Friday, November 28, 2008

Our sympathies with Mumbai

Our sympathies go to all in Mumbai including Indians and every tourist there. We are plugged to the radio and television as we all watch in horror the events taking place in India. Hotels, Internaltional homes, Resturants - nothing seems to have been spared in this meaningless carnage. It seems that the Mumbai nightmare is slowly coming to an end as the anti-terrorist resources take control of the situation. It seems the militants targeted the whole planet i.e. American, European, Japanese and Australian.

Our heartfelt condolences to all in Mumbai, and may the terrorists get caught fast and at least some of them alive..

Long live the solidarity of India

BI Value Architect deliverables

BI Value Architect:

In short assist build processes & methodologies where ‘failure can no longer be possible’
Tactical & Strategic Alignment: Provides ‘BI Value Architect Services’ to assure strategic guidelines, with tactical controls and compliance
Strategic Value Alignment: Assures BI strategy alignment to strategic business needs
BI Value Practices: Deploys & communicate proven ‘Best Practice’ standards, structures, processes and organization structures
BI Value Architecture: Merges Information, Data Quality, DW, Information Delivery, Business and Technology Architectures for a well rounded
BI Value training: Convert business owners and core team members into strategic BI participants with critical executive level training
BI Business Value: Assure ‘Business Value Attainment’, even turn around projects for success
BI Value Handbook: Build global ‘BI Handbook’ so global BW developments follow common global processes and standards
• BI Value PLS: Provide ‘Client BI Project Lifecycle Strategy’ templates for BI Value Assurance

The 4 Paths of a BI Project


SAP BI Value Architect Checklist

BI Value Drivers

Don’t simply run BW projects, make BW projects run better
Don’t drive business with technology, let technology becomes a catalyst to business
Don’t simply ‘capacity plan’ resources, build resource 'Skill Maps'
Don’t just build BI warehouses, ensure they are built better
Don’t simply undertake Technical BI deployments, make them more business centirc
Don’t perform legacy data modeling , evolve to modern 'Information Modeling'
Don't try to manually figure one in billion InfoCube model, automate InfoCube modelin

Don’t simply install BI Accelerator, make it cost less and perform better
Don’t simply implement BW projects, assure ‘BI Value Enablement’ for Business Success


'Do I need a BI Value Architect' checklist

For N e w BI Implementation Customers
1. We have a documented ‘Project Lifecycle Strategy’ detailing BW project stages

2. Our BW strategy is aligned to meet business compliance, corporate and operational reporting needs
3. We utilize new ‘Information Modeling’ techniques and do not depend on legacy ‘Data Modeling’ alone
4. We follow BI best-practices on ‘BI Architecture’ that alignsTechnical, Data Quality and Information Delivery Architecture
5. Our BW installation methodology is assured to meet business expectations
6. Our business owners are required to add value as they understand basic BW ‘Value Drivers’
7. Business is confident they will achieve ‘Required Business Value’ from the implementation

Post ProductIon BW/BI
1. Our ‘BI Handbook’ documents BI Strategy, standards, processes and principles for all development activities. It is well communicated
2. We routinely align all new Information requests to Strategic Business, Optimal Delivery Application, prior to tactical approval to a request
3. We use tools that can automatically audit & enhance InfoCube designs (modeling)
4. We have realized anticipated business value from our BW projects

5. Our business users are satisfied with the BW report reliability and performance
6. Our ‘Business User’ satisfaction ratings are upwards of 80%
7. We have few issues getting Business Sponsors and/or budgets due to our high user satisfaction ratings

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If you have answered single ‘No’ to any of the above questions, you might want to consider speaking to a BI Value Architect