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Database Development for Market Research Firm

Services Covered:

Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
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Industry
Industry

Business Consulting & Services

Duration
Duration

180 months

Budget
Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date
Start Date

1 April 2004

Team Size
Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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77/100
Good

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Client

Confidential

mapEagan, United States of America

Project Summary

ELEKS has a long-term relationship with a market research consulting firm, building and maintaining a core SQL database used to track detailed market information and support forecasting. Their work includes developing modules to track companies, product relationships, and components, and populating a customer-facing database. The engagement has significantly improved the client's internal productivity and efficiency.

Key Challenges

  • Rebuild and maintain an internal database for tracking detailed market data
  • Track complex relationships between companies, products, and components
  • Implement forecasting capabilities to support product outputs

Project Deliverables

  • Internal SQL database
  • Forecasting algorithm
  • Modules to track components
  • Customer-facing database populated from the internal database

Project Solution

ELEKS rebuilt and has continuously developed the client's internal SQL database from scratch, adding modules and nuance over time to track companies, inter-company relationships, products, and components. They implemented an algorithm to forecast production volumes and provided ongoing maintenance and enhancements. The internal database serves as the authoritative source that populates a customer-facing database released quarterly.

Project Outcome

  • Improved productivity and efficiency across the client's internal operations
  • Enabled forecasting of production volumes, increasing the value of the client's data products
  • Consistently responsive vendor support despite an eight-hour time difference

Platforms

  • WebWeb

Tech Stack

  • SQLSQL

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.63star5 out of 5 stars

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

The work is integral to the business and makes important improvements to productivity and efficiency. ELEKS keeps up with evolving technologies and maintains a skilled group of developers.

Jim Downey

Vice President of Global Data Products

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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