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Business Intelligence Readiness Review
Our Business Intelligence (BI) Readiness Review is a flat fee engagement where we review your needs and environment for determining what you need to do to be prepared for BI. The review includes several hours of review with you and your team and provides a consultant's report that includes findings and recommendations.

You can't manage what you can't measure. Do you have all the information you need when you need it to manage your business? Business Intelligence is the process of taking the data that already exists in your organization and turning it into knowledge. BI applications include the activities of decision support, ad hoc query and reporting, statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining. Would having the right information at the right time be a competitive advantage for you and your organization? If so, then Result Data can help you determine your organization's readiness for BI and create a roadmap for making better decisions by having the right information at the right time.

We can help. Our senior consulting team has developed a five step plan for helping you understand your organization's readiness for BI. Our plan is based on years of experience designing and implementing BI solutions for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 500. Our process begins with determining where your organization is currently on the Information Intelligence Lifecycle and ends with a report that outlines the appropriate steps you need to take to make BI work for you.
Review of the Information Intelligence Lifecycle
  • Gain a better understanding of your organization's level of information maturity
  • Discover how more advanced analysis tools fit into your current organization
  • See how the Information Intelligence Lifecycle drives improvements in your operational systems

User Community Analysis

We help you define and understand how different types of users in your organization can leverage different types of information distribution methods such as reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, and dashboards

  • Identify data use case scenarios
  • Quantification of content consumption types

System of Record Analysis

We explore your existing operational systems and identify issues, problems and opportunities for collecting the appropriate data to drive better decisions

  • Review of the system of record concept
  • General review of your operational systems environment
  • Subject area integration analysis

Definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Review of KPIs and their purpose
  • Identify your top 5 KPIs

Recommendations for making BI work for you

  • Eight page consultant's report that summarizes where you're at today, where you could be, and how to get there
  • Improvements in operational systems
  • Analysis of appropriate next steps to move your organization toward better use of your information
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