Instant Warehouse: Save Time and Money

Minimize documentation reviews before starting
Create a prototype for your project and get it right the first time
Evolve the prototype to become the requirements document
Eliminate, or at least reduce, subsequent re-work

Minimize documentation reviews before starting

Most warehousing projects involve an extensive documentation review. Experience has shown that, in most cases, reviewing documentation is very costly. In addition, the quality of the metadata you create is often severely impaired, due to incomplete, inaccurate or out of date documentation.

Rather than relying on documentation that may be of questionable quality, Instant Warehouse allows you to review the data itself. In this way, you know that the metadata you create is accurate, rather than hope that it is.

When you work with metadata that is known to be accurate you are much less likely to waste time on unnecessary implementation issues. By prototyping the system before you implement it, you can address virtually all of the technical issues in a flexible and forgiving environment. There are fewer surprises, resulting in reduced costs, time and risk.

Create a prototype for your project and get it right the first time

When you prototype your project you are no longer relying on the user’s ability to visualize the solution. Instead, they can see it with their own eyes and they can work with it directly. The result is the project can be demonstrated to meet the user's needs, rather than merely being designed to meet their needs.

Evolve the prototype to become the requirements document

Traditional warehousing projects involve a heavy front-end load in preparing requirements documents. This is appropriate when implementation costs can be so high, to ensure you fully understand what is required and minimize those costs.

Using Instant Warehouse to prototype your project represents a fundamental improvement in the process. It represents a whole new way to understand the user’s requirements. Rather than an extensive set of documents being the final word, the prototype itself can become the requirement or, at a minimum, supplement other processes. Rather than trying to anticipate every need in advance and trying to visualize the information and presentation in a vacuum, you can actually start with a bare minimum of requirements specifications. You then evolve your requirements dynamically, by working directly with the prototype.

Of course, your success in prototyping will be directly related to the tool’s ability to represent your needs. Only a product that can address virtually all of your data access, mapping, transformation, manipulation, presentation and other needs will be a suitable prototyping tool.

Instant Warehouse is exactly that tool! The technologies have been refined through over 20 years of use in the audit field, by Fortune 1000 companies and Big 4 accounting firms. The result is an agile technology that represents state of the art power and flexibility.

Eliminate, or at least reduce, subsequent re-work

A natural consequence of having an accepted prototype at the outset is a reduced requirement for subsequent re-work. There is no more guesswork. The users get to work with the project and be confident it is sufficient before implementation. Re-work is often the process that is required to ultimately get it right. When working with agile prototyping methodologies, re-work is restricted to real requirements changes.