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2 ABOUT POWERDATA GROUP Powerdata Group Consulting is regarded as a trusted data analytics consultancy and IT advisor. Major organisations have come to rely on our thought leadership across a wide range of projects including; data warehousing, business intelligence, reporting, analytics, data management, data migration, applications development, and marketing analytics. Increasingly we have been pushing towards big data as well as the online and digital space. We have a team of highly talented technical consultants that provide top quality solutions for a range of clients across various sectors including; telco, finance, Government, insurance and retail industries. We are a company setup for the consultants; we believe by truly focusing on our consultants we can offer the best to our clients. Our significant growth is a result of our highly valued IP. In fact most of our work comes from referrals! To us work is something you should be proud to do and so our attitude is Find a way to succeed, we are flexible and committed to our clients needs and always find a way to deliver. Powerdata Group Consulting is an agile organization; process driven, but not process bound. We take pride in our commitment to our consultants; firmly believing that by hiring talented, passionate people and training, mentoring and supporting them to become the best consultants they can be is the only way to give clients the great results they need.

3 WHY POWERDATA GROUP We bring deep knowledge and hands-on experience gained through delivering numerous projects (across a range of technology platforms) over the past fifteen years as well as our extensive production/operational support experience gained in dynamic complex environments. We subscribe to continuous development and growth of our people to keep up with the ever changing technology and business environments. We have a unique team based approach to delivering our services i.e. the knowledge of a project/client does not reside with an individual but a team of consultants. Whilst Powerdata has technology relationships to ensure that our knowledge remains current, we are software independent focusing on implementing fit-for-purpose solutions for our clients.

4 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE SERVICES Powerdata provides clients with architecture services to enable endto-end solution delivery. We bring best practice advice combined with a fit-for-purpose philosophy. We design solutions that are appropriate taking into consideration the end-to-end architecture i.e. from infrastructure design through to application and data architecture. DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT Powerdata provides clients with the ability to quantify the costs of poor data quality and use our proven methodology to deal with data quality issues. Data quality management is not a project, but rather a lifestyle change and Powerdata can equip your organization to become self-sufficient in living this lifestyle. BLUEPRINTS AND ROADMAPS Our consulting services include developing blueprints and roadmaps. Clients often engage Powerdata to re-engineer or re-align current architecture to revised corporate standards. The roadmaps delivered by Powerdata focus on providing clients with immediate actions that can be done as business-as-usual activities, and medium to longer term actions or projects to deliver on their requirements. BIG DATA STRATEGY Powerdata will work with you to develop a clear plan on how to use big data to maximise your business performance. DATA GOVERNANCE, MIGRATION STRATEGY AND FRAMEWORK Powerdata provides clients with the ability to assess their data governance practices against our data governance framework. The framework helps clients to develop a common understanding of the important elements of data governance and have a structured approach to address short comings in their current practices. Powerdata supports clients to construct an appropriate data migration strategy, taking into account their unique environments, constraints and requirements. Powerdata has a framework that guides data migration projects ensuring that all aspects are considered and dealt with through a structure COMPETENCY CENTRES Powerdata has experience in assessing organizations for the need to establish a competency centre. We assess the maturity of current skills, capabilities and practices and identify gaps. We support clients to plan, design and implement competency centres for information governance, integration, and business intelligence and information quality.

5 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES DATA VISUALISATION Powerdata supports clients with the implementation of dashboards and reporting solutions. With our depth and breadth of industry and functional experience we help clients with the definition of metrics and appropriate data visualization techniques to best represent their information. PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Good project and program management is essential in delivering successful outcomes. Powerdata offers extensive program and project management experience to our clients. ASSESSMENTS AND REVIEWS Clients engage Powerdata to assess their current practices against industry and domain best practice, standards and methods. A maturity assessment not only identifies the level of sophistication, but also identifies gaps and potential risks. A readiness assessment provides clients with the knowledge of gaps or potential issues that may cause project delays and failures. SOFTWARE UPGRADES AND MIGRATIONS Powerdata provides clients with a structured approach to managing software upgrades and migrations. We bring solid experience to clients that reduce the risks associated with these initiatives. BUSINESS INTELLEGENCE (BI) AND DATA WAREHOUSING (DW) Powerdata delivers fit-for-purpose solutions. Our innovative solutions focus on unlocking your information and data assets. We have delivered numerous projects over the past two decades. Our services cover the complete software development lifecycle from requirements analysis, solution architecture and design to development, testing and production deployment. Our knowledge tree methodology allows clients to grow their knowledge in a natural and cost effective manner. This methodology focuses on delivering on immediate priorities whilst keeping the strategic end in mind; allowing clients to implement solutions that deliver immediate value. HEALTH CHECKS Powerdata supports clients with health checks, allowing them to enhance decision making, increase efficiency and reduce costs. We assist our clients in assessing and identifying opportunities for improvement.

