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Moving Your Data Warehouse to the Cloud

09/29/2017/in News, Technical Blog /by Bob Brichacek

The Cloud offers many advantages and many organizations are looking to utilize Cloud solutions. But how easy is it to move an existing Data Warehouse to Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services? To gain insight and better advise our clients, Data Warehouse Consultants has begun two research projects to identify the benefits and pitfalls of a move to the Cloud.

One project migrates an existing operational data warehouse to Microsoft Azure utilizing Azure SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and T-SQL in a cloud hosted server environment. The other project migrates the same operational data warehouse to AWS Redshift using Python in the AWS Lambda serverless environment.

Through these two parallel development efforts, Data Warehouse Consultants will be better positioned to help clients evaluate the different Cloud based solutions and assist an organization as it migrates existing systems or implements new solutions in a Cloud based environment.

Consultant Advises CMU Students on Cutting Edge Capstone Project

03/01/2017/in News /by John Shantz

Data Warehouse Consultants is focused on the Western Pennsylvania market and encourages our consultants to support the local institutions here. Bob Brichacek, a senior consultant for the firm, moonlights as an adjunct professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz Graduate School. Bob teaches a graduate course in Data Warehousing and acts as a regular sponsor of the Master’s of Information System Management’s “capstone” program. This program is a semester-long project course where students work in teams to solve a real-world problem submitted by local businesses.

This year Bob’s team built an incredibly functional cloud-based video conversion tool using the Amazon Web Services cloud-based products. This project has been featured on Carnegie Mellon’s website. They write:

Bob Brichacek, the team’s faculty advisor, commended the students on their motivation and creativity, calling them “some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.”

“This is the most current technology. [The students] got to play with [tools] that a very small percentage of the population has played with,” said Brichacek. He adds that the pieces of the AWS toolset don’t just plug and play, and that the students’ main accomplishment was successfully customizing each piece to have the functionality Legendary required.

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UPMC Wins Davies Award for Custom DWC Solution

03/03/2016/in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Front Page, News /by John Shantz

Pittsburgh, PA: The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC this week was named the 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient for two innovative solutions designed and implemented by Data Warehouse Consultants. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons learned across a wide range of efforts, including implementation strategies, workflow design, best practice development and adherence, and patient engagement that have improved care outcomes for patients.

This specific solution that earned UPMC the awards was the CHP Pharmacy MedEx Mobile Application, which uses mobile technology to accurate track the delivery of pharmaceuticals within the hospital. A second contributing solution was the CHP Breastmilk-Tracking Mobile Application, which uses mobile technology to accurately match babies with their mother’s breastmilk in the Neonatal ICU. For more information please visit the HIMSS Award Page.

About Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: Renowned for its outstanding clinical services, research programs and medical education, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has helped establish the standards of excellence in pediatric care. From Ambulatory Care to Transplantation and Cardiac Care, talented and committed pediatric experts care for infants, children and adolescents who make more than 1,000,000 visits to Children’s, its many neighborhood locations, and Children’s Community Pediatrics practices each year. (www.chp.edu)

About Data Warehouse Consultants: Data Warehouse Consultants is a consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 2004 the firm provides custom development services for web applications and corporate database and data warehouse environments. (www.dwconsultants.com)

Children’s Hospital Implements Radiology Tracking Board

03/03/2015/in Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, News /by John Shantz

Pittsburgh, PA: The radiology department at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC this week began using a customized on-line patient tracking board created for them by Data Warehouse Consultants. This new application significantly reduces the phone calls and coordination that nurses, physicians and staff must do to efficiently move patients through the radiology department.

The implementation of the tracking board was the final result of an extensive development effort led by Data Warehouse Consultants. The firm worked with Children’s Hospital staff to document the specific processes the hospital uses to maintain a world-class facility. These processes were then converted into a web-based application using Data Warehouse Consultants’ methodology to create a customized tracking board specifically for the radiology department. The tracking board allows staff in the department to monitor and update the status of X-ray, ultrasound, MRI and other radiology patients as they progress through the department.

About Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh: Renowned for its outstanding clinical services, research programs and medical education, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has helped establish the standards of excellence in pediatric care. From Ambulatory Care to Transplantation and Cardiac Care, talented and committed pediatric experts care for infants, children and adolescents who make more than 1,000,000 visits to Children’s, its many neighborhood locations, and Children’s Community Pediatrics practices each year. (www.chp.edu)

About Data Warehouse Consultants: Data Warehouse Consultants is a consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 2004 the firm provides custom development services for web applications and corporate database and data warehouse environments. (www.dwconsultants.com)

ACDHS Qualifies Data Warehouse Consultants to Build Custom Applications

07/18/2014/0 Comments/in News /by John Shantz

Pittsburgh, PA: Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) approved Data Warehouse Consultants to build business intelligence and web applications beginning in September 2014. This provides Data Warehouse Consultants the opportunity to fulfill projects for the Department of Human Services on an as needed, project-by-project basis.

Of the company’s recent success, Data Warehouse Consultants President John Shantz said “We are very excited to have been qualified to do application work for DHS. This will allow us to expand our existing relationship with the county to really make a difference in continually improving the valuable services that DHS provides. We look forward to working closely with DHS to use technology in helping Allegheny County communities and citizens.”

Achieving this qualification designation was the result of a rigorous Request For Qualifications (RFQ) process administered by the county that required Data Warehouse Consultants to compete with other interested firms. Ultimately DHS decided that the consulting firm’s experience and focus are the best fit for the work that needs to be done.

About Allegheny County Department of Human Services: DHS is responsible for providing and administering publicly-funded human services to Allegheny County residents. DHS is dedicated to meeting these human services needs, most particularly for the county’s vulnerable populations, through an extensive range of information exchange, prevention, early intervention, case management, crisis intervention and after-care services. (www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs/)

About Data Warehouse Consultants: Data Warehouse Consultants is a consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 2004 the firm provides custom development services for web applications and corporate database and data warehouse environments. (www.dwconsultants.com)