Data Accelerators

To implement data initiatives in petabyte (and growing) data environments within time and budget, it is necessary to have automation tools that accelerate the implementation.

We have built over 20+ productivity tools and accelerators that have significantly improved productivity.

One of our tools brought down testing time from weeks to a few hours.

Let us walk you through our tools and accelerators.

Multifamily Metadata Management

A custom built tool that consolidates Business Glossary, Operational and Technical Metadata, Mappings, Lineage and more. Key features include

• Ingested, cleansed, and published metadata for over 45+ applications

• Trusted source for Disclosure Business Glossary, Events and Attributes, Allowable Values, Mappings, Derivations and Translations.

• Interfaces with other enterprise applications which in turn is consumed by Technology and other stakeholders.

• Built-in data quality checks

• Serves as a platform for generating test data.

• Supports multiple business projects and initiatives.

Biteforce - Automated Framework for User Acceptance Testing

Named after the winning Battlebot, this tool is battle ready and at the heart of the test automation framework.

• Takes thousands of Actual CDS generated XML’s, and expected output XML’s as input.

• Sifts through every file and identifies issues with both sets of XML files.

• Allows for exceptions such as derived attributes, system generated identifiers, tag format differences, header differences.

• Accelerated development - Completed 7 iterations of testing, fixing, retesting in 3 days.

• Allows rapid testing and application bug fixing

JAWS - XML Audit tool that accelerates XML to FRD testing

Like a shark, it breaks down large volumes of XML files, separates attributes, generates delta’s with functional requirements, and reports them in a neat spreadsheet.

• Valuable tool to ensure alignment of XML’s with FRD specifications

• Automates testing multiple outbound XML's with functional requirements - Both ways!

• Reports on "required elements in requirements" but not in XML.

• Reports on XML elements generated that are not specified in requirements.

• Includes features to test ‘Nil’ files.

• Became a standard where every XML is required to pass the JAWS test first.

Pinger - Automated Mapping Tester

A custom tool to quickly check and validate thousands of mappings put together by analysts from various projects.

• Validates thousands of mappings in minutes.

• Generates easy to use dashboard reports and summary statistics.

• Results in confidently building dynamic queries that don’t fail at run time.

• Automates laborious and error prone manual exercise that requires several people.

• Extendable to other projects across the enterprise.

MetaCrunch - Template Generator

A custom built tool that helps load metadata into Informatica Metadata Manager

• Generates CSV's which are specific to the tool requirements

• Reduces manual errors

• Increases efficiency as many loads can be performed on a single day

• Extensively used for over 100 applications in 9 months