BI Strategy & Roadmap

Insights Library
- Overcoming the ERP Blues with Actionable IntelligenceWebinar - Can you readily identify your most profitable customers, products and channels? Would you know if you had issues with employee turnover and retention? Are you able to leverage enterprise-wide volume spending with your suppliers for greater discounts? If you've implemented an ERP system without incorporating business intelligence, the answer to these questions may well be "no." We'll show you how you can give executives and line-of-business users ongoing visibility into critical data locked within your ERP system and beat the "ERP blues."
- Targeting High-Value Needs using a BI RoadmapWebinar - Successfully orchestrating an enterprise-wide BI initiative is a significant undertaking, particularly when your effort encompasses multiple departments, locations and possibly even countries. How do you decide where to begin such a massive effort and which projects to tackle first? How can you accurately forecast and budget for what may be a multi-year project? How do you manage it all while running your business? During this Web briefing, we'll explore how building a roadmap that incorporates business-level impact analysis can be a critical step to achieving early strategic wins, avoiding pitfalls and ensuring continued BI success. You'll learn best practices for building a successful plan that mitigates risk, lowers costs and secures buy-in across the enterprise.
- Kick-Starting Your BI Efforts with a Quick WinWebinar - In the midst of this economy, you may wonder how you'll ever have the budget to pursue enterprise-wide BI. Or perhaps you've initiated a BI effort in the past only to have your project stall before completion. Harnessing business intelligence quickly and cost-effectively isn't an impossible dream, but it does require proven tools and sound methodologies. This Web briefing will explore critical success factors and technology approaches you can use to achieve quick, cost-effective wins for the business while laying the foundation for future enterprise-wide efforts.
- Critical Operational Intelligence WILL Improve Production Reliability - A Case Study in SavingsWebinar - This Web briefing will explore a dramatic case study demonstrating how BI was used to improve production reliability and minimize revenue disruption within a process manufacturing environment. Not only has critical operational intelligence saved the manufacturer millions in costs the first year alone, it has also eliminated unplanned shutdowns. We'll discuss the critical data sources that were united to achieve these benefits, best practices for implementation, how the manufacturer is using its BI system in daily practice and how your organization can achieve similar bottom-line results.

Executive View

Top Level Objectives

In today’s economic climate, executives face difficult decisions regarding where to invest their time and money. While it is undisputed that business intelligence (BI) solutions can provide significant benefit, they must be implemented with thoughtful vision to provide meaningful insight, build momentum and ensure both short- and long-term success. Focusing BI spending on high-impact projects that provide rapid ROI is critical, but it’s often difficult for companies to know where to begin.

Rolta’s BI Strategy and Roadmap process reviews current business concerns and technology environments to understand the ingredients missing from current solutions and then identifies and prioritizes potential projects as compared to core business strategies. Rolta consultants help you define a forward-looking vision for converting raw data into actionable intelligence that drives key business decisions. We not only ensure that this vision is proper aligned with today’s business goals, but also that it is flexible and scalable enough to meet tomorrow’s challenges.

Solution - Innovation

Following a review of your business strategy and current technology environment, Rolta's BI Strategy and Roadmap service delivers a comprehensive program for implementing a BI vision to align your business strategy with your technical capabilities. The program details manageable projects and durations in a series of phased deliverables, addressing foundation projects, application projects and quick-win opportunities. This service provides an assurance that future BI projects are properly vetted against corporate business strategies and that budgets and resources are properly allocated to priority projects. Having a well-thought-out roadmap in hand substantially mitigates the risk of program failure and reduces the implementation time and effort for identified future projects.

Our BI Strategy & Roadmap process is a critical step as it drives all future BI foundation projects, BI solution design and development efforts, BI application deployments and other related business Intelligence and data warehouse efforts.

Advantage - Insight

The BI Strategy & Roadmap focuses limited resources on the projects that matter most - the projects that will have the greatest positive impact on improving current operational and competitive inefficiencies while maximizing current advantages.

Benefit - Impact

With a proper BI Roadmap in-hand, executives can rest assured that they are focused on their most pressing needs and that projects will achieve rapid ROI. In addition, because it includes a focus on “quick-win” opportunities, our BI Strategy and Roadmap service helps you build BI momentum and ensure rapid adoption throughout your organization.

Management View

Business Objectives

Without a clear vision of your overall business and technical environments, it is nearly impossible to properly prioritize and focus your efforts on “the right” BI initiatives. In addition, with constant pressure on your technical team to “do more with less,” you likely find it difficult to get your departmental projects completed and ensure you have the proper data and tools in place to drive efficiencies. As a manager, you want to ensure that your highest priority projects receive the right level of support, funding and commitment.

Rolta’s BI Strategy and Roadmap services help focus BI efforts on the most effective initiatives while helping you obtain the sponsorship and resources you need to move forward with key projects.

Solution

Our BI Strategy & Roadmap consists of a strategic review of your corporate goals and your existing IT and process infrastructure that are targeted to support those goals. We deliver a forward-looking vision of your BI environment along with a detailed program for implementing the vision in a series of phased deliverables.

Providing a Roadmap focused on delivering high-impact, quick-win opportunities ensures that project goals will be aligned with business strategies and the highest impact and ROI projects will be addressed first.

We involve key business users and subject matter experts in the up-front Strategy process, ensuring that the vision of all key stakeholders is amalgamated and that the resulting BI Roadmap is aligned with the identified priorities.

Business Value

With a clear understanding of BI goals, costs and resource requirements that are identified in the BI Strategy & Roadmap, you can obtain the sponsorship and resources you need to move forward with your efforts and dramatically reduce the risk of project failure. The ultimate impact of a proper BI Strategy & Roadmap is immeasurable until the resulting BI solutions and/or applications are deployed. But by making better business decisions across key areas of business, it is not uncommon for customers to realize millions of dollars in savings.

Technical View

Technical Issues

Our BI Strategy & Roadmap is designed to document the existing state of your current BI and Data Warehouse (DW) technologies and deliver a succinct, achievable plan to improve them. We conduct a thorough review of current business applications, existing technical infrastructure and proposed changes. We then compare/contrast that vision to current industry trends, ensuring that the resulting technology footprint design is optimized to meet your most pressing business goals.

At Rolta, we understand that organizational issues can be IT’s biggest barrier in moving forward with BI projects. To address this challenge, we involve all key business stakeholders in the roadmap process and objectively align project priorities with business needs. Not only does this allow us to produce a properly vetted BI Roadmap, but all stakeholders throughout the company gain confidence that dollars are being spent on the proper, highest gain, highest priority projects.

Solution Components

The BI Strategy & Roadmap service is not a purely technical solution. However, it reviews existing technology environments and suggests future changes as needed.

Implementation

The BI Strategy & Roadmap is delivered by a dedicated team of BI/DW experts working diligently with your user and technical teams. We strive to understand both your true business needs as well as the current infrastructure and applications that are in place to support them. It is critical to the success of your Strategy and Roadmap that key business stake-holders play a significant role in the effort.

How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?

The BI Strategy & Roadmap prioritizes your BI/DW project workload, aligning it with core business strategies. Armed with this prioritization, you can now properly plan your projects based on their contribution to your goals and those of your company.