Rapid BI - Business Intelligence on a Budget
WaveTwo specializes in a process we call "Rapid Bi". We firmly believe that it is often best to take a focused, time-box approach to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence with the intent of delivering useful functionality in days and weeks vs. months and years. By selecting a few key metrics and operational data sources to focus on, a fully-baked Data Mart and OLAP cubes can be delivered in less than two person-months (typically). It is even possible that the business can begin to get incremental benefit within a week or two of starting the engagement. The best part of this rapidly-build Data Mart is that it is not a throwaway prototype; it usually can form the core of a larger Data Warehouse initiative.
WaveTwo is adept at working with a client's Subject-matter Experts and existing data sources to quickly get at the heart of what needs to be done. We don't need weeks and weeks of analysis and design to try and learn the business from scratch and flesh everything out in advance. Our rapid, iterative approach to designing, building, testing, and implementing Business Intelligence solutions shows results quickly and validates a client's idea or concept in short order. This is often a crucial part of the success of the overall effort; getting these early results in the hands of the business sponsor and validating IT's partnership with WaveTwo in their Business Intelligence efforts.
- Brief, focused mission & deliverable scope
- Time-box effot, "design as you go"
- Utilizing client expertise and resources to speed up the development lifecycle
- Concentrate on a group of related metrics
- Useable results in weeks, not months
Maturity Model
One of the best things about Business Intelligence is its ability to scale, giving companies a way to phase in BI according to the pace they wish to move. The model below depicts these phases of maturity, going from data that is segregated into departmental silos and invisible to other layers of the organization to the full maturity model featuring predictive analytics – the point at which data flows freely enough to provide the maximum benefit.
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