| Select Intellectual Capital Asset: | Myers-Holum, Inc. (MHI) is the recognized leader specializing in complete business integration solutions for the world-wide enterprise. Our scorecards contain over 300+ metrics and measurements which equate directly to business requirements. We've built and established the metadata around each of the metrics to provide the best and most robust answers from all of the vendors involved. Each metric is tied to business requirements, and through our consulting process is weighted and defined as to the level of importance for the customer. From there, the customer can easily and quickly specify the deliverables that go into the POC process. Because of our unique position in the industry (we do not resell software), we are objective and can assist in the test case definition, vendor selection, review of vendor RFI's, and POC oversight. Contact us today!
 | ETL/ELT Tool Score Card | | | The ETL Scorecard is available for free. It is an Excel template that contains many of the best-practice scoring items that should be considered when evaluating ETL/Data Integration Tools. There are no tool vendors listed in the Blank scorecards. Currently under version 1.3 release, this scorecard will evolve. We would love to hear your comments, and requests for other tool sets to add. Some of the major scoring sections contained include: General/Company Stability, Architecture, Metadata, Source System Support, Target System Support, Functionality, Implementation, Costs and Other Factors. Each of these sections contain a long list of items on which to score. It is a weighted scoring mechanism with each major section adding up to 100%. All major sections have sub-sections. For instance: Functionality contains: Data Profiling, Data Cleansing, CDC, Data Conformity, Kimball Methodology Guidelines, and more! Request Download | | Metadata Tool Scorecard | | | Version 1.0 - Our Metadata Vendor Scorecard is available for free. It contains over 300 different metrics for the vendors including cost, availability of consultants, and a few of the following areas: Vendor Strength, Architecture, Overall Metadata, Business Rules Metadata, Data Metadata, Process Metadata, Real-Time/Streaming Metadata, Functionality, XML Support, Version Control System. These are dual-weighted scoring mechanisms, which are easy to fill out and establish. Feel free to change the weighting mechanisms all you'd like, or even add your own items to measure. Please keep in mind that there are features on the Metadata Tool Score Card which do not yet exist within many of the metadata tools out there. These are options that the tool vendors should strive to meet, as much of the metadata itself is available - through RDBMS engines, data mining engines, and other sources - unfortunately the metadata tools of today have been very focused on the process and technical sides of metadata. Request Download | | IQ (Information Quality / Data Quality) Vendor Scorecard | | | Our IQ Scorecard is UNIQUE in the industry. We enlisted the help of Larry English (Board of Advisors) and produced a list of scoring elements which really separate the vendors abilities to provide accurate information. Our IQ Scorecard looks at all the latest and greatest information quality initiatives, and drives home the new features required in tomorrows business. A few of the following areas in the scorecard are: Engine Architecture, Security, IQ Assessment, Business Rule Discovery, Re-engineering and cleansing, metadata management, GUI design and development, and version control. Each of these categories have a set of major scoring elements that will help you pick the best vendor. If you want to save time and money on your vendor selection, then let us help you with your effort. Contact us today! Request Download | | RDBMS (Database) Vendor Scorecard | | | The RDBMS Scorecard takes a hard look at the flexibility and scalability of the database engines. We worked with Richard Winter and Dan Linstedt (Board of Advisors) to establish the right criteria for evaluating RDBMS engines that can start small, and grow to the terabyte level systems our customers demand. We've looked at many of the new features, and created a few new categories that the RDBMS engine of the future will house. It puts all the database vendors on an even playing field by focusing on your important business requirements. Some of the areas in the RDBMS Scorecard include: Engine Architecture, Platform, DBA Toolset, Metadata, SQL Standards, Indexing and Table Features, Storage Architecture, Import and Export, Real-Time Support, High Availability and Fail-over, and XML support. Don't be over-burdened trying to reconstruct the wheel. Let our 20 years of expertise guide you in the right direction from the start. Execute your POC the right way, call us today! Request Download |
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