The development of a Business Intelligence Roadmap will give you an efficient, high value validation of your BI direction and an assessment of opportunities and challenges to achieving full potential for your BI investments. Your Roadmap will contain quick hit, tactical and strategic recommendations ready for prioritization and immediate action.

The Normandy Group's framework for roadmap development will:

• Quickly and thoroughly assess the current and future states of your BI readiness
• Identify real-world gaps and provide you with a prioritized, actionable BI Roadmap
• Provide estimates of your BI initiatives for budget and bidding purposes
• Transfer knowledge of BI best practices and recommendations specifically designed for your organization

Why a Business Intelligence Roadmap?

The ability to leverage enterprise information assets to strategic advantage is critical in today's competitive environment. Many companies are experiencing annual growth of over 25% in operational data and are challenged to keep up with the demand for new information access. Without a strong Business Intelligence Roadmap, organizations will not realize the full value of their information assets.

The Normandy Group's Business Intelligence experts bring proven methodologies, architectural best practices and an average of over ten years BI experience to the development of your BI Roadmap. The Normandy Group teams have successfully created BI Roadmaps for major corporations and can do the same for your organization, typically within only 2-6 weeks.

Our BI Roadmap incorporates BI industry best practices to achieve success

• Dimensions considered for analysis include:
• Business Information Needs/Vision
• Enterprise Information Strategy
• Information Quality
• Organizational/Operational Readiness
• Business Cost/Value
• Information Architecture
• Technical Architecture

The Normandy Group's approach is unbiased towards specific technologies and solutions.

• Team Oriented Approach: Our focus is on team mechanics and our delivery is geared towards collaboration with your staff.
• Rapid Feedback: Our iterative process provides immediate feedback.
• Tailorable: Offerings range from full BI readiness roadmapping to specific aspect/domain assessment, e.g. data mart performance and integration, depending on your specific needs.

Deliverables

Project Initiation:

• Statement of Work
• Project Charter
• Kickoff Meeting

Project Planning

• Project Plans
• Financial
• Risk
• Communications
• Deliverable Requirements and Planning

Project Execution:

• BI Assessment: framework, findings, recommendations, gap analysis, risk matrix, benefits and value matrix, user information matrix, references, diagrams/appendices of supporting materials and more.
• Roadmap: proposed tools and technologies, timeline of prioritized recommendations and approach, recommended measurements and more.

Project Monitoring and Control

Project Closure

• Knowledge Transfer
• Lessons Learned
• Project Acceptance and Evaluation