY

POWERDATA GROUP

Powerdata Group provides highly experienced program managers and project managers with the leadership abilities to successfully guide, manage, and support high-visibility initiatives. Powerdata Group is the niche provider clients seek out when they are looking to implement business-enhancing, agile PMO services that improve project and portfolio performance. At Powerdata Group our processes, tools and techniques help organizations prioritize the right projects at the right time. We design custom solutions and implementation approaches that work within unique cultures and objectives.

PROGRAM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

GOVERNMENT

Powerdata Group has a long history of working with local, State and Federal Government across Australia. Federal Agencies and Departments we have partnered with span across DTA, Department of Education and Training, Health, Defence, Human Services, Industry and the ATO. Furthermore, have worked with VIC, NSW, SA, ACT and QLD state governments across Transport, Health, Energy, Infrastructure as well as many local councils across the country. Our staff over around the country have security clearance as part of our current arrangement with Department of Defense. .

Powerdata Group Consulting provides independent advice and solutions to organisations that is vendor and technology agnostic. As practitioners and consultants with hands-on experience in delivering technical solutions, it is our job to know the marketplace and understand the industry. We provide you with business and technical acumen to simplify the delivery and management of your IT infrastructure (AWS, AZURE).

OUR

SPECIALTIES

CLOUD CONSULTING

Business intelligence, OLAP, data warehouses, dashboards and scorecards, big data, reporting – it seems marketing departments come up with a new term for our core business every few months. Data analytics is about providing you with the tools you need to make sense of your data. Transform raw numbers into targeted solutions by collecting and analyzing day-by-day big data within your company. Uncover hidden correlations by segmenting your market and customizing your products with the help of big data predictive analytics.

DATA ANALYTICS

Cloud Consulting POWERDATA GROUP

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Consulting Services POWERDATA GROUP

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MANAGEMENT

CONSULTING SERVICES

BIG DATA STRATEGY

Powerdata will work with you to develop a clear plan on how to use big data to maximize your business’ performance.

BLUEPRINTS AND ROADMAPS

Our consulting services include developing blueprints and roadmaps. Clients often engage in Powerdata to re-engineer or re-align current architecture to revised corporate standards. The roadmaps delivered by Powerdata focus on providing clients with immediate actions that can be done through business-as-usual activities, and medium to longer term actions or projects to deliver their requirements.

DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Powerdata provides clients with the ability to quantify the costs of poor data quality and use our proven methodology to deal with data quality issues. Data quality management is not a project, but rather a lifestyle change and Powerdata can equip your organization to become self-sufficient in living this particular lifestyle.

SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE SERVICES

Powerdata provides clients with architectural services to enable end-to-end solution delivery. We put forward the best practice advice combined with a fit-for-purpose philosophy. Therefore, designing solutions that are appropriate, taking into consideration the end-to-end architecture i.e. from infrastructure design through to application and data architecture.

COMPETENCY CENTRES

Powerdata has experience in assessing organizations for the need to establish a competency centre. We assess the maturity of current skills, capabilities and practices and identify the gaps. We support our clients to plan, design and implement competency centres for information governance, integration, and business intelligence and information quality.

DATA GOVERNANCE, MIGRATION STRATEGY AND FRAMEWORK

Powerdata provides clients with the ability to assess their data governance practices against our data governance framework. The framework helps clients to develop a common understanding of the important elements of data governance and have a structured approach to address short comings in their current practices. Powerdata supports clients to construct an appropriate data migration strategy, taking into account their unique environments, constraints and requirements. Powerdata has a framework that guides data migration projects ensuring that all aspects are considered and dealt with through a structure

SOFTWARE UPGRADES AND MIGRATIONS Powerdata provides clients with a structured approach to managing software upgrades and migrations. We provide substantial experience to clients that reduce the risks associated with these initiatives.

PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Good project and program management is essential in delivering successful outcomes. Powerdata offers extensive programs and project management experience to our clients.

ASSESSMENTS AND REVIEWS

Clients engage Powerdata to assess their current practices against industry and domain best practice, standards and methods. A maturity assessment not only identifies the level of sophistication, but also identifies gaps and potential risks. A readiness assessment provides clients with the knowledge of gaps or potential issues that may cause project delays and failures.

DATA VISUALISATION

Powerdata supports clients with the implementation of dashboards and reporting solutions. With our depth and breadth of the industry and functional experience we help our clients with the definition of metrics and appropriate data visualization techniques to best represent their information.

