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A key
element to your business success is the ability to make decisions
based on timely, actionable information. Whether the decision maker
is the chief executive, a senior manager or an engineering analyst,
there is the need to make well-informed decisions contributing to
the success of the organization. By using information efficiently
managers are better able to deliver products and services successfully.
However, recent studies have shown that “information overload”
will only get worse. With increasingly larger volumes of data to
manage, more complex data sources, and heterogeneous data structures,
managers need a method to leverage available technology to quickly
access key information needed to make crucial decisions.

Data
Collection
Connect
Data Sources and Decision Makers
DataDrill
solves the “overload” challenge of data collection with
a suite of powerful solutions to connect data sources and decision
makers who now have the right data at the right time. Data source
integration and raw measure acquisition for graphing, analysis,
and reporting are performed through effective, proven techniques
designed for any corporate data source, from commercial software
and systems engineering, program management and scheduling tools
to complex and large databases.
DataDrill handles all of your integration demands giving decision
makers unprecedented control to critical information. By providing
a central repository for all data sources, DataDrill allows managers
to access the data quickly and ensures only the most informed decisions
are made.
Product
Benefits
Data
Delivered on Time
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Improves
decision making based on availability of quality, timely data
delivered to managers at the right time. |
Comprehensive
Status Overview
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Enables
your organization to assemble a more complete view of operations,
customers, programs, and business units by bringing together
data from disparate sources. |
Save
Time
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Increases
productivity through a rapid deployment model, task automation,
and metadata to capture, organize and distribute raw base measure
data across the organization. |
Lower
Costs
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Improves
development time and lowers integration costs through a variety
of methods applicable to your data sources. |
Reliable
Information
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Provides
complete integration support to ensures collection processes
are continuous and repeatable once fully operational. |
Central
Repository for all Data
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Data
integration methods meet the needs of your organization and
the specific suite of repositories and tools you have. |
Product
Features
- Minimize
integration efforts by directly accepting most common file formats,
providing pre-built extraction tools for most popular commercial
applications, and enabling completely customizable integration
with other sources. Push data into DataDrill or upload from within
the application itself when you have source data files in Excel,
XML, or CSV formats.
- The
Extractor Kit gives you complete programmatic control over what
data is collected and allows for filtering, combining, and selecting
the base measure data you need. The DataDrill Extractor Kit enhances
your investment in other systems software and project management
tools through pre-built integrations with products from Telelogic,
Serena, Rational, Microsoft, Mercury, and others.
- Integration
Studio provides a rich modeling environment to connect to databases
and reverse engineer data structures allowing users to visualize
data sources graphically while raw data is processed and loaded
into DataDrill.
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Data
can be collected by three methods: Integration Studio, Extractors
or formatted files. |
Raw
data is transformed into graphs that display relevant management
information.
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