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Services

Our consultants provide a wide spectrum of services from developing high-level strategy to implementation services. If you have upcoming data initiative and need expert assistance to manage risks and deliver on time, we offer in right blend of skills to keep your projects on time. Our service offerings include:

  • Strategy and Governance
  • Master Data Management
  • Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
  • Big Data, Hadoop
  • Augment your team with data experts

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To download a summary of Data Lab Service Offerings please click here.

Master Data Management

Master Data Management (MDM) and its benefits are well known in the industry. It removes data inconsistencies, eliminates duplicates and creates a single source of truth. Even though the concept of MDM is universally applicable to all organization and all industries, most of the MDM implementation follows the usual centralized/consolidated approach to MDM implementation – Master Data is authored centrally and shared with other systems.

We at Data Labs take a more realistic view of Enterprise MDM. Our approach is based on our MDM implementation experience in various industries. We believe that the MDM approach should be designed after carefully considering the following:


  • Industry standards, regulations and compliance needs that must be met by an MDM approach.
  • Organizational constraints within which the MDM approach has to work.
  • Business drivers for MDM initiative
  • Level of support and engagement from business and IT leadership
  • Maturity of IT build & run organizations


Based on these factors, various approaches could be considered to provide an optimal MDM solution. To discuss how we can assist you in your MDM initiatives, please contact us at info@datalabinc.com.

Corporate culture plays big role in data governance: Corporate culture plays an important role in type of governance structure that delivers results. A governance structure that works in a strict command and control organization will not work in matrixed organization. Data Labs develops governance with complete understanding of what will work in a given environment.


Develop customized framework: Apart from corporate culture we realize that each customer in unique. So a cookie cutter approach does not work all the time. Based on customer’s needs we tailor our framework to include right charter, policies, procedures, role and responsibilities. 


You need just enough governance: Most governance effort fail, because they are too focused on command and control with policing standards, rather than facilitating results. At Data Labs we are known for striking the right balance to deliver results.


Data Governance

​Make data governance an integral part of IT governance: Every organization that is embarking on data initiatives needs data governance. If you are going to make decisions about what data to use, how to harvest it, how to protect it, how to manage it, how to drive value from the data, and conform to any regulatory requirements, and do this on daily basis, then you need a data governance. Governance is about making informed decisions by following a structured approach. Since Information Technology resources are intricately involved in data initiatives, we believe, data governance should be major part of IT governance structure.

Develop a roadmap: Getting the strategy right is only half the game. Transforming that strategy into actionable initiatives to bring it to fruition is where majority of the effort is required. After understanding existing data management capabilities and identifying gaps, we develop a roadmap consisting of various actionable initiatives with their relationship, dependencies and timeline. A roadmap gives you overview of how various initiatives align to deliver your desired business goals. 


Execute and Refine your strategy if needed: We then zero in on each initiative and assist our customers in executing them, while keeping an eye on evolving market place and fine-tuning strategies as needed. 

Data Strategy

​Make data an integral part of business strategy: Why you need a data strategy…for the same reason you need a game plan to play football, so you are prepared to win. Without well thought out data strategy that is not aligned with business goals, you are bound to fail. We at Data Labs pride ourselves in assisting customer formulate their data strategy, in line with vision and mission of the organization. We start by asking customers for their business strategy, because ultimately data should be an integral part of business strategy. When necessary, we work with customer to make this shift and incorporate data in business strategy and get the business buy-in. Next comes the IT strategy. It is usually a part of business strategy or separate strategy by itself, closely linked to business strategy.