Cognos Partner Profile - Oakton Services Pty Ltd

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    Level 8 271 Collins Street
    Melbourne, Victoria , . 3000
    AUSTRALIA

Company Overview

    Oakton provides specialist end to-end IT services to plan, deliver and operate business systems, as well as business consulting, financial management and assurance services. For nearly 20 years, Oakton has consistently enabled some of Australia’s largest organisations to meet their technology and business needs with a flexible, cost effective, results-driven approach to service delivery. Oakton’s Information Management (IM) Practice is one of the largest and most experienced of its kind in Australia with over 200 permanently-employed consultants specialising in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Business Analytics, Data Management and Unstructured Data / Document Management. In the last five years alone, Oakton IM has successfully delivered over 600 engagements in the domain across a broad range of customers, including many if not most of the top 300 organisations in Australia. These engagements range from Information Management Strategy at the highest level through to numerous examples of end-to-end design, build and implementation projects covering the full spectrum of analysis, reporting, data warehousing and data integration requirements. Oakton’s enviable history of achievement for large and medium sized organisations in the private and public sectors is reflected by the testimony of customers to the quality of our service delivery and results.

Relationship with Cognos

    Oakton consulting services are based on strong technical knowledge of the Cognos suite. Our consultants have a mix of skills across the Cognos product stack – many are product specialists across multiple toolsets and versions. Oakton consultants have extensive and in-depth experience across the BI project lifecycle including datawarehouse design; ETL development with Data Manager and DataStage; modelling with Framework Manager and Transformer; and report authoring and dashboarding in Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, and PowerPlay. We also have expertise in Performance Management with Cognos Enterprise Planning and Budgeting, TM1 and scorecarding in Metrics Studio. In addition, Oakton have an on-going commitment to maintain certification level capabilities around these products.

Area of Expertise

    Oakton has 200 plus staff in the Information Management (IM) service line many with Cognos skills. The key highlights of Oakton’s capability include: · Full Life-cycle Service - As an end to end services organisation, we can assist throughout the Consult - Deliver - Operate lifecycle from the development of a BI strategy (Consult), through the build and implementation (Deliver) and finally transitioning into production support (Operate). · Enterprise Program Experience - Oakton is experienced in working on large scale enterprise projects and brings an understanding to how to manage the issues of user engagement, governance, training, successful production deployment, technical infrastructure management etc… · Extensive Local Capability - Oakton is arguably Australia’s leading information management services organisation, with over 200 staff dedicated to the information management space, providing us with deep capability across data warehousing and BI. · Offshore Capability – Oakton provide offshore IM environmental support and have access to specialist skills including developers and support technicians. · Value - Oakton provide the highest quality of service delivery backed by experienced consultants and proven IP at competitive rates. Oakton can provide a variety of engagement models to suit the client / engagement requirement including a combination of on shore / off shore models

Additional Offices

    Level 3 65 Berry Street
    North Sydney, NSW , 2060
    AUSTRALIA
    Contact: Don Hicks
    Title: Cognos Competency Lead, NSW
    Email: don.hicks@oakton.com.au
    Telephone: +61 2 9923 9800
    Fax: +61 2 9929 6731

    Level 1 46 Edward Street
    Brisbane, QLD , 4000
    AUSTRALIA
    45 Wentworth Street
    Kingston, ACT , 2604
    AUSTRALIA
    Contact: Paul Smith
    Title: Manager, Information Management
    Email: paul.smith@oakton.com.au
    Telephone: 61 2 6230 1997
    Fax: 61 2 6230 1919