BI
Rationalization (Consolidation)
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Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Eighty percent of organizations today have more than three business intelligence (BI) tools deployed within the enterprise. Typically acquired to meet specific departmental or niche needs - or the result of mergers and acquisitions - maintaining multiple, disparate BI tools perpetuates information silos and ultimately hampers company-wide intelligence.
One of the key risks of maintaining multiple BI systems is that inconsistent information can negatively impact business judgments. In addition, your company may have a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO) for BI tools - in license fees, maintenance and resources - than is necessary. Less visible costs include lengthy delays in creating or modifying BI applications, redundant or conflicting efforts, and having information quality compromised by inconsistent implementation of business metrics, rules and transformations.
Rolta TUSC’s BI Rationalization services help companies bring their vast volumes of data under control and into focus by consolidating their BI environments to industry-leading platforms. This service enables companies to increase organization effectiveness, streamline operations and reduce IT spend. By undertaking a BI Rationalization project, companies can expect to realize immediate cost reduction opportunities in software fees and maintenance, infrastructure and resources.
Solution - Innovation
BI software tools are more than just sets of reports. Executives depend on BI applications for insight into daily business operations, guidance on critical decisions and to support key functions including Sarbanes-Oxley reporting. By consolidating BI applications to a single platform, executives have all the intelligence they need in a single source. In addition, companies significantly reduce their BI-related expenses, eliminating license fees, maintenance and development work associated with multiple systems and the back-end servers required to support them.
Rolta’s proven rBix methodology and conversion toolkits accelerate BI consolidation efforts, enabling a 40-60 percent time savings over traditional approaches. Our industry-proven migration plan ensures that no critical business function is negatively impacted during the conversion process. We are currently the only provider of both a methodology and toolkits for accelerating and programmatically migrating BI content.
Advantage - Insight
Rolta’s rBix solution is all about capitalizing on an organization’s information assets. By reducing the need for multiple BI platforms and tools, the organization becomes more streamlined and agile from a Business Intelligence perspective. To obtain meaningful data, business users only need to access one tool and they receive one correct answer to critical questions.
Benefit - Impact
According to recent surveys, the number one business priority is to reduce IT-related expenses. Ironically, the number one IT spend for seven years in a row has been business intelligence. Rolta TUSC BI rationalization solutions enable companies to immediately eliminate BI-related expenses, including software licensing fees and maintenance, infrastructure and resources - while meeting enterprise intelligence needs.
Management View
Business Objectives
The multiple BI tools prevalent in organizations today are creating excessive and unnecessary support costs and indirectly promoting information hoarding - whether system or politically-based. Lack of comprehensive insight is constraining organizational growth and decision-making.
By simplifying the BI landscape with business intelligence rationalization, companies increase transparency and organizational effectiveness - all while reducing BI Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
BI is a business imperative and there is no room for misstep in a BI consolidation effort. Rolta’s proven rBix methodology and toolkits account for all BI consolidation hurdles and barriers. We plan, justify and negate concerns in migration costs, change management and training, system audits, upstream and downstream data dependencies, political data fiefdoms and tool preferences that can derail BI consolidation projects.
Solution
Rolta TUSC helps clients use data to make better business decisions. We have experience in bringing vast and still-growing volumes of data back into focus leveraging your existing BI technologies. Our approach to rationalizing your BI environment is founded on key stages including:
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Discover - Rolta TUSC will assess your current technology, data, and resources involved within your organization’s Information Management systems.
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Develop the Plan - Every step taken in a BI Migration or Consolidation needs to be part of your organization’s strategic information goals.
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Cleanse the environment - The accumulation of Data Warehouse and BI tools reduces your effectiveness, increases your risks and saddles you with needless costs.
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Migrate to target platforms - Using proprietary technology, we systematically convert data and reports from redundant BI platforms to a single enterprise standard. Our rBix conversion utility reduces the time and expense of this effort by up to 60%.
We have the only known toolkits to programmatically convert BI content from source to a consolidation target.
Approach
The rBix toolkit has BI system audit capabilities that set the baseline and help remove BI content that is redundant, no longer used or disseminating information that no longer drives proper business decisions and processes. All activities are aimed at increasing effectiveness of the information assets by creating a streamlined BI infrastructure and enabling the agile enterprise.
Business Value
Rolta TUSC BI consolidation efforts dramatically reduce BI-related expenses, including infrastructure, software, development and support staff. By providing one reporting tool to end users, BI consolidation reduces confusion and enables better enterprise-wide decision making. In addition, BI rationalization removes unnecessary and unmanageable access points in your source data, improving integrity and audit readiness.
Gartner states that more than 20% of resources time is spent in search for information across an organization. BI Consolidation activities reduce that time spent. Business is too fast paced to have to retool and reinvent at every change in the market. Information that drives innovation and critical business decisions needs to move faster than the market. BI Consolidation reduces that information cycle.
Technical View
Technical Issues
With eighty percent of all organizations employing more than three BI tools within the enterprise, management is challenging. With disparate tools, companies are unable to create economies of scale through establishment of a Center of Excellence (COE), volume software license and maintenance agreements, common infrastructure, transfer/reuse of business rules and/or resource functional redundancies.
By reducing the number of BI tools, companies can free technology funds and resources, shifting them out of support mode to drive strategic business opportunities.
Solution Components
Based on a strong methodology for BI Tool migration and consolidation we have a unique set of proprietary tools that help with each step of the process. Our tool kits begin by reading through all source BI system to collect information that helps with BI cleansing, metadata creation, pre-migration report consolidation, report templates, architecture planning and security consolidation concerns. Our tool kits greatly reduce time and effort with our systematic approach to rationalization efforts.
Implementation
The rBix methodology is an all encompassing plan for BI Tool migration and consolidation. There are many details that cannot be overlooked during any BI implementation. Overlooked details will jeopardize a migration and consolidation efforts.
Our implementation follows the summary of our methodology noted below. The exhaustive list of tasks we cover ensures there is no misstep. Just a few of the major items that are planned for in the following methodology include: BI Tool selection, Information Delivery and Report clean-up, enterprise architecture and sizing plan, data management activities, report migration and a detailed resource training plan and gap analysis to guarantee that when Rolta TUSC has done its job, you will be able to do yours.
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Discover -Rolta TUSC will assess your current technology, data and resources involved within your organization’s Information Management systems.
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Develop the Plan -Every step taken in a BI Migration or Consolidation needs to be part of your organization’s strategic information goals.
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Cleanse the environment -The accumulation of data and BI tools over time reduces their effectiveness, increases risk and saddles you with needless costs.
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Migrate to target platforms - Using proprietary technology, we systematically convert data and reports from redundant BI platforms to a single enterprise standard. Our rBix conversion utility reduces the time and expense of this effort by up to 60%.
How Does it fit and why is it different?
We not only ensure your consolidated BI solution supports your business analysis requirements, but with cross-functional expertise, our consultants can assess and fine-tune your underlying architecture to ensure 24/7 continuous operation of your BI environment.