6 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SERVICES DATA INTEGRATION, MIGRATION AND QUALITY Powerdata has extensive experience in providing data integration solutions to clients. We support clients in dealing with data complexities, such as dealing with high data volumes and managing performance. Our experience spans across multiple tools and platforms. Being vendor independent we are able to leverage our client s existing technologies and tools, to successfully migrate their data. We also have vast experience dealing with data quality issues. We help clients identify these issues, quantify the impact and put strategies into place to resolve them by understanding the underlying causes. We work with our clients to implement preventative measures that aim to reduce the reoccurrence of data quality issues. We are also able to create single customer and product views for clients. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION We provide end-to-end solutions when it comes to migrating your manual and boring paper based records, and maintenance of your departmental information, to digital platforms so that you can retrieve any of your organisational data in seconds. In order for any company to reach the next level in quality deliverables, it is vital to digitise information and keep a track of your customers or internal record data.

7 OUR SPECIALTIES DATA ANALYTICS Business intelligence, OLAP, data warehouses, dashboards and scorecards, big data, reporting it seems marketing departments come up with a new term for our core business every few months. Data analytics is about providing you with the tools you need to make sense of your data. AGILE COACHING Our coaches bring extensive experience to help teams avoid pitfalls and operate more effectively. They also help organizations evaluate tools, implement advanced techniques such as one-piece flow and continuous integration, scale to larger projects, and track progress towards "Agile Maturity." Our coaches are equipped to not only improve the effectiveness of teams, but also support the agile transformation process and disseminate "agile thinking" across different business functions. UX SERVICES User Experience (UX) is an art of giving you the best possible experience when using websites, software and all kinds of services. User experience is the impression the user has about the product or service during and after they have interacted with it. At Powerdata, we use various design methodologies to give you the best user experience. Our UX services include: User Experience and User Interface Design: We adopt best practices across a variety of fields like visual design, usability, information architecture and interaction design to create excellent user interfaces. Web design and development: Our developers use the highest industry standards to achieve your vision. We are experts in HTML5, Javascript, PHP, Flex, JavaFX languages. Usability testing and research: We will conduct usability evaluations and our experts will evaluate the overall experience of using your website, mobile application or service. CRM Powerdata has experience delivering CRM strategy, solutions, and security. We have successfully developed our own IP configurations and templates, to fast-track every Microsoft Dynamics implementations and tailor them to your specific needs, company policies and requirements.

8 CYBER SECURITY Security Architecture service: Powerdata are able to assist your organisation in identifying critical security capabilities, enabling you and your organisation to achieve it goals. Security planning is about thinking ahead, identifying and implementing security countermeasures that are aligned with identified risks. Our security architects go beyond traditional security and risk mitigation strategies. We are able to assist you in identifying opportunity enablers that increase the likelihood of achieving your business objectives. We can also assist your organisation in crafting the right program size. The program and its scope of work will include all tasks required to develop, implement, test, and operate the associated security services and supporting infrastructure. Architects, designers, project managers, testers, suppliers, and service operators will work together from the start to the completion of implementation. We have extensive experience in security assessments, certification, and system accreditation. Our consultants will use business information from your security plan and assure all critical assets will be covered by security assurance program. Our consultants can assist you to fulfill any security operational capability gap associated with implementing security policies, and associated development of process and procedures.

9 VICTORIA CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES L Oreal Boost Project Powerdata provided reporting best practice, project management and development using SAP BODS, Business Objects reporting solution. Our team provided cost effective data quality solutions that vastly reduced the number of errors. As a result the business is able to ensure regulatory compliance and operational and transactional reporting with accurate, trustworthy data. Ambulance Victoria Data Analytics Projects Powerdata delivered Ambulance Victoria with a rich data integration and Oracle BI reporting framework to improve internal and external IT Risks and Service Level reporting. Bureau of Meteorology IAG Storage Management Business Intelligence Administration Powerdata provided support and maintenance of the Bureau s existing storage infrastructure. Assisting with the migration of critical data to new versatile storage management systems including: EMC unified VNX series, Oracle 7420 storage arrays, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and SAM-QFS, Cisco FC switches, StorageTek fibre channel connected tape libraries and ACSLS, CommVault backup systems. Powerdata was responsible for working with BI administration group in building new and supporting existing BI application environments (Tableau, Informatica, Business Objects, Cognos Embarcadero, DB2 and Microsoft stack).

