Commercial & Industrial Real Estate

Company Info

Location: Dallas, TX

Company:  Preeminent industrial, commercial, and residential real estate firms in the nation. The Company  is highly active as both an investor and a developer for large, complex real estate initiatives.

Industry: Commercial & Residential Real Estate

Data Problems:  Disparate data across seven (7) business units, each with their own unique data elements. Time consuming, manual process using MS Excel to execute reporting.

Data Solutions: Performed a Strategic Data Assessment to assist company in building a data strategy to support their current and future needs across the enterprise, including the building out of a new data warehouse and a new data and analytics tool set.

Business Background

• Company, headquartered in Dallas TX, is an industrial, commercial and multi-family real estate developer.
• Company has seven (7) business units focused on different sectors of the market, each with their own unique data.

Opportunities

• Performed a comprehensive Strategic Data Analysis
• Assisted Client in building out their future state roadmap
• Recommended a centralized cloud based data warehouse to support enterprise data needs.
• Recommended new data and analytics software platforms including Tableau, Alteryx, WhereScape and Validatar to enable self-service and automation to increase trust and access to data.

Deliverables

• The development of a centralized data warehouse across its business units to more effectively govern and maintain data
• The adoption of leading data automation and analytics tools that would both drive down software cost and reduce time spent on wrangling data
• The creation of an analytics Center of Excellence to ensure analytics were integrated into business operations

Results

• Executed a Phase I "quick win" project for HR Team to prove out digital transformation solution and show quick time to value. 
• Increased trust in and access to data for stakeholders
• With new data and analytic software platforms, decreased time and complexity for delivering business unit reporting needs.
• Enabled delivery of data on COVID-19 employee testing in a single day versus several weeks using prior solution.