Data Services

Elevation Data Group specializes in large scale data engineering and automation, as well as business intelligence design and chargeback contract validation. What makes us different is that each managed service has been specifically designed for dental industry application. Our core data service products include:

Transaction Data Cleaning & Unification

If you receive large quantities of data in many different forms and formats, you’re likely overwhelmed. Some partners may send a spreadsheet with just the basic sales information. Others may send full customer details. Some files may be Excel documents, and others may come through EDI or txt files. Some may send 5-digit zip codes, while others send only 3-digit. Some may be Canadian postal codes. Further, some partners may send incorrect item codes,  outdated cost figures, or none at all.

If any of the above sound familiar, you are likely stuck in a tough spot between having valuable data and being able to use it because you can’t bring it together in a cohesive manner. This can be crippling in a rapidly changing industry like dental. Fortunately, Elevation Data Group has developed a way to streamline this process and make it up to 21x faster and more reliable than manual processing.

Using advanced ETL methods and custom programming, we can clean and process an entire month’s data in minutes! Each individual data file is mapped to a central database structure, where the data is cleaned and modified to match universal standards, i.e. address standardization, item code prefix elimination, and syncing to your territory and price tables. Even special processes such as unit of measure conversion and currency conversion are completed automatically according to your standards. Each cleaning or transformation rule (and there are usually hundreds), is executed nearly instantly, and the result is fresh, actionable data delivered sparkling clean in one place.  Unlike a basic cleaning software program, Elevation Data Group also conducts a thorough manual review to validate the automation and correct any exceptions. 100% of your data is processed and no record is left out.

With this cleaned, unified, and validated data set, you are now able to bring the data to life in custom reports, visualizations, and workflows.

Business Intelligence Design

The team at Elevation Data Group includes certified Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI and Qlik designers. Our team is also well versed in common query languages such as SQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. This means that we’re system agnostic – whichever system you deploy, we can expertly create impactful reports and dashboards in a fraction of the time it would take to train an internal resource. We are also able to deploy hybrid Business Intelligence solutions where we build out the foundational queries and visualizations and train your internal staff in the process.

Our team is also trained in proper visualization design principals that aid user experience (UX). This is the practice of how to display data in a way that is most effective. For example, when analyzing sales figures, it can more digestible to use parameters to dynamically toggle a chart from revenue to profit, as opposed to creating a separate chart for each. This UX discipline goes a long way toward the effective consumption of business intelligence for your team.

Our commitment to proper Business Intelligence design also ensures that you don’t waste time and money on a solution that fails to deliver. Request a demo of our Business Intelligence solutions to learn more.

Chargeback Management

The fastest growing segment of the dental industry is Special Markets. This includes several classifications of multi-practice associations including Dental Service Organizations (DSO), Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO), group practices, mid-market accounts, government agencies, schools, and many more.

Now more than ever, this fast-growing segment requires unique contract management and specialized pricing models that are managed between manufacturing and distribution. These complex data requirements take hours just to review, and are nearly impossible to manage on a strategic level without a dedicated data environment built just for this purpose.

Elevation Data Group has developed a revolutionary Chargeback Management platform that allows to you build out a library of special market contract rules and validate your incoming transaction reports against those rules automatically. Approved records sync with your standard sales data and appear seamlessly with your existing reports. Rejected records are sent back to your partners for re-submission.

Distributors can also leverage Elevation Data Group’s fully managed chargeback system for tracking and submitting for chargeback reimbursements.

Don’t let complex technical requirements prevent you from competing in this valuable and growing market.

Probabilistic Matching

Often when an organization owns a large customer database as part of their CRM or ERP system, a new challenge arises: connecting partner-provided customer lead or sales information to this rich inhouse customer data set. The data received likely doesn’t match the information in the customer system, so a different kind of computing tool is needed to match the two data sets together.

Probabilistic matching is a process where two similar data sets are broken down into identifiable information and compared to each other to determine matching records. For example a CRM customer list and a dealer-provided sales tracing report may both contain physical address, phone number, organization name and doctor name. With this information, Elevation Data Group’s Probabilistic Matching program breaks down each component and “tokenizes” the field to normalize the values. Then, the system compares each sales record to each CRM record and scores the match probability for each component. The component scores are weighted and combined according to custom rules that fit the organizations match risk profile, and the output records are given a final match probability.

The art of probabilistic matching gives organizations a way to accurately blend data with no common unique identifier, unlocking a more sophisticated level of intelligence and the recognition of unseen opportunity.

Territory Analysis

Territory planning is an important and intensive process each organization must revisit frequently in order to maximize the effectiveness of their sales team and service levels. Territory planning requires a heavy dose of reliable sales data, as well as business-specific input. Factors such as sales goals, product offering, team makeup, economic trends, staffing requirements, mobility, and compensation features all must be weighed to draw appropriate conclusions.

We have developed a robust territory analysis program that pairs evolving market and economic indicators alongside your distinct business approach in order to assess your current territory structure and areas of greatest opportunity, along with quantifiable trends to support long term strategic planning.