ePartners BI RoadMAP

Three Simple, Effective Steps to Business Intelligence.

Depending where, and to what degree your company has deployed BI solutions, ePartners can help fill in the gaps and take your “business intelligence” to the next level.

To make this happen, we follow a simple, yet effective three-step process:

ePartners BI assessment begins with a comprehensive discovery process. During this process we identify specific business practices and metrics that materially impact the productivity and profitability of your business. We carefully analyze existing decision support tools and their impact at individual and corporate levels. Discovery can take anywhere from days to weeks depending on a company’s organizational readiness, size and technological depth.

Information collected during discovery fuels the ePartners BI RoadMAP, a simple framework that helps clarify decision support objectives, align them with enabling technologies and create an actionable deployment plan. Decision support criteria are categorized as Monitoring, Analytical or Predictive and weighted according to relevance.

Most organizations begin with simple Monitoring tools which allow them to quickly view critical business information and performance metrics. These are typically scorecards, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) designed to help drive accountability and alignment across the organization. Analytics take things a step further by helping to easily analyze and identify trends, opportunities, and threats in your data and share that information throughout your organization. The most advanced type of business intelligence is Predictive. Predictive tools are used to simplify business planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Leveraging predictive BI often requires substantial changes to internal decision processes and a great deal of “top down” endorsement.

More than a one-time project plan, the ePartners BI RoadMAP is the fundamental framework by which current and future BI investments are evaluated.

Once you have the appropriate mix of monitoring, analytical and predictive intelligence in place - we’ll work with you and your team to measure short and long term results. ePartners will help you identify areas that are delivering, areas for improvement and new opportunities to improve the overall decision support process.

By leveraging the ePartners BI RoadMAP framework and leading technologies available from Microsoft - you can be confident we’ll quickly have you on the road to business intelligence success.