Our Experience

Sky Solution has the requisite technical and architectural expertise, business/domain expertise, disciplined program management experience and a track record of performing strategic and tactical assessments for existing solutions. In particular Sky Solutions has a proven track record of conducting successful assessments in the following areas:

• Readiness Assessment
• Current BI / DW Implementation
• Data Governance / Audit
• BI / DW Migration

Current BI / DW Implementation Assessment

Sky Solutions has the expertise to perform a comprehensive assessment of an existing BI / DW implementation triggered by one or more reasons like the followings

• Existing issues or complains o Functionality of performance issues
• Data accuracy issues
• Maintenance issues
• Requirements change / Enhancements
• o Significant change of business requirements
• o Enhancements of reporting and analysis capabilities
• o Future requirements
• Infrastructure / Technical changes
• o Upgrades or migration of source / target databases
• o Software upgrades or migration
• o Infrastructure upgrades or restructuring

 

Our approach for evaluating existing implementations is to conduct a two phase assessment process:

1. Initial DW Assessment
2. Detail DW Assessment / Solution Design

Phase 2. Detail DW Assessment / DW Solution Design Objectives

• Detail Design Solutions
• Detail Recommendations
• Detail Implementation Roadmap
• Prototype (optional)

Our Approach Highlights

• Phased approach based on a long-term roadmap and architectural foundation
• Business Requirements & Business Value driven assessment
• Incremental deliverables
• Risk Management
• Education and knowledge transfer

Areas that will be reviewed during DW/BI assessment

1. Business Objectives Review
2. Requirements Review
3. Current Usability and ROI
4. Current DW / BI Implementation Overview
5. Current DW / BI Architecture, Data and Metadata Models
6. Current DW / BI ETL processes
7. Current Data Quality / Data Governance
8. Current DW / BI Infrastructure & Technology
9. Current DW / BI Automation & Processes
10. Current DW / BI Knowledge base and documentation
11. Current Development Practices
12. Current Admin Processes