Website Redevelopment
"Thank you and your team for all your efforts in creating our website. It has been an absolute pleasure working with everyone as I feel our vision has now turned into a reality. The Data Blueprint team has been very responsive, accommodating, and demonstrated the utmost professionalism. A time line was set from day one and each goal was met every step of the way. (We) highly recommend Data Blueprint to anyone looking to create or re-develop a site."Doug Collier, Service Manager
Collier Companies
Data Quality Audit
"You and your team have more than exceeded our expectations time after time."Christine Metz
TQ Process Owner, Headquarters Defense Logistics Agency
Metadata Repostiory in a Week
"Data Blue Print was able to significantly accelerate our Metadata Repository efforts. By taking advantage of the 'repository in a week' program, we were able to gain valuable knowledge, create a working prototype and actually start gathering metadata! With help from the experts at Data Blueprint, in just five days we were able to quickly get our staff up to speed on metadata concepts and build a functioning repository!"Glenn Carney
Director Data Services and Business Intelligence, CommunityAmerica Credit Union
Data Management Practices Assessment
"Rarely does one say that they enjoyed an audit but the opportunity to work recently with Data Blueprint was actually fun and a great learning experience. The Data Blueprint team's professionalism, depth of expertise, and objective benchmarking techniques motivated us to take full advantage of the opportunity to work with them. We approached the audit as an opportunity to learn about ways to improve and expand our institutional influence and Data Blueprint's team offered suggestions and specific guidance that we, in at least one case so far, have already begun to implement. Their project manager and team were all accessible, responsive and respected the importance of confidentiality in our discussions. We would welcome the opportunity to work on other projects or future audits with Data Blueprint."Elizabeth Davis
Sr. Operations Officer, CCBIQ, World Bank
ERP Migration and Project Management
"ColonialWebb began using our new ERP January 1 - exactly according to the project plan I set in motion 10 months earlier. The project resulted from a recent merger of two leading Richmond and Norfolk based companies. The merger required that ColonialWebb abandon two dissimilar platforms then carefully cleanse, transform, and migrate thousands of customer, vendor, and service location records. Data Blueprint provided key technical and project leadership throughout the effort. Their technical advice was never in error and their commitment to our success was unparalleled in my 30 years in technology and technology management. The project was an absolute textbook success. Under budget, on-time, users fully trained, and not a single disruption to our customers. I would not have succeeded without the commitment and expertise Data Blueprint brought to the project. If Data Blueprint does not win this award, [2006 GRTC IT Builders Award] you need to create one for them."Marv Evans
Vice President, XACTEC
Former IT Director/Project Manager, ColonialWebb Contractors
Data Cleansing and Auditing
"For the past few years, the Defense Logistics Agency has been involved in perhaps its most ambitious project. Modernizing the way we provide support to America's war fighters will result in significantly improved capabilities for our armed forces and our allies. Part of our business systems modernization involved the transformation of data describing literally billions of items that are procured for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Data Blueprint has developed a unique technical approach to measuring baseline quality assessments and the effects of improvements to those baselines over time. Further, they have implemented an extremely difficult technical solution to ensure that DLA personnel can see the effects of their improvements to the quality of our data immediately. This is a technical feat that no contractor has been able to implement in the more than three decades that our system has been running."Tony Berta
Program Manager, Technical Quality, Headquarters Defense Logistics Agency
Expert Witness / Litigation Consulting
"Our Law firm engaged Data Blueprint to help us to understand and resolve a contractual dispute. While we needed an expert witness to support our client's claims, what we got was a very competent business partner. The original scope of work was to 'prove' that the data quality problems alleged by the complainant were due to poor migration practices of the complainant. With Data Blueprint's help, we were able to establish a much broader scope of investigation into the various other aspects of this technology-related disaster. I doubt that we could have put together a more air-tight and overwhelming case supporting our client's position. Their team worked closely with our legal practitioners and, of course, our informed client and we were able to conclude the engagement to our clients satisfaction. Throughout the engagement, the Data Blueprint team demonstrated consistent high value to both our legal practitioners and to our client. We are currently working with Data Blueprint to provide value for future engagements with our clients."Luke Anderson
Partner, McGuireWoods LLP
Educational Services / XML and Metadata Solutions
"Since coming on board in 2003, Data Blueprint has been employed by us in a mentoring role that distinguishes them from the standard consulting help (of which we have a lot). By taking a decidedly different approach than a traditional body-shop, the three consultants that have visited us on-site in Helsinki were conscientious, articulate, and proven problem solvers.They have taught classes, provided mentoring, and helped our teams to develop various knowledge, skills, and abilities relating to specific technological innovations and implementation methodologies. The positive impact on our organization has been felt by many.
We have also employed Data Blueprint resources in an off-shore capacity as they co-developed with our team, a functional metadata repository and advanced XML-parsing functionality. We have consistently relied on their partnership-based expertise and council.
They have proven particularly adept at predicting the outcome of various initiatives based on their initial trajectory. They seem to have an uncanny ability to foresee certain project trends that obviously comes from years of experience. We anticipate that this productive partnership will extend to the foreseeable future and look forward to it."
Aija Palomaki
Senior Enterprise Architect, Nokia Corporation