HEALTH CHECKS

Powerdata supports clients with health checks, allowing them to enhance decision making, increase efficiency and reduce costs. We assist our clients in assessing and identifying opportunities for improvement.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) AND DATA WAREHOUSING (DW)

Powerdata delivers fit-for-purpose solutions. Our innovative solutions focus on unlocking your information and data assets. We have delivered numerous projects over the past two decades. Our services cover the complete software development lifecycle from requirements analysis, solution architecture and design to development, testing and production deployment. Our knowledge tree methodology allows clients to develop and gain knowledge in a natural and cost effective manner. This methodology focuses on delivering on immediate priorities whilst keeping the strategic end in mind; allowing clients to implement solutions that deliver immediate value.

MANAGEMENT

CONSULTING SERVICES

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

We provide end-to-end solutions when it comes to migrating your manual and boring paper based records and maintenance of your departmental information, to digital platforms so that you can retrieve any of your organizational data in seconds. In order for any company to reach the next level in quality deliverables, it is vital to digitalize information and to keep track of your customers or internal record data.

DATA INTEGRATION, MIGRATION AND QUALITY

Powerdata has extensive experience in providing data integration solutions to clients. We support clients in dealing with data complexities, such as dealing with high data volumes and managing performance. Our experience spans across multiple tools and platforms. Being vendor independent we are able to leverage our client’s existing technologies and tools, to successfully migrate their data. We also have vast experience dealing with data quality issues, as we help our clients to identify these issues, quantify the impact and put strategies into place to resolve them by understanding the underlying causes. We work with our clients to implement preventative measures that aim to reduce the reoccurrence of data quality issues. Powerdata also allows customers to create single customer and product views for clients.

MANAGEMENT

CONSULTING SERVICES

CYBER

SECURITY

Security Architecture service: Powerdata are able to assist your organization in identifying critical security capabilities, enabling you and your organization to achieve its goals. Security planning is about thinking ahead, identifying and implementing security countermeasures that are aligned with identified risks. Our security architects go beyond traditional security and risk mitigation strategies. We are able to assist you in identifying opportunity enablers that increase the likelihood of achieving your business objectives. Powerdata also has the ability to assist your organization in crafting the right program size. The program and its scope of work will include all tasks required to develop, implement, test, and operate the associated security services and supporting infrastructure. Architects, designers, project managers, testers, suppliers, and service operators will work together from the start until the completion of implementation.

We have considerable experience in security assessments, certification, and system accreditation. Our consultants will use business information from your security plan and assure all critical assets will be covered by security assurance program. Our consultants can assist you to fulfill any security operational capability gap associated with implementing security policies, and associated development of process and procedures.

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

L’ Oreal Boost Project

Powerdata providesd best reporting practice, project management and development using SAP BODS, Business Objects reporting solution. Our team provided cost effective data quality solutions that vastly reduced the number of errors. As a result the business is able to ensure regulatory compliance and operational and transactional reporting with accurate, trustworthy data.

National Australia Bank Big Data Services

NDH is NAB's data lake and as a member of the platform team our mandate was to build ingestion templates which can be parameterized. Our team created Informatica BDM dynamic mapping templates which can be parameterized to so that ingestion squads with basic Unix and excel experience can leverage the templates provided to build data assets. The .

Bureau of Meteorology Storage Management

Powerdata provided support and maintenance of the Bureau’s existing storage infrastructure. Assisting with the migration of critical data to new versatile storage management systems including: EMC unified VNX series, Oracle 7420 storage arrays, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and SAM-QFS, Cisco FC switches, StorageTek fibre channel connected tape libraries and ACSLS, CommVault backup systems.

IAG Business Intelligence Administration Powerdata was responsible for working with BI administration group in building new and supporting existing BI application environments (Tableau, Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos Embarcadero, DB2 and Microsoft stack).

VICTORIA

CASE STUDIES

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

AIA Data Management and Dashboard

Services

Worked on EDEN program of work which is a Technical initiative from the BI / Datawarehouse platform team to create an Enterprise view of the AIA insurance data. Powerdata provides expertise in the design of a new data warehouse environment for the delivery of Tableau / Cognos operational reporting capability.

Sensis IGEN Project (Data

Warehousing/Reporting)

Powerdata provided data modelling, development, and reporting SME expertise on the IGEN data warehouse Oracle project at Sensis / Telstra. Our team delivered over 30 critical reports and a range of data mart, across 4 business areas. Reporting solutions included Business Objects and Microsoft reporting.

