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BI Strategy & Architecture
Deliver a high-level business vision, BI architecture, and BI roadmap to help maximize return on present and future BI investments

  • Focus BI initiatives on the areas of greatest value to stakeholders and defer or eliminate areas of limited value
  • Provide an understanding of requirements to support architecture decisions and prevent over- or under-investing
  • Drive BI architecture decisions that enable analytical capabilities to be added incrementally

BI Tool Selection
Define and prioritize BI requirements, evaluate the BI tool vendor landscape, and select the BI tool that best fits client’s business objectives and overall IT strategy

  • Create evaluation process tailored to client’s specific needs
  • Define / prioritize BI platform requirements
  • Define the platform evaluation criteria
  • Create vendor RFP
  • Collect and evaluate vendor responses
  • Manage the vendor Proof of Concept process

BI Education & Training
Deliver lab-based training covering best practices in data warehousing and business intelligence, including the advanced use of specific tools

  • Provide more than simple “tool training” or “how to use the system” training
  • Create a custom curriculum to fit your knowledge needs by bundling any combination of 6 Hands-On-BI classes (Business Analytics, BI Strategy, OLAP, Data Mining, Statistical Analysis for BI, and Requirements Gathering)

BI Tool Rationalization Strategy
Help an organization make sense of its multiple-tool infrastructure, and deliver an actionable strategy for rationalizing usage of BI tools

  • Assess current licensing, deployment, costs, usage and ROI of multiple BI tools in an enterprise
  • Conduct Gap/Overlap Analysis of functionality/needs across BI tools, projects and/or organizations
  • Determine which tool is right for each project
  • Deliver Tool Rationalization Document, Assessment Matrix and Briefing

BI Maturity Assessment
Employ an assessment that clearly identifies the qualities of a BI system and the steps to achieve them  

  • Gather and understand current and future business objectives and architecture
  • Provides an outline of the best processes for achieving the optimal state of a BI system
Develop a report card on an organization’s current state as well as recommendation that enable analytical capabilities to support decision making

 

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