10 VICTORIA CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES AIA Data Management and Dashboard Services Work on EDEN program of work which is a Technical initiative from the BI / Datawarehouse platform team to create an Enterprise view of the AIA insurance data. Powerdata provided expertise in the design of a new data warehouse environment for the delivery of Tableau / Cognos operational reporting capability. Sensis Igen Project (Data Warehousing/Reporting) Powerdata provided data modelling, development, and reporting SME expertise on the IGEN data warehouse Oracle project at Sensis / Telstra. Our team delivered over 30 critical reports and a range of data mart, across 4 business areas. Reporting solutions included Business Objects and Microsoft reporting. Telstra Telstra Data Warehouse Powerdata designed, configured, and enhanced data loading and reporting within Telstra s Teradata warehouse environment.

11 NEW SOUTH WALES CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES Dept of Education and Training Business Analysis Services Powerdata provided As-Is and To-Be analysis to various projects. Transport for NSW Azure Data Factory Powerdata also provided data analysis, design, programming, configuration, test, maintenance, support and deployment in SQL Server and SSIS Services, and Power BI to be used in Azure Cloud. The project involved the analysis, extraction, transforming and loading data from the CTABS application and builds, visualization, and reporting capability. The goal was to provide data insights for the community transport business unit to better manage the deployment of services to new and existing customers.

12 ACT CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES Dept of Defence Cognos Ehealth Project Powerdata developed a number of reports relating to financial, clinical, and management matters using Cognos suite of products Dept of Health and Ageing Business Analysis, software development, software testing and database administration services Powerdata designed a new service provider data dictionary and provided Cognos Business Intelligence and web application software development. Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet Dept of Employment Australian Taxation Office DTA Business Analysis, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM configuration Qlik View Development Business Analysis and testing services Interaction Design Powerdata provided business analysis expertise to various projects working with MS Dynamics CRM. We managed the configuration within the MS Dynamics CRM to reflect business requirements. Powerdata designed and consulted on the development of a Qlik View data model, reporting capability and best practice for the department. Powerdata provided business analysis and testing services for two and a half years to the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) program. Our consultants increased members satisfaction (a simpler site led to easier navigation, and reduction in frustration) Developed a fully responsive design framework. We used key research insights to drive design decisions with a massive reduction in unnecessary content, and complexity, we created a highly efficient, simple member experience. We worked and integrated into agile project plans, and deliverable schedules while meeting all stakeholder needs.

13 SOUTH AUSTRALIA CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES Dept of Environment (DEWNR) Sybase DBA services Powerdata delivered Sybase development, maintenance and support services. Including data integration using SSIS, SSRS, PowerBI. Dept of Infrastructure (DPTI) Business Intelligence services Powerdata delivered best practice and expertise in Oracle database development and Business Objects services.

14 QUEENSLAND CASE STUDIES ORGANISATION PROJECT SERVICES Dept of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services (DCCP) Dept of Education and training Ergon Energy Reporting strategy and architecture (MS Architecture Improvement Project) Project Management services Data migration, Business Intelligence administration and testing services Project Objective: Convert ICMS System (MS InfoPath) to MS HTML platform. ICMS Integrated Info Path (200520) Client Management System SQL Server 2008 Database, HTML 5, MS, Borland Caliber (11.3), Undertook business analysis to develop high level and detailed business requirements for a self- service model of performance reporting. Develop specifications of data items including data. Powerdata managed the planning, development and implementation of corporate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects, by using project and change management techniques; to ensure that the Department s strategic objectives were met. Powerdata provided resources in the data migration and reporting space (SAP HANA, BODS, Business Objects, BW) expertise. Microsoft stack development with.net, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS,PowerBI)

15 PREFERRED SUPPLIER ARRANGEMENTS We also offer IT contingent workforce through different preferred supplier arrangement with:

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17 CLIENT ENGAGEMENT MODEL Powerdata has a number of engagement models to cater for our client s specific requirements, including models to deliver the entire project, partner with client s in-house team and provide expert advice or partner with the client s preferred service provider.