Destination Data, Director
Business Intelligence
Our strengths are Business Intelligence, Behavioral Targeting, Online Advertising, and Real-time Data Warehousing. If your interests lie in any of these areas, with SSD you will have an advantage of working with professionals who have built successful projects for several companies in this field. (see our Featured Case Studies) Our advantages are:
High quality / Low cost
We have developed excellent long-term relationship with many clients who offer BI products and services, and we would be happy to provide you with their references upon request. Since many our engineers are very professional in Business Intelligence / Business Analysis, we can provide BI-software development services at a price much lower than that of our competitors. Added the fact that we have access to the highly-skilled low-cost labor market in Eastern Europe, we are able to offer our clients the most competitive rates for the development and maintenance of high-performance sophisticated BI projects. Working with us removes many hassles associated with hiring domestic staff, adding office infrastructure, paying high salaries and benefits, and incurring termination and litigation costs. We can provide you with the domestic level of BI software development services without the burden of the associated expenses.
Experience in BI / BA field
Throughout its history of serving successful clients in Business Intelligence and Consumer Behavior Analysis space, SSD created a cohesive highly-skilled cross-functional team of business analysts, software engineers, database designers, QA engineers, system administrators, performance optimization specialists, and security specialists. We hire only the best IT professionals with 5-25 years of relevant experience, and we require all new hires to complete an extensive technical training to learn the best coding practices recommended by the industry leaders, such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Sun, Oracle, and others. Our engineers are certified by companies such as Microsoft, Teradata, Oracle, and BrainBench. Additionally, we employ several experts with PhD degrees in Mathematics, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Networking, and Security. We analyze your product requirements in tight cooperation with your on-site team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, and we help our clients to track and prioritize all functionality change requests. That enables our clients to rest assured in the reliability and quality of our service.
Excellent communication, status tracking, and reporting
You can communicate with all our developers in English as if they were in your local office, and you can expect them to seamlessly integrate into your company's culture. We established excellent communication processes with our US and EU clients that include daily Skype meetings, desktop sharing software, video conferences, source control software, project management software, and other distance collaboration tools. Our clients can continuously track the status of all their projects through a centralized project management / status tracking software. You will receive a detailed project schedule that our project managers will update regularly. Finally, our experience with proactive risk management allows us to avoid risks early and to notify you about the potential dependencies and issues as soon as possible.
Scalability of the workforce
Since we work with several BI clients, we can afford maintaining a pool of instantly available high-demand professionals whom we can easily add to your project as soon as you need them. That keeps our clients away from the risks of hiring extra staff whom they might not need immediately. On the other hand, we require our engineers to write the code in a way that your domestic team can easily understand and support in case you choose to bring part of the development back on-shore. Finally, due to the competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and team-oriented culture where A-players thrive and learn from other A-players, we enjoy one of the lowest turn-over rates in the country. So our clients always have the certainty that they can work with the same team for years.
DCASTechnologies is the premier provider of online lead generation and validation solutions in the consumer marketing & advertising space. At the dawn of Lead Generation / Co-Registration industry, the company founders identified a unique unaddressed opportunity for a reliable third party service that would centrally manage lead generation activities, as well as eliminate incomplete or inaccurate information collected through consumer-filled online forms. Such service would allow Advertisers and Marketers to differentiate themselves in a highly-competitive playground by the quality of their leads that would translate into increased conversion rates. The company turned to SSD to develop its flagship product ASCEND that was meant to be the leading solution for high-quality lead generation. See more...
