Executive Summary :

The Client is a market leader in key insurance and investment product lines. By leveraging ongoing product innovation, knowledge and experience, their strong brand, and a broad and powerful distribution system, they are continually seeking to better serve their customers. As always, The Client also takes a disciplined, financially conservative approach to growth, maintaining a diversified product portfolio and the essential elements of sound but conservative asset management. The Client is the U.S. division of a leading Corporation, a highly esteemed global enterprise based in Toronto, Ontario. The Client is the world's fourth largest, and North America's second largest, life insurer by market capitalization the Client has a large implementation of Cognos 7 environment that provides the reporting functionalities to the internal and external users.

The Client wanted to migrate the current Cognos 7 environment to a Cognos 8 environment in a phased manner, which covers
the data mart like marketing, sales, finance, etc.

Following describes the components in Cognos 7 that had to be migrated to Cognos 8 environment.

Nrit is a Business Intelligence consulting company with expertise in all the areas needed to implement a successful "BI" strategy for its clients. Nrit has significant experience in the analysis and design of data warehouses and data marts, the extraction, transformation & loading (ETL) of data across systems and the reporting and distribution of this information to the enterprise. Nrit has expertise with the industry's leading vendor's products -- such as Cognos, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Informatica and Ascential, which makes them uniquely qualified to bring best of breed solutions to its clients.

Nrit has been implementing enterprise-wide BI solutions for Fortune 100 Clients for the last 9 years. Nrit has a vast experience in development of Data Warehouse and Data Marts, with a strong understanding of Data Architecture and Data Modeling along with the experience of using Cognos 7 and Cognos 8.

Nrit enabled the Client to implement Cognos tools to build Financial, Sales and Marketing reports, analytical cubes to provide them with a total reporting solution. This enables the management to track, trend and analyze their information across the various business units.

The activity performed by nrit in this Project is listed below.