For organizations looking to achieve a strategic competitive advantage, a Business Intelligence (BI) Strategy is a key component for enhanced profitability. Animato’s BI Strategy solutions help organizations align data collection with key performance measures. This process also involves assessing the capability of current technology to deliver the performance information needed to track organizational improvement.

The following topics are evaluated during a BI Strategy:

  • BI Business Goals
  • Performance Measures and Metrics
  • Tactical Business Requirements
  • Current Reporting Systems and Methods
  • Network, Hardware, Software and Database Environment
  • Reporting Tools
  • Portals
  • Data Acquisition and Database Design
  • Metadata Environment

We drive the strategy, design and execution of business intelligence solutions. The Animato Team includes consultants, business analysts, technical architects, developers, and web designers who work together to create dashboards and reports that extend across the enterprise.

Benefits of the BI Strategy include:

  • Understanding and increasing visibility into strategic business initiatives with high ROI
  • Evaluating existing BI initiatives and realigning projects with strategic business objectives
  • Determining if existing technology infrastructure can support strategic BI initiatives and recommending changes if necessary
  • Capitalizing on a BI strategy roadmap that covers business and technology implementation considerations

BI Strategy Solutions include several key steps:

  • Perform an internal review with focus on six key areas: requirements assessment, performance measures, report management, strategic and technology fit, report automation, and software configuration management
  • Develop reporting tool criteria based on the internal review insights
  • Evaluate multiple vendors for point reporting and BI suite solutions for best fit
  • Establish a detailed plan for vendor selection, demonstration and assessment
  • Create designs for key indicators and web pages
  • Identify proper data sources from across enterprise and from third-party vendors
  • Develop and test data loading processes
  • Develop and test the reports and user interface
  • Create training materials and train the user community
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