The existing Business Intelligence system GYMS 1.0, which DHL used to optimize pricing and analyze sales, had a number of deficiencies that needed to be addressed as soon as possible. Teradata, DHL IT solutions provider, faced with the challenge to increase the quality and consistency of loaded data, eliminate reference gaps, and to make the web-based user interface more user-friendly and comprehensible. GYMS uses three data warehouses of 10TB updated in real-time from 6,500+ DHL offices in 220+ countries and territories, each having local, business and legal peculiarities regarding the processing of 1.5+ billion shipments per year. Making any improvements or changes in such a system required a rare combination of technical expertise, superior attention to detail, and tight cooperation with globally distributed business analysts at various responsibility levels. To meet DHL request under the tight budget and short time constraints, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. The company decided to extend its core product used by Fortune 500 companies with major new features, and to repackage it into a new one called AcquireVision, marking this way the next step in its growth. After SSD successfully delivered its AcquireLocal product targeted at small and medium businesses, AcquireWeb contracted SSD for the second time to develop AcquireVision system that would combine an even greater accuracy of consumer targeting with the effectiveness of advanced frequency-based programs. See more...
ClearSight Interactive is a rapidly expanding start-up that provides a comprehensive range of behavioral targeting solutions for Advertisers and Publishers. The company was founded with a bold intention to revolutionize the online advertising industry by bridging the divide between online and offline universe of consumer data. Having partnered with largest database marketing companies, such as Experian and I-Behavior, ClearSight then needed to develop industry-leading tools that would drastically improve conversions and sales of its potential clients through connecting consumers' online behavior with their offline profile data in a way that has never been done before.
ClearTarget is one of the three products comprising ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. The product was meant to be a middle-tier solution between Publishers' websites and their Ad Serving platform. ClearTarget would enable Publishers to multiply the accuracy of their ad targeting, increasing this way both the value and the attractiveness of their assets for Advertisers. Given SSD prior experience in cost-effective development of industry-leading behavioral targeting solutions for AcquireWeb and DCASTechnologies companies, ClearSight partnered with SSD for the development of ClearTarget product as part of its ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. See more...
As DHL has been adopting an increasing variety of sophisticated visibility and planning methodologies, gleaning a complete picture from disparate data sources became an extremely difficult and confusing task, often performed manually by individuals with varying knowledge of the system. Teradata, DHL IT solutions provider, was contracted to develop a new reporting tool called OneView that would give a holistic view of revenue and operations and provide a comprehensive web interface to manage client accounts. The tool would use a cross functional data mart and produce detailed reports for DHL business analysts and senior management. DHL has three data warehouses of 10TB cross-referenced with numerous satellite databases updated from 6,500+ offices in 220+ countries and territories, each having local, business and legal peculiarities regarding the processing of 1.5+ billion shipments per year. Dealing with such a mix of business entities and legacy products required a rare combination of technical expertise, superior attention to detail, and tight cooperation with globally distributed business analysts at various responsibility levels. To meet DHL request under the tight budget and short time constraints, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. The company came to SSD at its maturity stage, aiming to expand its industry presence from Global 2000 companies to small & medium business segment. AcquireWeb needed to develop a new AcquireLocal product that would bring the power of a proven customer acquisition program designed for large global companies to the local level. The new product would leverage AcquireWeb massive prospect database reaching to 75mil+ US households (130mil+ individuals) to give the possibility to local businesses both to leverage their existing customer connections and to engage new prospects, maximizing this way their sales growth at the local level. See more...
DCASTechnologies is the premier provider of online lead generation and validation solutions in the consumer marketing & advertising space. After having gained momentum in the Lead Generation industry with its flagship product ASCEND, also developed by SSD, DCASTech realized the opportunity for a related offering targeted at an adjacent industry segment. The product would allow publishers, database owners and ad networks to reliably validate the accumulated leads eliminating incomplete or inaccurate information collected from consumers through co-registration online forms. The company came back to SSD to contract the development of its next product called APERTURE that was meant to help ad networks and publishers to raise the quality level associated with the leads they were selling, and, thus, to competitively differentiate themselves by the increased conversion rates. See more...
