(1997)

    Essential Strategies, Inc. was retained to develop the corporate entity/relationship model to support a comprehensive data warehouse project in one of the U.S.'s largest nationwide banks. This effort includes not only development of the models, but presentation of them to bank management in a series of sessions on a succession of topics.

    Of particular interest in this project was the definition of "product", which in the context of banking is not as straightforward as it is in manufacturing.

    (2004)

     Essential Strategies, Inc. was also retained to help a New York private bank select a commercial data model. This was done by first preparing a "sketch" conceptual model, in order to learn the essential components of private banking. This model was then used as a template to evaluate a set of three vendor models plus several models developed by the bank. Both the vendor models and the in-house models were "logical" models, in that they each reflected a particular relational database design. The conceptual model was useful to determine what concepts these models did and did not have.