Maturity Assessment & Roadmap

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) programs like Data Governance or Master Data Management are long term efforts that require climbing the maturity levels step by step. In order to succeed you will have to first assess your level of maturity and adopt an approach in which you gradually move to the target vision without forgetting to bring short-term added value. The EIM roadmap service is there to help you asking yourself the right questions, determine your target vision, evaluate your level of maturity and build your roadmap for success.

Data Quality Audit

Poor data quality can have dramatic impact on the business. When being in front of a data quality problem, business people first want to stop the haemorrhage. And they are right! But the answer can not be only data cleansing or it will be a never ending story. The Business & Decision Data Quality Audit helps you evaluate and improve the situation at short term but not only. Once the situation under control, it gives you the keys in order to stabilize the situation at long term by defining a data quality management process, establishing a root cause philosophy, determine the right technological answer, etc. In other words lay the foundations of information as a corporate asset.

BI Readiness Assessment

Studies clearly demonstrated the evolution of BI usage in the enterprises. BI becomes an integral part of the attempt to build more agile enterprises. Your company is aware of it and wants to start a BI program. Sounds good! But where are you now? Are you sure of the business needs? To what extend will it influence the current organisation & methodology? The Business & Decision BI readiness assessment will help you elaborating the program that is right for you.

Data Governance Boot Camp

This two parts workshop has been created to assist our customers in successfully starting a data governance program. Along the way, you'll learn how to avoid the "we already do it" or "so what?" syndromes that can plague organizations, as well as why you should reject naïve approaches. At the end of these workshops you'll be able to start your data governance program with a roadmap for success.

BICC Executive Summary

For BI to really deliver the promised value mangers need to adopt a solid BI vision and strategy reconnecting BI with the business realities. The BICC (Business Intelligence Competency Centre) executive workshop aims at helping managers both from business & IT how a BICC can increase the ROI of BI by promoting and driving a comprehensive information delivery strategy, bringing BI closer to the business and combining business, analytic and IT skills.

Data Quality Management Process

Even if departments or projects are often well aware of the importance of data quality in the success of their initiative they frequently overrun their budgets, get delayed or even sometimes, get cancelled. The main reason for this is that people don't really know the techniques, processes and tools associated to Data Quality and envisage Data Quality management in a very "naive" way. At the opposite, DQ has to be managed as a specific work stream and with the needed techniques, tools and experts. With its data quality wheel, Business & Decision can help you structuring your approach.

Tool Selection and Implementation

With a method ensuring the correct budget for your real needs and a smooth integration with your existing architecture Business & Decision can help selecting the correct vendors for your EIM initiatives -MDM, Data Quality, BI, etc.- as well as the redaction of the related RFP/RFI and implementation of the selected solution.

Architecture/ Conceptual & Logical Model

You model data for the same reasons you model a car, house or bridge. The materials needed for any of these is expensive and just cobbling it together is a bad use of time and effort. Data is a valuable asset for any corporation, so just throwing the data in some file is not a good use of resources

When building a data warehouse one of the main difficulties is to build as from the beginning a model being flexible enough avoiding heavy changes each time your scope evolves. That's why you need to build first a conceptual model. A conceptual data model describes the semantics of an organisation and represents a series of assertions about its nature. It's crucial to any EIM initiative as it will facilitate the common language about all the important business objects of your company. With its data modelling experts Business & Decision can help you understanding how to conceptualise your business objects and build a model being comprehensive, efficient and stable in time.

ETL Design

Data Governance Program

If you want to structurally avoid poor data quality, you will need to a wider scope than data quality on a selected department or project. Data governance is the orchestration of a company's staff, technologies and processes to manage data as an enterprise asset that yields business value for the organisation. Business & Decision can lead you to this ambitious objective with a detailed framework and a modular set-up process.

BICC Implementation

Respecting your specificities but applying best practices, Business & Decision can help you designing, assembling and launching your BI Competency Centre. The BICC mandate is the following:  "Keep control over BI activities enterprise-wide! Align it with corporate goals and link it to business processes".

BICC Outsourcing

Business & Decision's outsourcing business intelligence (BI) solutions enable its clients to concentrate more on their strategic initiatives with the added benefit of saving money in the process. We bring actionable intelligence to our clients' business strategies and operations through outsourcing best practice data warehouse integration, analytics, and performance management services. Our outsourcing solutions offer the following benefits to our clients: Quality, Time & Cost.

BICC Interim Operations/ Management

By applying our Best Practices in your context, we will rapidly setup your BICC, creating immediate benefit while managing carefully the costs and gradually transferring our knowledge to internal resources.

Departemental SAS usage Optimization

Business users have been developing BI solutions using SAS for years, creating silos, redundancy, etc. In the current context, Business & Decision proposes to help you optimize your usage of SAS with usage diagnostic, recommendations for cost reduction and productivity increase, roadmap.

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