BI strategy and architecture are critical to ensuring organizations achieve actionable insight that allows them to make better business decisions. A proper strategy and architecture will guide all BI initiatives and ensure they work in conjunction to satisfy the overall enterprise objectives for improved business performance and decision making. This is accomplished by providing a thorough understanding of the organization's high-level business requirements, defining the high-level architecture that satisfies those business requirements, and presenting an approach for implementing the architecture in a series of manageable increments that maximize business value while minimizing project risk.
Many organizations underestimate the importance of establishing a sound BI strategy and architecture. They design and develop a series of business intelligence solutions, treating each as an unrelated stand-alone project. Over time, this approach results in the proliferation of uncoordinated data warehouses, operational data stores (ODSs), and data marts with duplicative functionality and conflicting answers to the same questions. Worse yet, despite the numerous solutions available, many business requirements critical to achieving the organization's enterprise objectives mysteriously go unmet. As a result, this approach frequently leads to higher development and maintenance costs, data quality concerns among users, and no clear way to link various efforts back to the common enterprise objectives that must be supported.
Claraview offers its clients a streamlined approach that enables them to quickly create a roadmap for their BI program that will provide tangible benefits to stakeholders. The end result is an Enterprise Information Strategy and Roadmap that enables the client organization to implement scalable, flexible, BI / DW environments that align to organizational objectives and have the ability to expand over time to accommodate additional requirements. Specific outcomes include: