What do you need? - Business Goals Results are never an accident. If you don't clearly define your objectives and then determine the related measures, dimensions, data lists, metrics and other supporting definitions you won't realize results. Our facilitated sessions walk your management team through this process and include a standardized business process analysis and activity flow. It also provides a Business Encyclopedia that documents your most important business metrics and operational definitions. Where is your data? - Conceptual Data Model & System of Record Once you know the audience, objectives and supporting metrics that will have the greatest impact on success, you must define how data will be derived and organized. We will help you create a standards-based conceptual data model to represent how your business measurements, dimensions and other information will be organized at a high level. Next we explore your operational systems and help you define the systems of record for your most critical information. Finally, we work with your vendors and IT team to determine how disparate operational systems will be related to each other. How will you make it work? - Implementation With objectives and data defined it is still possible to have a failure with the implementation of your business intelligence system. A variety of concerns must be carefully reviewed and considered. Our consultants will help you understand the best information delivery method for the primary groups within your user community. This will be combined with a review of your IT infrastructure at a high level to assure such issues as bandwidth consumption, BI licensing optimization and fault tolerance are addressed. Finally, a high level implementation plan with an estimate of the needed time and skills for successful implementation is created and added to the consultant's report.