Data Enterprise Architecture
GraySail can help you design a robust data warehouse and analytics infrastructure, implement a departmental datamart to analyze sales and financial performance, and architect an enterprise data warehouse which will scale to terabytes of data storage. GraySail solutions emphasize flexibility and minimize total cost of ownership, while meeting your business needs.

The best solution every time
Unlike most architecture service providers, GraySail doesn't push a specific platform or product line. Instead, we take the time to understand your infrastructure and support environment and recommend the configuration that makes the most economic sense for you. GraySail uses software products from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and others -- including well-supported open source software products -- to make sure you get the best performance and flexibility while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership. GraySail professionals use their proven industry experience to successfully deploy OLTP, OLAP, and OLMP solutions on a variety of platforms. The main objective is to do everything possible to make sure that you realize a maximum return on your investment.

Data Warehouse Consulting
GraySail specializes in understanding complex data and putting it to work for the enterprise. By using proven database tools paired with innovative Java technology, clients are able to realize the benefit of data repositories that create value and exceptional return on investment.

Data warehouses
Dimensional data warehouses have become a staple of front-office business intelligence operations over the past fifteen years. GraySail leverages dimensional warehouse architecture by enhancing it with state-of-the-art data transformation technology, and then applying it to complicated data integration problems. The resulting data systems have been described as “revolutionary” and “must have” by clients.

GraySail's data integration solutions take data in a relatively raw form and produce information products that are ready for use, including charts, maps, and spreadsheets.

Data transformation
Load data in one file format, extract, data in a different format. GraySail works with each client to ensure that file loading and transformation meet established enterprise standards.

Integrated data systems from GraySail increase information efficiency by removing platform and format bottlenecks and allowing data technicians and enterprise decision makers to have seamless access to a shared repository.

Data Portal Development
Data portals offered by GraySail leverage data integration technology to solve or significantly reduce the problems of data integration, format manipulation, and distribution for key exploration data. A GraySail data portal is a flexible tool that helps you put your data to work.

Enterprise portal
Built on fully scalable, three-tier application architecture, a GraySail data portal brings key decision-making information to the enterprise desktop. A GraySail data portal allows users to browse existing data, insert or update new data, view and print dynamic reports or maps, and even register for email notification when new data becomes available. While giving data workers seamless access to raw data and file extracts, a GraySail data portal focuses on providing end-use information products such as charts, maps and spreadsheets that give the enterprise decision maker access to the knowledge of the enterprise.

Innovative data technology
A GraySail data portal uses dimensional data warehouse architecture coupled with an intuitive web interface that is made to scale to thousands of concurrent users. Data portals utilize industry standard databases, and serve data using a platform-independent Java front end. Flexible loaders and a unique data translator system make it possible to quickly integrate unique or proprietary data into the same framework.

Secured Web interface
Secured Web interfaces Allows access to data and files from any workstation at any time. Both GraySail's public key infrastructure (PKI) and Virtual Private Network (VPN) options allow secure, encrypted access using almost any web browser on either Windows or Unix platforms. A GraySail data portal recognizes different user types and offers custom interfaces and restricted access to data functions or sensitive data. Graphical navigation makes data searching and analysis more rapid and productive.

Data format flexibility
Upload data in the file format you want, download in a different format. GraySail works with each client to ensure that file loading and transformation meet established enterprise standards. An authorized user browsing the web system simply selects a data file to load, clicks the upload button, and the file is transmitted, parsed, and loaded to the database where it is immediately searchable.

Internet GIS services
A GraySail data portal is optionally integrated with ESRI Arc-IMS 4, the leading internet mapping solution. A GraySail data portal offers an integrated GIS browser, or you can connect directly to Arc-IMS spatial services from existing Arc-GIS workstations or other compatible GIS products.

Personalized for each user
Each user has a special view of data of special interest to them. An automatic notification system sends email or web notifications to users who have identified interest in a type of data whenever new or updated information becomes available.

Quality information products
A GraySail data portal is designed to take data in a relatively raw form and produce information products that are ready for use, including charts, maps, and spreadsheets.

A hosted solution
For those seeking a fully outsourced option, GraySail data portals are offered as an affordable hosted solution, utilizing GraySail's state of the art scalable servers and secured high-bandwidth internet. Computer upgrades, backups, data loading, database administration, and security are all the responsibility of GraySail. Clients can also host their own data portal servers while still taking advantage of GraySail services and support.

Analytic Services
If your organization has ever wrestled with the issue of extracting business information from dozens of data sources, you understand the complexity of real-world data analysis. GraySail thrives on this complexity, and helps you derive the highest return on your data investment.

Service in depth
GraySail provides services to assist you during every phase of a data mining engagement, from business problem identification through implementation and deployment of a data mining or analytic application. This includes service offerings to support your existing database, data warehouse, decision support products, and application solutions. This depth of experience enables GraySail to deliver fully integrated, end-to-end data mining solutions across numerous industries and business problems.

GraySail specializes in custom analytic applications for complex scientific or statistical data. Often, these are available as a data portal solution.