Client Profile:
With a heritage dating back to 1887, Ameritas is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is affiliated with UNIFI Companies - Ameritas Life, Acacia Life, Union Central Life and their affiliated companies. UNIFI Companies offers a wide range of insurance and financial services to individuals, families and businesses. These products and services include life insurance; annuities; individual disability income insurance; group dental, eye care and hearing care insurance; retirement plans; investments; banking and public finance.

Project Opportunity:
Ameritas and the UNIFI Companies are embarking on a project that will ultimately result in the development of a Business Intelligence (BI) function. The intent is to create an environment that will provide efficiencies measured through increased productivity, cost reduction and quality improvement.

Project Solution:
The Raikes School Design Studio team will work with UNIFI to create a foundation for the future of its BI function. It will develop a BI system that will reduce the business lines' dependency on scarce IT resources, enabling them to obtain customer data from various systems when needed in a timely manner.

Technologies:
Oracle Database
WebFOCUS
IBM InfoSphere DataStage