Data Warehouse Consulting
Start here if business priorities, platform options, or the roadmap haven’t been settled. We’d sort those out in consulting first. Detailed architecture and modeling then follow the direction agreed there.
GroupBWT works backward from your reports. We read what each report has to show before we touch the architecture, the data models, or the integration rules. So we plan how your sources consolidate. Each metric gets pinned to a single meaning, and we leave headroom for analytical growth. Nobody builds a new database, or restructures the one you already run, until our data warehouse design services have all of that agreed.
Some teams come to GroupBWT with no warehouse yet. Others already run one that has stopped matching their reporting requirements or source systems, so we revise it. What you get from our DWH design services, in both cases, is the architecture plus the engineering specifications we’ve agreed together. Pipelines, deployment, and migration come after that, under a separate implementation scope.
GroupBWT provides data warehouse systems design and implementation solutions through separately scoped services. Consulting settles the direction before design; build and testing follow once the architecture is agreed.
Start here if business priorities, platform options, or the roadmap haven’t been settled. We’d sort those out in consulting first. Detailed architecture and modeling then follow the direction agreed there.
Once the architecture is set, this is where the warehouse gets built, integrated, and deployed. Want one delivery partner for both stages? Just ask, and we’ll take on data warehouse (DWH) development and design services together.
Check the implemented warehouse through reconciliation, regression, and reporting validation. This verifies running data flows and outputs beyond the checks possible on a proposed design.
You know what the warehouse has to support, and where your current structure keeps getting in the way. Share that with GroupBWT. One of our architects will then mark where design should begin and which requirements call for a deeper technical review. There’s no need to arrive with a finished architecture brief.
Our published work includes both warehouse delivery and architecture assignments completed before migration. The delivery project is proof of integration and governance we actually implemented. The architecture work is narrower, showing how we sort out an existing warehouse’s structure before any development begins.
Warehouse Design Carried Into Delivery
GroupBWT designed a warehouse for a pharmaceutical company and then implemented it, connecting seven pipelines and mapping 22 source schemas along the way. Our team also put lineage and shared analytical structures in place, so reporting could draw on systems that had previously been disconnected.
Existing Warehouse Mapped for Modernization
An agricultural producer was running an existing SQL Server warehouse, and GroupBWT mapped 18 sources and designed a Databricks architecture for it. What we completed was the assessment and design, not the migration. It settled the proposed structure before implementation.
Reporting Dependencies Included in Design
In that same modernization assignment, GroupBWT reviewed the client’s Power BI reporting estate and grouped reports by shared data model. That work informed the proposed transition, so the architecture accounted for reporting dependencies rather than treating storage changes in isolation.
What Our Clients Say
GroupBWT works out the design with the people who know your source systems, reporting definitions, and security requirements best. We agree the scope and review criteria before detailed modeling. Your team validates business meaning; our architects and engineers specify how the warehouse should represent it.
Related Data Services for Your Next Step
Here the pipelines that extract, transform, and load your source records get built, following the mappings agreed in design. Pipeline development turns the integration design into working data flows.
Already running a warehouse that's moving to a new platform? Existing pipelines and data move across here, with parallel runs and reconciliation checks during the cutover.
Some governance responsibilities and controls reach beyond the warehouse project. Go here first if organizational policies or data ownership still have to be settled.
Need the dashboards and reports themselves? BI work translates agreed measures into the views teams use for analysis and decisions.
Raw files and high-volume data that don't fit modeled warehouse tables can land in a data lake instead. This service covers its ingestion, architecture, and governance.
Sometimes the warehouse is one part of a wider platform rebuild. Data engineering covers the infrastructure around it, from ingestion to reliable, compliant data delivery.
What do you hand over at the end?
It depends on the scope we agree. The package can mix architecture diagrams, logical and physical models, source mappings, and access or quality specifications. You decide with us how deep each one goes, before the work begins. You also get the assumptions and decisions that will matter when someone builds it. None of it replaces engineering work. It just makes the build clearer for your engineers.
Can the design change if our platform stays?
Yes. The parts that need revising get our DWH design solutions, and the rest of your warehouse stays as it is. How much? That’s for after we’ve seen your models, source dependencies, and reporting requirements. Certain issues can be fixed inside your current platform. Others won’t go away without a broader change to the architecture. The review tells you which is which, so nobody assumes a full rebuild from day one.
Can our own engineers implement the design?
They can. The agreed design is what they’d build against. Our part is writing the specifications they’ll need. We also pull them into technical reviews, because that’s where platform constraints come up early. Any support during development is agreed separately. Buying the design doesn’t commit you to a full implementation project.
How do you estimate a design project?
First, your sources. A few similar sources make for a lighter lift than lots of systems that all disagree. Modeling is the next thing we size up, along with what your historical data has to support. Security boundaries and validation depth weigh in too. If documentation exists and your source specialists can answer questions quickly, there’s less work to do. Our estimate comes once we’ve looked at those inputs and pinned down the scope. A limited model revision and a new multi-source architecture should not carry the same assumed schedule.
Can you also handle implementation?
We can. Implementation gets its own scope, agreed separately after design. Once you’ve got the architecture and the rules, design’s done. Pipeline building counts as implementation in our book, and so do environment setup and warehouse deployment. Then come testing and operational support, which have separate responsibilities and acceptance criteria. We spell each stage out up front. That way nobody mistakes a design estimate for what a complete production system will cost or how long it will take.
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