BI Consulting

Instasap BI Assessment & BI Implementation Services

Our Client Readiness Assessment employs a survey and analysis process to evaluate quickly and objectively your organization’s readiness to embark on a particular BI initiative. Our experience and expertise in building world-class BI solutions helps us help you identify the potential risks and issues before you commit valuable time and resources to your initiative. Understanding these risks early in the BI lifecycle can greatly enhance your likelihood of success. This short-term, fixed-price offering allows you to realize important benefits quickly, for relatively little risk or expense.

Our Implementation Assessment provides you with an evaluation of a given BI project segment with regard to its initial objectives. We evaluate the segment’s success in achieving the original project objectives by measuring the level of accomplishment of the defined deliverables. The identification of variances may reveal deficiencies in a business process, technical architecture or overall project management methodology.


The Implementation Assessment looks at three areas: business functionality, technical performance, and project management methodology. Each of these areas may be assessed on their own or in combination with another area to provide feedback to project team members, user communities, and management sponsors.


The Implementation Assessment serves to document project experience that can be used as an example to improve subsequent initiatives or additional releases. An Implementation Assessment may be conducted immediately upon the completion of a given release or for a mature system which involves following stages:

Discovery:

Our BI Discovery service helps define the goals, objectives, and scope of your BI initiative. This enables you to decide on the technical approach to adopt as well as define and prioritize each BI application release. We work with your business users, technical staff, data owners and project sponsors to define high-level initiative requirements and an overall project plan based on your organization’s specific needs and objectives.

Technology Evaluation:

Our Technology Evaluation service is designed to help you select the right tools or technology for your solution architecture. We are a vendor-neutral solution provider with proven experience and expertise in technology evaluation for BI solutions.

Data Migration:

BI initiatives require you to identify all of your source systems, their owners, and the platforms on which they reside. You need to know how your organization’s specific business rules impact your plans for data movement, transformation, storage, and access. Our Data Migration service helps successfully migrate the data for your project. We use best-in-class processes and tools, centered on a comprehensive metadata model for your data migration. The metadata model is begun during the Discovery and Planning phase of the data migration and built on throughout the data migration lifecycle.


BI Organizer:

In order to be successful, the development, implementation, and ongoing life of a Data Warehouse requires many adjustments to classic existing roles and creation of new specific Roles on both the user and IT sides. Metadata management (new) and user support (adjusted) are two examples of that. BI Organizer is intended to support clients in defining, customizing, and implementing the most appropriate organizational structure in order to handle every role and responsibility that needs to be taken care of to maximize the value of your investment in BI. Best practices templates are used to identify every role and responsibility that have to be assumed and are mapped with the existing organizational structure. A gap analysis is then prepared and an adjusted structure is proposed taking into consideration the specifics and constraints of your organization.


BI Sustainment:

Application Sustainment services allow you to proactively manage the changing BI business requirements. Your data warehouse solution will be under constant and increasing pressure to change from many different sources, including: demands from your business users, external influences, source system changes and infrastructure hanges. BI Sustainment delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end application outsourcing solution to protect and evolve your BI investment, and to continue empowering your knowledge workers to deliver the required business results by integrating our Managed Services best practices and experience with our BI expertise. Our management processes ensure that the critical and complex elements of your BI solution are effectively maintained to protect the security, quality and integrity of the data warehouse. Our application management processes address the unique aspects of BI sustainment such as: metadata management, data quality, privacy requirements, and software tools utilization and maintenance.


Benefits Monitoring:

The benefits that are promised early on often fail to materialize partially or completely. By applying our unique Benefits Realization approach and Enterprise Value Management experience to data warehousing, continuous ROI will be generated from your Business Intelligence solution. This will guide the ongoing sustainment and enhancement to ensure your solution stays fresh and relevant to your changing business environment.