What We Do
Whether in need of an end-to-end solution or looking to address a specific data challenge, we can guide and assist you in finding the right approach.
Data Collection
Data Repositories
Data Discovery & Delivery
Data Management Infrastructure
Enterprise Metadata Management
Subject Matter Expertise
Our Approach
Effectively Unifying Data & Metadata
Data Management Platform
We combine traditional and innovative data management tools, databases, and related technologies to ensure your data is efficiently and securely stored and managed, ready for delivery and use by consumers, analytical packages, or applications.
Metadata Management Platform
Our Rich Data Services (RDS) is a powerful proprietary framework to capture comprehensive knowledge (metadata) surrounding data, and provide easy access to both through flexible web services (API) and web applications, and deliver high quality data products to users and information systems.
A Custom-Tailored Solution
We understand eveyone has different needs and operating environments. We weave together data technology, metadata management, and domain best practices to elaborate a solution meeting your needs and fitting in your institution.
Infrastructure
Whether you seek to strengthen your existing infrastructure or starting from the ground up, we work with you to ensure you effectively leverage available database, big data, virualization, and related technologies to support your data operations. We can alternativelly host your solution in a cloud or private and secure virtual data enclave.
Strategy
From initial assessment to final execution, we offer our expertise at bringing all the pieces together as non-intrusively as possible. We recognize that managing changes is often a significant hurdle and can help you plan for a smooth transition over time.
Our Work
Selected ongoing or completed projects
Statistics Canada Rich Data Services
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Integrate and deploy our Rich Data Services platform in the Statistics Canada government cloud environment to provide a data and metadata dissemination replacement for the Data Access Division's Nesstar server.
Statistics Canada Ariā Classification Management System
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Integrate and deploy our Aria platform in the Statistics Canada government cloud environment to support the development and maintenance of classifications and concordances driving the data production systems and for publication of national standards.
MTNA COVID-19 Rich Data Services Project
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Establishment of a free public data catalog, powered by our Rich Data Services platform, around popular and contextual COVID-19 related datasets, curated to ensure high quality and facilitate research and monitoring.
Child Care Data Center
Following a successful prototyping phase, help Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) advance their Child Care Data Center by streamlining annual survey data collection processes and develop story telling data visualizations and digital reports for advocates and policymakers.
Continuous Capture of Metadata
Supported by a US National Science Foundation Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program grant, this collaborative research project aims to elaborate and implement innovative tools and techniques to automate the capture and understanding of data transformations applied by scripts and programs to datasets.
College Board Admitted Class Evaluation Service™ (ACES)
Deliver the next generation portal for the Admitted Class Evaluation Service™ (ACES) for College Board to produce ACCUPLACER, AP, CLEP, and SAT admission and/or placement validity reports to post-secondary institutions, states, and higher education systems.
Concept & Classification Management System
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Modernize Statistics New Zealand enterprise solution for managing concepts, classifications (code/categories), and concordances, to support day to day data production operations, facilitate the maintenance of national standards, and better serve researchers and the public.