BI & DW Consulting Services

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Cyber Korp’s Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse (DW) consulting practice takes a holistic approach to meeting the complete information management needs of enterprises, with a focus on getting business results.

Overview

Get stakeholders to identify and agree on key business outcomes. So, your organization can develop and implement solutions that align with your goals and meet your objectives.

Many companies struggle to capture the best ROI from their expensive data warehousing investments. They focused too much on data and technical execution, with too little emphasis on BI strategy and roadmap. This neglects the needed changes to get the best ROI from their data warehousing investment.

This leaves companies confused. They say, “We have a data warehouse. But, we want better business intelligence.”

Our unique and proven BI & DW development methodology gets you the best business intelligence and ROI from your data warehousing investments. Cyber Korp helps you through strategy and planning, through architecture and design, to implementation and support.

Cyber Korp’s methodology focuses on key business issues, and reaches fast resolutions well within your budget. Based on decades of experience, we understand how to develop a data infrastructure that meets an enterprise’s immediate needs and long-term goals. Build business intelligence and analytic capabilities that deliver maximum value, over time.

Our data warehousing consulting professionals combine BI expertise with data warehousing experience to act as your trusted advisors, and help you harness the power of your data warehouse and BI assets.

professionals can help you harness the power of your data warehouse and BI implementations.

Services offering

BI/DW Program Assessment

Assess the state of your current BI and DW assets. Then identify opportunities to apply best practices and fill gaps. Plan the future of your BI and DW assets, and plan further assessments to reduce risks.

Typical Engagement:

2 to 4 week project staffed by up to four consultants, depending on scope, depth, and timeline requirements. Primary deliverable is a customized report with company-specific recommendations based on best practices.

BI/DW Requirement Analysis & Program Planning

Identify business opportunities based on your organization’s information and analytical requirements. Then, establish KPIs, metrics, and data definitions for prioritizing projects and measuring BI and DW program alignment and support of your business goals.

Typical Engagement:

4 to 12 week project staffed by up to four consultants, depending on scope, depth, and timeline requirements.

Deliverables:

Information Requirements Matrix
Information Needs Glossary
Fact/Qualifier Matrix and Data Definitions
Customized description of projects, and a BI Opportunity Map that shows prioritized projects

BI/DW Information Architecture

Develop an architectural blueprint for building a BI and DW program that ensures usability and superb information quality. Your blueprint will help you ensure ETL and query performance, improve data flows, and achieve flexibility and scalability, all while reducing costs.

Typical Engagement:

6 to 12 week engagement staffed by one or two consultants, depending on scope, requirements, number of source systems, and depth of modeling. Deliverables are a logical data model and an information architecture document.

BI/DW Technology Selection

Assess your business needs and select technology that delivers optimal price-performance trade-offs, ensures technological fit, and promotes platform growth with minimal product selection risks.

Typical Engagement:

2 to 8 week project staffed by one or two consultants, depending on how many products are being selected, how complex the proof of concept needs to be, the IT organizational structure, company procurement policies, IT policies and standards, and degree of assistance needed for preparing and conducting the Proof of Concept.

Deliverables:

Technical Requirements Specification
Technology Selection Plan
Proof of Concept Plan (if desired)
Selection Report

BI/DW Development / Program Execution

Develop a BI and DW program, then see it through to completion.

Design your BI and DW applications, ETL, and data integration programs. Then, populate your data stores, and configure your analytic applications, and migrate everything to production. Lastly, perform end-to-end testing and deploy your BI applications to users using phased or Big-Bang deployment.

Typical Engagement:

12 to 24+ week project staffed by 4+ consultants depending on scope, schedule requirements, IT technical/policy environment, and other situational variables. The deliverable is an optimized and tested BI application and enabled data stores.

Technology Competencies

Microsoft Business Intelligence Expertise

SQL Server 2008 has new and improved Business Intelligence (BI) features which enable businesses to leverage their current Microsoft investment and build a world-class Business Intelligence solution that’s robust and affordable.

But, Microsoft Business Intelligence is not only for pure Microsoft shops. Microsoft BI tools integrate with nearly all major relational database management systems and can be used to present and explore data on heterogeneous systems. This makes Microsoft BI an affordable option for companies that thought they were stuck with expensive BI solutions.

Cyber Korp certified consultants have years of expertise in dashboards, Microsoft Scorecards, and ad hoc analysis. They help you get the most from your Microsoft Business Intelligence investment.

Our certified consultants analyze your requirements, and help you architect a solution for your data mart and data warehouse. Develop and deploy reporting services, and integrate solutions with your data servers.

The Cyber Korp business intelligence expertise covers all versions of Microsoft PerformancePoint, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office SharePoint.

BI & DW Tools Expertise

Cyber Korp consultants are highly skilled in industry standard technologies catering to BI & DW solutions like: Informatica®, Business Objects™, Cognos™, Microsoft SSIS™, and Oracle Warehouse Builder™, among others.

Gain better insight into your business, make better decisions, and optimize your organization’s performance. Cyber Korp offers a unique mixture of technology and business expertise, leveraging proven and repeatable methodologies to deliver pervasive reporting and analytics solutions, built on industry leading technologies.

Solve your data fragmentation problems, even across disparate source systems, and get better returns on your data integration investments. Cyber Korp opens new doors for leveraging enterprise information, and takes an end-to-end approach that caters to all aspects of enterprise-scale data integration.

We use Informatica to help you analyze and profile source and target data, and get all your data into your data warehouse.

Cyber Korp helps you improve your data warehousing, get better business intelligence, and experience better business results with even the most sophisticated BI and DW systems.