Data Management

Data is the lifeblood of the information age.  Today’s asset manager needs the capability, tools, and culture to gather and analyze data to make better business decisions.  Beyond being data-driven, we advocate becoming data-centric, where data is a first-class architecture component. Applications will change over time, but data remains a permanent enterprise asset.

Leaders are investing in a data culture because it is the key to unlocking efficiency, intelligence, agility, and innovation. We advocate a framework based on three key pillars:

    1. Curate enterprise data assets into an Enterprise Data Platform
    2. Ensure data is trustworthy and accessible through Data Governance
    3. Empower staff through Self-Service capabilities

We help our clients transform by architecting and building their modern data platform.

Learn the secret to building a data culture.

Data Consulting Services

DATA STRATEGY

A well-defined Data Strategy aligns data-related activities with an organization’s overall goals, facilitating informed decision-making, enhancing operational efficiency, and unlocking insights for innovation and growth. It outlines how an organization intends to manage and leverage its data assets to achieve business objectives. It includes a set of principles, guidelines, and action plans that address data collection, storage, processing, security, governance, analysis, and utilization.

DATA GOVERNANCE

Olmstead’s winning data governance framework is customized to fit your organization to accelerate your data governance capabilities. Achieve trustworthy and accessible data, enabling effective management of your data assets throughout their lifecycle.

ENTERPRISE DATA PLATFORM

An Enterprise Data Platform is a centralized, integrated infrastructure that enables organizations to store, manage, process, and analyze data from various sources, facilitating decision-making and improving operational efficiency. We help you curate your enterprise data assets into a data-centric architecture that is foundational for your data strategy.

MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT

Master Data Management is the process of identifying, categorizing, and maintaining a single, authoritative source of key business data to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability across systems and processes. Leverage our expertise to improve your business operations effectiveness using properly mastered investment data and client data.

DATA ENGINEERING

Olmstead’s data engineers guide you in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and pipelines that enable the collection, transformation, and storage of data for effective analysis and business use.

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Business Intelligence is the process of analyzing and presenting data to support informed business decisions and strategic planning. We help you develop and implement data mining, reporting, and analysis methods to get the most out of your data.

AI & DATA SCIENCE

Olmstead utilizes data science techniques from statistics, machine learning, and domain knowledge to help you extract valuable insights, patterns, and knowledge from data, enabling informed decision-making and predictive modeling.

At Olmstead, our approach to empowering clients through data revolves around enhancing two key capabilities: Data Platform Maturity and Data Governance Maturity. By combining strategic design with practical Agile delivery, we ensure continuous delivery of value to your organization.

Featured Insights

Clients demand FASTIR outcomes from their Data Operating Model 

by | Nov 14, 2023 | Data Management | 0 Comments

An asset manager’s Data Operating Model needs to support the various scalability, agility, and intelligence challenges that asset managers face.  Asset management...

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Data Darwinism:  Evolution of Master Data Management

by | Sep 13, 2023 | Client Experience,Data Management,Investment Operations | 0 Comments

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the asset management industry experienced a seismic shift. Firms were forced to discard traditional sales methods like...

Small Asset Managers Can Now Do Big Things with Data

by | May 4, 2022 | Data Management | 0 Comments

An interesting trend we have seen is the growing appetite for transformation services from smaller asset managers. In the past, the mid to large to mega asset managers...

Top 3 Advantages of Data Virtualization

by | Jun 3, 2021 | Data Management | 0 Comments

My previous blog highlighted how transforming into a data-driven organization requires access to high-quality information from across the enterprise....

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Data is the New Application

by | Apr 29, 2021 | blog-homepage,Data Management | 0 Comments

Asset managers hire top talent and want to get the most out of them.  To do that, they need to be given the...

Data Management – The 4th Wave of Outsourcing

by | Mar 11, 2021 | Data Management,Investment Operations | 0 Comments

The latest evolution of asset management outsourcing is here: A new solution to the age-old problem of data management. These offerings bring a new class of...

Do You Have a Data-Centric Organization?

by | Feb 4, 2020 | Data Management | 0 Comments

There has never been any greater need for Investment Management firms to optimize the management, delivery and reporting of their enterprise data. Firms are being...

A Data-Centric Solution to Asset Managers’ Challenges

by | Feb 4, 2020 | Data Management | 0 Comments

Asset managers are tackling a bevy of new data-related requirements, driven by clients, boards, global regulators and the FinTech disruptors. Many buy-side firms have...

Reducing Your “Data Tax”

by | Feb 4, 2020 | Data Management | 0 Comments

An investment manager is a complex web of data. In a data-intensive industry, few firms have mastered their reference data to create a single view of their “data truth”...

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