Business Models for InfoKarta

There is a spectrum of business models, from the environment InfoKarta operated in the 2005-2013 timeframe where the data warehouse is customer hosted and the development is owned by the customer, to a data warehousing service, whereby customers enjoy EDW service without the burden of building and hosting it. Here are three distinct points on this spectrum:

Contract Hosted - Contract Delivered

The data warehouse is hosted in contracted facilities, oerated by contracted operations centers, and the development is contracted. The methodology used is defined by InfoKarta as its responsibility covers the definition, implementation and delivery of the data warehouse and reporting environment. This model leverages common resources over multiple customer projects and has the best potential for reusability, cost reduction and quality, particularly if it is repeated over the same industries, e.g. retail or health care.

Customer Hosted - Customer Delivered

The data warehouse is hosted at customer facilities, and the development is managed by customer resources. The methodology used is typically a variation of waterfall. InfoKarta provides data-related services to the customer, covering data architecture, performance engineering, ETL, SQL Application support and software automation.

Customer Hosted - Contract delivered

The data warehouse is hosted at customer facilities, and the bulk of the development is managed and executed by a primary contract. The customer is typically responsible for aligning resources, defining and managing requirements, and owns testing and operations. InfoKarta has more control over the methodology and the automation of hand-offs, however a lot is still dictated by customer policies, particularly in the way and rigor of requirements, testing, platform and configuration choices and data center procedures and norms. This is a transitional model that allows the emergence of a repeatable process, and establishes the automation of handoffs.