Confluent Data Systems (CDS) is a veteran owned, Software As A Service (SaaS) provider and applied research consulting company. We provide information management and analysis to organizations across the corporate landscape.

CDS leverages knowledge, experience, and technology with established analysis techniques to deliver effective business solutions that help clients improve their efficiency and profitability.

CDS helps clients make better informed decisions. We develop analysis solutions that include operations research methods, web applications, and program management, which add value to the customer’s bottom line.

CDS analysis follows operations research best practices, the highest level of software and security standards, and Project Management Institute standards– we build solutions by combining these three disciplines through a defined engineering approach.

We assess – conduct analysis – prototype – provide full development – implement We unify operations research with software to produce integrated solutions

Analysis using applied research: advanced analytical methods, operations research, and statistical analysis to find the most efficient use and allocation of your limited resources

Software development: custom web-based applications integrated with our software products across multiple platforms, databases, and languages

Project Management: efficiency and value to our clients through an industry standard methodology

• Reduce Cost: analytical results can be implemented now and into the future providing efficient operations and scalability of your systems
• Enable Decision Making: consider alternatives, predict outcomes, ensure an understanding of risk, and determine an effective course of action
• Manage the Complexity: provide server, hardware, network, and data services as well as support internal processes
• Integrate Information: build efficiency through centralized and accessible systems and evaluate data statistically to identify trends to act upon
• Enable and Extend Collaboration: within your organization, your clients, and with CDS, we are your analyst & technology partner

• CDS develops and implement solutions using operations research methods; optimization, simulations, and economic analysis best practices:
  • Implement decision support systems to improve internal decision making or customer self help applications
  • Complete economic analysis on buy versus lease, labor versus capital mix, and other financial analyses
  • Develop and implement portfolio analyses using decision analysis and optimization
• Data analysis:
  • Assess, integrate, and consolidate disparate data sources
  • Identify trends and business opportunities
• Survey and statistical analysis:
  • Develop and design items and questionnaires to achieve client goals

• Survey and statistical analysis (continued):
  • Recommend survey methodology and data collection process
  • Process and review data, define and build complex data files
  • Analyze complex survey data
  • Develop web-based surveys
  • Prepare data documentation and user guides

CDS designs, develops, implements, and supports custom web-based applications from concept phase to a fully supported hosted solution.

We use industry standard technology: Microsoft.NET, Oracle, SQL Server, Windows, and Linux, which allows solutions to be accessed through any modern web browser.

• We develop, integrate, and implement custom software with CDS products:
  • Collaboration Portal supports internal and external interfaces with our collaborative Portal application, which is permissions based, group enabled, version controlled, and scalable.
  • Dashboards and Analytics (For Business Intelligence Reporting), provides web-based analytics that allow clients to examine data, customize dashboards, and support collaborative project analysis. These tools support analytics through data warehouses or smaller data-mart applications built on an industry leading Oracle grid.
  • Content Management empowers customers with the ability to change, manage, oversee, and extend their web presence and content.

• Project Initiation and Planning services where CDS subject matter experts join with the customer’s team to fully define their project, scope the deliverables, set success criteria, and establish the business case.
• Program and Portfolio Management provides on-site and off-site capabilities used to deliver an organized and profitable portfolio of programs that define strategic projects that must work together in a Program Architecture. This architecture establishes financial and reporting activities necessary to profitably manage your entire project portfolio.
• Project Execution where experienced Project Managers are on-site to provide direct coaching, management and assistance to the Project Team Members and extend visibility of the project to the Executive sponsor(s).

• Project Management Office (PMO) is established at the Executive level and provides Senior Leaders with integrated reporting for all programs and/or projects and includes: a toll gating system, common reporting, project management methods, executive and project manager coaching, and the full transition from CDS to internal customer Management.