Business Intelligence
Assessment

If you are launching a BI initiative or would like to measure the effectiveness of your current BI solution consider Xtivia’s Data Warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) assessment solution. With this solution you will be able to realize the following benefits

• Assess key strengths and weaknesses within your organization as it relates to the BI program
• Get best-practices guidance from industry leading experts
• Focus your constrained resources to maximize realized value
• Curb wasteful expenditures

The Assessment focuses on the following areas:

• Strategic Alignment: Are you capturing BI in and around areas that directly influence the way you do business? If not, the lack of alignment may result in unnecessary waste of resources and will result in degradation of the success you may have.
• Information Use and Analysis: How ready is your organization to use analytical frameworks and quantitative analysis as a means to improve business performance?
• BI Portfolio Management: Do you have or effectively use BI Portfolio Management to manage ROI on BI initiatives?
• Technical Readiness: How ready is your organization from a technical perspective?
• Continuous Process Improvement: How well has your organization adopted continuous process improvement practices—with or without BI?

For a modest investment, our BI assessment provides a complete and accurate picture of your current BI solution and establishes a solid foundation for future initiatives. Our customers have used assessment results to focus their efforts and revitalize BI programs thereby cutting down on waste and maximizing usage and value.

Elements of the Assessment

Assessment and roadmap development projects typically require one to four senior level resources for two to eight weeks depending on the size, scope, and complexity of the client situation. Using a small team of BI experts, Xtivia will:

• Review existing documentation (How is information used currently?)
• Interview key stakeholders (How should the program align with strategic initiatives within the organization?)
• Assess existing systems and processes to determine the cause of the issue(s) (Technical readiness within your organization)
• Review of business and technical requirements (Facilitates alignment, efficient portfolio management)
• Assess business, IT and project team resources and skills
• Review proposed architecture
  • Data
  • Information
  • Technology
  • Product
• Review project plan 

We can use this information in conjunction with the following TDWI BI Maturity Model from The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) to help determine where you are relative to other organizations. From this, we are then able to recommend steps you can take to improve your environment.

TDWI defines the organizations as follows: