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From business solutions to technical architecture on a local or global scale, MiPro Consulting professionals can help lead you from a strategy and planning project state to successful implementation. Whether you are implementing OBIEE, BI Applications, Predictive Analytics or Hyperion Essbase, we have the knowledge and experience to make your investment a success.
Our consultants are experienced with all phases of a new product implementation or existing product upgrades. We have experience in navigating and leading the complete project life cycle, not just participating in a limited piece of the project. This cradle-to-grave experience provides our staff an edge during the project as they help to identify and avoid potential pitfalls in your tailored approach.
- Project preview
- Project management
- Change management
- Fit/Gap analysis
- Business process analysis
- Configuration and prototype
- Infrastructure development
- Application development
- Customization
- Data validation
- Testing and validation
- Production
- Post-production support
Your Business Intelligence solution is only as good as the underlying data and data structure that supports it. Our consultants understand data and the positive and negative impact that data can have on your solution. Your data should be designed in a manner that supports performance and answers key business questions. We can help you with:
- Data warehouse design and implementation
- Data integration and ETL
- Data Mart solutions
- Data Quality
It is extremely important that a Business Intelligence implementation methodology is repeatable, scalable and adaptable. In order to achieve success in Business Intelligence you must ensure that that your solution is not merely viewed and executed as a reporting solution but is designed to answer key business questions and empower your organization to make sound business decisions based upon trusted data. Our four-step Business Intelligence implementation/upgrade methodology, SD3, is an agile, scalable, focused, efficient and cost-effective implementation approach that guarantees an open and candid dialogue during all phases. The methodology is designed to encourage strong client involvement every step of the way. SD3 will establish a strong project management foundation to help deliver your project on time, in scope and within budget.
Our methodology includes audits on an interim basis within and at the end of each phase. These allow for optimal resource planning, review of deliverables, risk management and approval of plans to proceed.
Phase I - Strategy and Planning
- Refine the scope of the project - ensure project goals map to corporate goals
- Project management principals implemented
- Key strategies developed
- Establish project management team
- Develop project plan and project charter
- Identify assigned resources, deliverables and timing of the key deliverables
Phase II - Definition and Design
- Create blueprint of future business processes and technical infrastructure
- Analyze current legacy system and associated business processes against new features and functions
- Finalize project plan
- Complete a gap analysis/fit assessment
- Compare delivered Oracle BI functionality to organization's business requirements
- Analyze requirements against a reporting solution vs. a business intelligence solution
- Complete a preliminary base configuration
- Analyze interfaces (data sources)
- Develop design documents for business processes, training material, test scripts and implementation script
Phase III - Develop
- Configuration and unit testing
- Confirm functionality
- Develop and customize training mechanisms
- Develop and implement ongoing system operations procedures
- Execute disposition of all customizations
- Ensure data integrity
- Training development for end users
Phase IV - Deploy
- Testing to validate new system
- Perform functional, integration, user acceptance, volume/performance and parallel testing
- Log, review and resolve testing failures
- Develop detailed "cutover" plan
- Move to production "rollout"
- Exit interview & "lessons learned" meeting
- Summary documents
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