Ventus Solutions' Data Warehouse Assessment Helps Financial Services Firms Take the First Step in Becoming Customer-Centric

The Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment solution assists financial services firms become more customer-focused by identifying key 'customer intelligent' business drivers and creating an optimal data warehouse deployment roadmap.

Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) May 17, 2003 --- Ventus Solutions, a strategy and technology solution provider focused on helping financial services firms become customer-centric, today announced the availability of the Ventus Data Warehousing Assessment that will help banks, credit unions and lenders plan a practical data warehouse deployment effort. The resulting data warehouse will utilize disorganized, unexploited data in order to obtain improved visibility into their customer-facing business objectives. This will ensure that their customer relationships, marketing efforts and corporate strategies achieve higher customer satisfaction and customer profitability.

"Increased competition from non-traditional rivals like insurance and brokerage firms has forced many financial service organizations to rethink strategies and develop new customer-centric business models that will keep them operating competitively in today's high-tech, multi-channel retail banking industry," stated said Ventus EVP of Client Services Dean Stehlik. He further added, "The Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment addresses this business need resulting in a custom-tailored deployment roadmap ideal for financial services companies, as it uses a 'bottom-up' development process designed to increase customer intelligence."

Typically, the Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment spans two to three weeks in duration, including two to four days of interviews and onsite sessions. Additionally, the Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment focuses on exploring the requirements of all necessary company user groups. Ventus experts help identify and prioritize functions that will best enhance the customer experience.

Some of the key benefits of the Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment include:

     >Identifying business drivers, sponsorship, risks and ROI along with a long-term, enterprise Data Warehouse architecture

     >Creating an optimal Data Warehouse deployment roadmap using a ¡¥bottom-up¡¦, phased approach prioritizing functions based on ROI and impact to your organization

     >Defining tangible budget ranges for each phase of your Data Warehouse roadmap

     >Ensuring appropriate investment in supporting technology

     >Examining which critical business questions your Data Warehouse needs to answer and the value those answers will bring to your business

Tailored to meet the unique needs of financial services organizations, the Ventus Data Warehouse Assessment helps retail banks, credit unions and lenders accomplish short and long-term customer-focused objectives, ensuring customer intelligence across the enterprise.

About Ventus Solutions
Ventus Solutions is a strategy and technology solution provider focused on the customer-facing needs of financial services organizations. Ventus has helped many financial services firms transform into customer-centric organizations. Ventus has an experienced team of consultants with the deep financial services expertise necessary to design and execute effective customer relationship strategies and implement best of breed technology solutions for retail banks, credit unions and lenders. More information about Ventus Solutions can be found at http://www.ventussolutions.com