Data Management
It’s all about the data. Information drives all decision making, and only when data is visible, accessible, understandable, trusted, and interoperable can leaders and their teams develop and execute the most effective courses of action, identify anomalies and risks, and drive mission success.
Empirical has helped OCFOs, program offices, and other organizations to better manage and leverage their data and ensure the right levels of access to the data. With Empirical’s data management services and solutions, our team can help agencies improve reporting, analysis, and decision-making capabilities. Empirical’s data management services and solutions include:
- Develop new tools and systems to automate manual processes, including data entry, data validation, reporting, and analysis
- Data validation and clean-up activities to improve data quality and accuracy
- Data warehouse and database architecture, design, and performance tuning to consolidate disparate sources of data across multiple systems
- Data projections
- Database administration, management, and integration efforts to successfully use data in reporting, analytics and visualization tools
Empirical brings in-depth financial domain and regulations knowledge, an understanding of the data structure and sources of data needed, and the technical expertise to help organizations transform their data so it’s accessible, accurate, and actionable.
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) – Data Transformation Success
Overview: ICE OCFO needed to transform their financial data and reporting to improve the ability to conduct analytics and for leaders to make informed decisions.
Solution: Empirical developed and implemented a data warehouse solution that integrated multiple data sources into one centralized database. Our team conducted data normalization and validation routines to provide ICE’s OCFO with accuracy and structured data alignment.
Result: The new data warehouse allowed the Empirical team to complete financial transactions and generate accurate reports more efficiently, and provide in-depth analysis and recommendations to leadership, helping ICE comply with Federal reporting requirements and make confident decisions on future programs that better aligned with their mission.
