Strategy 7 Corporation, an IBM Business Partner and one of the largest Systems Integrators in the United States, is the first IBM reseller in the world to provide U2STAGE product integration and professional services support.

U2STAGE is an extraction, transformation, and loading tool for data migration and integration, thereby easing the migration effort of Universe and UniData to MS SQL Relational Database. U2Stage is a revolutionary integration tool that allows customers to create a data warehouse to provide access for popular business intelligence and reporting tools.

With the initial engagement, STRATEGY 7 will provide U2Stage implementation services to long-term customer, GC Services, the largest privately held outsourcing supplier of call center management and collection agency services in North America. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, GC Services employs more than 10,000 people in more than 34 locations across the country.

By leveraging popular reporting and business intelligence tools, U2STAGE allows customers
to actually “mine the data.” To satisfy the reporting requirements GC Services has identified, Strategy 7 will work with the company's technical team to implement the move of data from their STAR collection database residing in UniVerse to a MS SQL Server Database. Strategy 7 will provide training and mentoring to GC Services personnel to enable further development and support of the ETL process using U2STAGE. This initiative is to be co-developed by GC Services personnel and STRATEGY 7 consultant(s).

“U2STAGE very effectively eases the data extraction effort,” comments Joe Rodriguez, President Strategy 7 Corporation. “U2STAGE supports the collection, integration and transformation of high volumes of data, with data structures ranging from simple to highly complex.”

U2STAGE delivers three key capabilities necessary for success in enterprise data integration:

• the most comprehensive connectivity to easily and quickly map multi-valued data to any target system;
• advanced development and maintenance tools, which speed implementation and simplify administration; and
• a scalable platform that can easily handle today's massive volumes of corporate data.

U2STAGE employs a “work as you think” design metaphor. Developers can use a top down dataflow model of application programming and execution, which allows them to create a visual sequential data flow. A robust graphical palette helps developers diagram the flow of data through their environment via simple GUI-driven, drag-and-drop design components.

About STRATEGY 7 Corporation

Strategy 7, comprised of a powerful group of professionals with verifying software and platform experience, provides significant data-driven strategies that include data warehousing, data mining, and data mapping solutions. The company’s expertise coupled with industry best practices maximizes the strength of the data integration and implementation process-- providing customers with the confidence of knowing that they have a solid partner working on their behalf. The company has been committed to IBM’s Data Management Products for more than 18 years with over 66,000 users. Clients include Berkshire Hathaway, United Parcel Service, MGM Mirage, Verizon, American Express, Union Pacific, EDS, State of New Mexico, State of California, State of Florida, Cigna, Baylor University, John Deere, British Tire and Rubber, Household Finance, Marriott, United Nations, and hundreds of others.

For more information regarding S7's services, contact sales@S7.com or call 949-719-9410.