ClearSight Interactive is a rapidly expanding start-up that provides a comprehensive range of behavioral targeting solutions for Advertisers and Publishers. The company was founded with a bold intention to revolutionize the online advertising industry by bridging the divide between online and offline universe of consumer data. Having partnered with largest database marketing companies, such as Experian and I-Behavior, ClearSight then needed to develop industry-leading tools that would drastically improve conversions and sales of its potential clients through connecting consumers' online behavior with their offline profile data in a way that has never been done before.
ClearAnalytics is one of the three products comprising ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. The product would be a campaign analysis tool that camps onto existing website analysis software packages. It would allow Advertisers to evaluate the effectiveness of their online ads through matching phone and in-store customer transactions back to 100 million identified online user profiles in order to track back the advertisements these customers viewed and provide real-time insight into which media placements had the greatest contribution toward offline conversion. Given SSD prior experience in cost-effective development of industry-leading behavioral analysis and business intelligence tools for AcquireWeb and DCASTechnologies companies, ClearSight partnered with SSD for the development of ClearAnalytics product as part of its ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. See more...
DHL Express is the world's largest provider of international express mail services represented in 220+ countries and territories and processing over 1.5 billion shipments per year. To manage its rapidly growing data infrastructure, DHL contracted Teradata (NYSE:TDC), one of the most well-known providers of Data Warehousing and Analytics solutions. As DHL had been increasingly adopting a variety of sophisticated business analysis and planning techniques, Teradata faced the need to provide a growing number of automated reports and Business Intelligence tools for DHL business analysis and general managers, who were pressed to increase efficiency and explore more ways to generate revenue. To meet these needs, Teradata enrolled the services of SSD teams who had extensive experience in developing enterprise Business Intelligence tools under "Reselling under the Client's Brand" agreement. Since the beginning of this collaboration SSD was challenged to deliver over 80 large analytical projects of varying degree of sophistication and complexity. See more...
AcquireWeb is the source for making quality customer connections online. Founded in 2001, AcquireWeb offers email acquisition and customer management services to enable global companies to leverage existing offline customer relationships, lower online acquisition costs, create new cross-sell opportunities and improve their return on marketing investments. AcquireWeb has successfully collaborated with SSD on the development, market launch, and further maintenance of its flagship AcquireLocal and AcquireVision products. As the online advertising market was becoming more and more competitive, AcquireWeb sought new ways to leverage its proprietary 130mil permission-based prospects database. To win new Fortune 500 clients who were using other companies' products for customer acquisition, AcquireWeb commissioned SSD the development of web services and Real-Time Data API that would enable advertisers, marketers, and publishers to match fragments of customer data collected through their own channels with a complete customer profile gleaned from AcquireWeb proprietary database. Having a better knowledge of their prospects would enable these companies to increase the accuracy of their targeting and to immediate boost ROI. Thus, AcquireWeb Real-Time Data API was meant to be a strategic first step towards winning new clients and further strengthening AcquireWeb market presence. See more...
ClearSight Interactive is a rapidly expanding start-up that provides a comprehensive range of behavioral targeting solutions for Advertisers and Publishers. The company was founded with a bold intention to revolutionize the online advertising industry by bridging the divide between online and offline universe of consumer data. Having partnered with largest database marketing companies, such as Experian and I-Behavior, ClearSight then needed to develop industry-leading tools that would drastically improve conversions and sales of its potential clients through connecting consumers' online behavior with their offline profile data in a way that has never been done before.
ClearMail is one of the four products comprising ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. Similar to ClearTrigger, another product from the Suite, ClearMail would allow online retailers to identify the visitors who abandon their website through intelligently matching them to their profiles in 100mil-record database. In addition to ClearTrigger, ClearMail would give advertisers the possibility to re-engage with unregistered consumers via both e-mail and direct mail marketing communication channels. Given SSD prior experience in cost-effective development of industry-leading behavioral analysis and business intelligence tools for AcquireWeb and DCASTechnologies companies, ClearSight partnered with SSD for the development of ClearMail product as part of its ClearSight Behavioral Targeting Suite. See more...