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BI Assessment
Most companies have business intelligence applications to aid decision making. Business Intelligence solutions are evolutionary in nature and have a long maturity path and hence require good planning. At Drivestream we understand the value of your information assets and help provide an unbiased assessment of your current BI capabilities. A quick current state assessment is extremely useful to understand your current capabilities, your goals and gaps the gaps in your portfolio.
The following are some reasons for doing a current state assessment:
  • Performance issues - Current applications do not meet SLAs or are perilously close to their SLA
  • Data quality issues - Business users find data quality to be a major cause of concern
  • Operational issues - Current applications breaks too often and its takes too long to fix them
  • Flexibility issues - Enhancing current applications is very laborious and time consuming.
In a current state assessment we study current infrastructure, capabilities, processes, and procedures in the following areas:
  • Operations
    • Error Logging and Reporting
    • Audit and Controls
    • Support Process, Procedures, and Guidelines
  • Architecture & Design
    • Data Model and Architecture
    • Data Integration Architecture and Design
    • Reporting Architecture and Design
    • Database Architecture and Design
  • Data Quality and Governance
    • Data Profiling Process
    • Data Quality Assessment
    • Data Governance Structure, Policies, Workflow, Process, and Procedures
    • Master Data Management
Project Step Results

Drivestream provides a 10 – 20 day assessment (based on size of organization and BI foot print) designed to study current infrastructure, capabilities, processes, and procedures against industry reference architectures, capability and maturity models.

 

Drivestream team will

  • Conduct facilitated discussions with the technology team, business users, and management to study current processes and procedures used for developing, using, and maintaining BI applications
  • Review documentation pertaining to the architectures of the various BI application components like Data Model, Data Integration, etc.
  • Review methodologies and best practices used for developing BI applications.
At the completion the assessment you will get:
  • Information Management reference architecture showing current capabilities and gaps
  • Scorecard on the various components of the BI infrastructure
  • Capabilities maturity model showing current state of BI capabilities
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BI Strategy and Roadmap
Every organization needs a mission, business strategy, and good understanding of their goals to be successful. To sustain the success and stay ahead of competition they must constantly assess their performance against their goals, be adept and adapt to changing environments, and be predictive rather than reactive. To achieve this level of sustained success they must be clairvoyant by putting one of their most important assets to work - data. The Drivestream BI Strategy and Roadmap services help define the best configuration of people, process, and technology for an effective BI infrastructure and organization. Many organizations embark on very expensive BI projects without a clearly defined strategy. This only adds to the chaos and before long the projects are bound to fail. Having a sound BI strategy will help you understand your current and future data needs and provide a clear plan on how data must be collected, organized, stored, managed, and used to meet those needs.

You must consider creating a BI Strategy and Roadmap if you are:
  • Planning to implement a new BI solution
  • Expanding your BI capabilities by starting new initiatives
  • Revamping your current BI infrastructure since it is inadequate to meet business needs
  • Trying to realign BI capabilities with the corporate business strategy and goals
BI Strategy and Roadmap also acts as a tool to create and document the goals and vision of your organization. It details the path to accomplish the vision and enables you to fully leverage data assets to meet the growing business needs of your organization. It includes the following areas:
  • Strategic Capability Study
  • Conceptual Model
  • Data Architecture
  • Data Integration Architecture
  • Resource Analysis
  • Technical Architecture
  • Data Management
Project Step Results

Drivestream provides a 6 – 12 week strategy and roadmap (based on size of organization and BI foot print) service that will help define the direction to guide all BI and other related initiatives to better align with the business strategy and goals.

Drivestream team will

  • Conduct facilitated discussions with the executive management team to understand and document business strategy, vision, and goals.
  • Conduct facilitated discussions with the business users and management to understand data requirements.
  • Perform a current state assessment.
  • Define and document high level data requirements, architecture document, high level data management processes.
  • Develop a roadmap to implement the recommendations.
 At the completion the assessment you will get:
  • Conceptual Solution Architecture showing the various components of the end-state solution
  • High level data requirements document that contains information about the various business requirements and the data elements required to satisfy them
  • Business Capabilities Model showing current and future business capabilities
  • Data Architecture document that shows high level data movement, conceptual data model showing subject areas and business entities, and data organization
  • Recommendations on organization and processes to develop, support, and maintain the solution
  • A roadmap that breaks down the gap into projects and the sequencing of the projects
Tool Selection
We help select the tool that optimizes performance, maintenance, and growth and provides you the best return on investment in the following areas:
  • Database (RDBMS)
  • Data Integration
  • Reporting
Contact Drivestream today to learn more about how our services can help you address your business application needs.