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Profile
Client is a $63 billion integrated energy company, founded in Ohio in 1887, specializes in oil and gas exploration, development, production, refining, marketing and transportation, and integrated gas. It is the 4th largest U.S.-based integrated oil and gas company with a Refining Capacity of 974,000 bpd.
 
Situation
  • Functional & Process improvements in the Subject Areas of financial, Procurement, Production
  • Streamlining and elimination of manual process in financial close process
  • Performance Tuning of Informatica and MicroStrategy processes
 
Cognizant’s Solution
The project is underway and Cognizant has implemented the following:
  • Definition of Informatica and MicroStrategy Standards and development process
  • Data Management strategy for the Production area drawn up and implemented
  • Critical Reports for users improved by fixing materialized view data problems
  • Performance tuning for reporting in the Financial area
 
Benefit
  • Best practices recommended for Informatica and MicroStrategy
  • AQUA (Cognizant Proprietary tool) - Automated Quality Analyzer for Informatica, reports coding standards deviations and as well common coding errors implemented
  • Consolidation of Master data through the Hub and Spoke Architecture achieved and certain SAP BW processes have been eliminated
  • Improved the Financial Close Technical Process by generating the pre-consolidation reports out of MicroStrategy platform
  • Introduced process monitoring for ETL process
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"We continue to deepen our relationship with Cognizant because they are team-oriented, highly responsive, provide flexibility and scalability to quickly ramp up large project teams, and have multiple competencies."
Tim Brennan,
IT Director, US Cold Storage
 


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