Telstra Telstra Data Warehouse Powerdata designed, configured, and enhanced data loading and reporting within Telstra’s Teradata warehouse environment .

Medibank IMAX Project

Creation and maintenance of Power BI reports per specifications. Which led the development of control reporting which reconciled data from CRM to legacy systems Support Power BI reporting, including the creation of reports/dashboards, creation and testing of DAX measures and training and documenting the tabular models.

VICTORIA

CASE STUDIES

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

Dept of Education and Training Business Analysis Services

Powerdata provided As-Is and To-Be analysis to various projects . Also providing data analysis, design, programming, configuration, test, maintenance, support and deployment in SQL Server and SSIS Services, and Power BI to be used in Azure Cloud.

Transport for NSW Azure Cloud (Data Factory)

The project involved the analysis, extraction and loading data from the CTABS application and builds, visualization, and reporting capability. The goal was to provide data insights for the community transport business unit to better manage the deployment of services to new and existing customers on Azure cloud platform.

NEW SOUTH WALES

CASE STUDIES

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

Dept of Defence Cognos E health Project Powerdata developed a number of reports relating to financial, clinical, and management matters using Cognos suite of products.

Dept of Health and Ageing Business Analysis , software development,

software testing and database administration services

Powerdata designed a new service provider data dictionary and provided Cognos Business Intelligence and web application software development.

Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet Dynamics CRM Services Powerdata provided business analysis expertise to various projects working with MS Dynamics CRM. Managing the configuration within the MS Dynamics CRM to reflect business requirements.

Dept of Employment Qlik View Development

The Department of Employment approached us in order to help in the delivery of the following : The approach to fix it included detail plans to ensure efficient use of resources and time schedules. • Conduct regression and system tests in accordance with test cases • Support various stages of Qlik development lifecycle, and conduct some user administration functions.

Australian Taxation Office Business Analysis and

testing services Powerdata provided business analysis and testing services for two and a half years to the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) program.

DTA User Research and Interaction Designe

Powerdata consulting team worked on User Research, and Interaction Design within the myGov Branch. Key responsibilities were varied, across a range of initiatives. Highlighting the key activities below: • Rapid high fidelity prototypes to respond to Ministerial requests • Developing ‘creative’ design thinking alternatives to Ministerial requests • Developed end to end solutions for the integration of the digital identity platform into the existing myGov product • Led the thinking, and development of the ‘Strategic Framework’ for myGov Branch wide restructuring towards a more modern agile, UCD product environment.

ACT

CASE STUDIES

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

Dept of Environment (DEWNR) Database Administration services Powerdata delivered Sybase and SQL Server development, maintenance and support services ,including data integration using SSIS, SSRS, PowerBI, SHarepointView and SSAS.

Dept of Infrastructure (DPTI) Agile Coaching

Powerdata Group provided Agile-Lean Coach with experience in organizational transformation as well as team level change, to help develop a way forward. Therefore, providing built support for the change as it was implemented. We Established a Lean Agile Centre of Excellence - to coordinate coaching and training across the division and to prevent the silo-ing of initiatives.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

CASE STUDIES

ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES

Dept of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (DCCP)

Reporting strategy and architecture (MS Architecture Improvement

Project)

Project Objective: Convert ICMS System (MS InfoPath) to MS HTML platform.

ICMS – Integrated Info Path (200520) Client Management System SQL Server 2008 Database, HTML 5, MS, Borland Caliber (11.3),

Undertook business analysis to develop high level and detailed business requirements for a self- service model of performance reporting. Develop specifications of data items including data.

Dept of Education and training Project Management services

Powerdata managed the planning, development and implementation of corporate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects, by using project and change management techniques . This is to ensure that the Department’s strategic objectives were met.

Ergon Energy Data migration, Business Intelligence administration and testing services

Powerdata provided resources in the data migration and reporting space (SAP

HANA, BODS, Business Objects, BW) expertise. Microsoft stack development

with .Net, SSIS, SSRS , SSAS,PowerBI)

QUEENSLAND

CASE STUDIES

PREFERRED

SUPPLIER ARRANGEMENTS

We also offer IT contingent workforce through different preferred supplier arrangement with:

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CLIENTS

CLIENT

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Powerdata has a number of engagement models to cater for our client’s specific requirements, including models to deliver the entire project, partner with client’s in-house team and provide expert advice or partner with the client’s preferred service provider.