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STRATEGY, ROADMAPS AND ASSESSMENTS

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Sound business intelligence and data warehouse strategies are key components for organizations looking to gain a competitive advantage and enhanced profitability. While a weak strategic plan can result in wasting millions of dollars, the right strategy empowers your organization’s ability to make correct business decisions. By properly managing the complete life cycle of data, a sound strategy also enables you to convert data into information and to transform that information into actionable knowledge.

Additionally, many firms have already invested in a data warehouse and/or reporting solution to sustain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The pressure for effective data warehouse and business intelligence solutions continues to grow and many organizations have yet to realize the full potential of their implementation. Your data warehouse must produce accurate, timely, and usable information in order to effectively improve your business.

HighPoint Solutions offers two service offerings to address your needs:

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Strategy service offering from HighPoint Solutions enables organizations to accurately assess the effectiveness of current technology in aligning core business strategies with business intelligence and data warehouse initiatives. The business intelligence and data warehouse strategy engagement provides your organization with a detailed analysis of strategic and tactical business objectives that:

• Provide the tools and processes required for your organization to effectively manage the complexities of its information
• Gain maximum advantage from ERP and legacy system investments through data integration
• Evaluate the effectiveness of current technologies
• Create business intelligence/data warehouse roadmap to meet your organization’s goals

The benefits of implementing such a strategy include the ability to:

• Set the foundation for sharing information across the enterprise in a controlled and managed environment
• Understand and increase visibility into strategic business initiatives with a high return on investment (ROI)
• Evaluate existing business intelligence initiatives and realign projects with strategic business objectives
• Determine if the existing technology infrastructure can support strategic business intelligence initiatives
• Capitalize on a strategy roadmap that covers business and technology implementation considerations

The objective of the HighPoint Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse (BI/DW) Assessment is to refine the architectural process, revitalize the BI/DW initiative, and restructure the BI/DW implementation into a high (ROI) initiative.

This assessment will:

1. Evaluate your current BI/DW capabilities and implementation
2. Determine if your current technology supports the business requirements and strategic goals of the organization
3. Identify high leverage areas for improvement
4. Provide the opportunity to realize your business intelligence/data warehouse strategy, leverage current strengths, and mitigate risk as the environment continues to evolve

The assessment engagement will provide your organization with detailed results and findings, an assessment scorecard, and recommendations that will enable your organization to:

• Identify appropriate business best practices
• Deliver a single version of the truth to the enterprise
• Ensure scalability and growth of the data warehouse infrastructure
• Provide a framework for prioritizing future business requirements
• Recommend process improvements to maximize current investments
• Improve the performance of the existing implementation
• Recommend new technologies or utilities that will reduce the overall cost of ownership
• Increase data quality, consistency, reliability, and accuracy