This affordable, fixed-price offering gives clients a proven, integrated approach and process for providing and managing information quality. This includes an assessment of information quality and existing capabilities, and a process for providing an effective information quality management environment and capabilities.

Description

Our Information Quality Management Rapid Review Assessment provides a fast and efficient assessment and analysis of the current BI environment which covers the following:

• An assessment and evaluation of the current information quality and management capabilities, from both business and IT perspectives
• A gap analysis comparing the current IQM capabilities to best practices
• An overview of an effective data and data-warehouse architecture that is fully aligned with your enterprise architecture
  • A criteria template for DW/BI tool selection (optional)

Our Experts have extensive experience in implementing business intelligence, data warehousing, and master data management solutions. Our team also has experience in performing IT assessments, designing enterprise architectures, developing master data management programs, and developing actionable migration plans and roadmaps.

We partner with our clients to define the improved information quality management environment based on their goals and business requirements, and to educate their team in the process. We feel that this is important so our clients can take ownership for the recommendations, and are capable of making continual adjustments to their IQM capabilities as changing business needs demand.

Deliverables

Standard

Our offering delivers the following results:

• An assessment and evaluation of the current information quality and management capabilities, from both business and IT perspectives
• A gap analysis comparing the current IQM capabilities to best practices
• An overview of an effective data/DW architecture that is fully aligned with your enterprise architecture
  • A criteria template for DW/BI tool selection (optional)
• An overview of an effective data/DW architecture strategy, standards, tools and design

Work effort may be conducted on-site or off-site as follows:

• TAC will work with client’s IT staff to gather the information for review.
• Work effort is limited to two days for data gathering, one day for analysis, and one day for an interactive presentation of findings and recommendations
• TAC assumes client has readily available inventory of all BI related products, processes, and services, and will send to TAC within two business days upon request.
• TAC also assumes that selected IT and user staff will be available for completing our assessment and for interviews.
• TAC will present findings and recommendations within seven business days after receipt of all information/data from the client, and present to the client’s senior management team.

Optional

In addition to the deliverables listed above, we can assist clients in a more detailed full IQM assessment, data/DW architecture development, a process for master data management with data governance, and an investment roadmap. Our Experts will deliver detailed report that includes the above deliverables and present the findings to our client’s management committee.

Target Audience

CIO, CEO, COO, CFO

IT executives and senior management who are responsible for ensuring enterprise information quality

About The Advisory Council

Founded in 2002, The Advisory Council provides IT organizations with enterprise-wide access to objective, actionable advice for resolving IT challenges and issues. Through its suite of services, products and workshops, TAC helps IT organizations make decisions more quickly and cost effectively. TAC’s Expert Decision Support Network consists of more than 200 Experts, covering 97% of all IT practice areas. Clients include Fortune 1000 and midsize companies, government, and educational institutions.