Automation and Agility Drive Data Warehouse Development at Delta Community Credit Union

Delta Community Credit Union, Georgia's largest credit union with more than $5 billion in assets, used data warehouse automation and an agile development methodology together to successfully build and deploy an enterprise data warehouse in a short time frame that provided true business value, all with a small staff and limited budget. This presentation will review the key ingredients to enabling successful collaboration between business and IT in developing and deploying an EDW in an agile and yet sustainable manner. The presentation will discuss how Delta Community has successfully incorporated what are considered some industry best practices for data aggregation, reporting, and analysis.

What you will learn:

How Delta Community formed a deep partnership with all stakeholders: C-level, end user and IT
How Delta Community was able to start delivering rapidly and efficiently in a quick succession of projects with a small team
How automation and agility enable business-driven, data-driven data warehouse development
How Delta Community uses an "ELT" approach to data integration that leverages its MPP platform
Future plans for integrating big data and other data sources

Su Rayburn, the AVP of Information Management and Analytics for Delta Community Credit Union, has played various tactical as well as strategic roles within the data management, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics realm. With nearly 15 years in the financial services industry, her expertise is helping organizations discover and live up to their ultimate BI potential. She currently leads the BI practice at Delta Community and is responsible for both the definition of its BI roadmap and the implementation of its BI program.