InfoSTEP Inc. solutions in Business Intelligence are geared towards increasing your process efficiencies. Naturally, this endeavor, while necessary, comes with its own challenges. This is where InfoSTEP Inc. will be your trusted partner, addressing your unique needs in a tactical manner and providing strategic focus for your organization.

Irrespective of the size of the company or engagement, our business intelligence solutions are driven by best-in-class methodology and a thorough understanding your requirements. Additionally we bring in innovation through our industry standard templates and reusable frameworks as well as InfoSTEP Inc.’s global delivery capabilities (as required) to make sure that your return on value is completely optimized from a cost and time perspective. Our solutions and services span process improvements, data quality, change management, governance, data integration, data visualization and performance measurement.

Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy

Your challenge: Enterprise roadmap for enabling actionable business intelligence (where do I even start problem)

The basic cornerstone of your BI Initiative is initially mapping a roadmap that can deliver to corporate goals, at the same time make sure that there are tangible deliverables identified to take the solution to your user markets. Typically, this activity takes 1 - 4 weeks depending on the size of your company.

Process Measurement and Improvement

Your challenge: What are the KPIs I need to measure and improve the performance of my group/ initiative/ operations?

Process Improvement and Measurement forms the actionable part of Business Intelligence. InfoSTEP Inc.’s approach is based on Six Sigma DMAIC methodology enhanced with pre defined KPIs specific to your industry and specific business process under consideration. This approach allows InfoSTEP Inc. to deliver accurate results within shorter time frames. Typically our approach takes 1.5 - 8Process Improvement and Measurement forms the actionable part of Business Intelligence. InfoSTEP Inc.’s approach is based on Six Sigma DMAIC methodology enhanced with pre defined KPIs specific to your industry and specific business process under consideration. This approach allows InfoSTEP Inc. to deliver accurate results within shorter time frames. Typically our approach takes 1.5 - 8 weeks depending on the complexity of process and data sufficiency/availability for analysis. At the end of this engagement, you will have a clear idea of 'what needs to be done to improve the process performance' and 'How can I monitor the performance' on a continuing basis.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

InfoSTEP Inc.’s EIM approach involves delivering complete solutions or point solutions, depending on client need. Our expertise in Oracle Applications and Salesforce.Com enables us to define and implement the right solutions for your EIM/ MDM/ CDI initiatives. The solutions can range from end to end architecture implementations or specific solutions to address your immediate needs, e.g. Data Cleansing, Data Migration, and Modeling, etc. Typical engagements take 2 weeks to12 months depending on the scope and complexity of your environment.

Business Intelligence Platform Evaluation

There are three key elements to InfoSTEP Inc.’s platform evaluation strategy:

1. Unbiased recommendation solely based on your requirements, irrespective of our partner alignments
2. A quick prototype enablement of solution using top 3 vendor technologies enabling user experience ratings. A real test of the platform suitability to your requirements is the most critical aspect of your evaluation process, irrespective of all industry indicators. Our solution includes a quick prototype and rollout of top 3 platforms (using your sample data) to your selected audience to feel, touch and experience the platform enabling consensus among selection of the finalists.
3. Adequacy graph representing how each of the short listed platform stacks within your requirements context so that the choice of vendor is clear cut and unbiased.

Typical engagements are 2 - 4 weeks in duration.

Enterprise Data Modeling

Enabling a common data model (CDM) across the enterprise is a prerequisite for any large Business Intelligence initiative. CDM provides a view of your enterprise entities and participating data flows across business processes enabling a scalable architecture. This activity enables proper functional and IT engagement in a large DW implementation. While our end goal is to provide you with the enterprise data model, it is very critical to understand the goals and scope, so that the engagement can be focused and deliver the model that encompasses the areas that are critical for towards next tangible delivery. This activity is suited for large organizations and will take 8 - 12 weeks of efforts.

Business Intelligence Solution Implementation

InfoSTEP Inc.’s approach in Business Intelligence Solution implementation is based on InfoLEADERSHIP, the methodology that addresses risks and enables proactive management of implementation, enabling highest success rate. As part of the methodology, we also address Change Management related to users by way of training, process flows and prototype reviews.

Platform Migration

InfoSTEP Inc.’s platform migration approach is based on InfoUPGRADE, an upgrade specific methodology that addresses unique challenges associated with migration activities. Most of customers prefer onsite-offshore model to enable migrations that are successful, quick to implement and keep the investments reasonable. Typical migrations can take anywhere from 1 week to 8 weeks depending upon

Current environment size (Number of users/Mappings/Workflows)

Extent of existing customizations and if you choose to keep the customizations or use new features of the tool

Availability of segregated platforms to develop, test and QA the new platform in parallel

Our upgrade offering includes 15 days of 7 X 24 support and fixing of any P1 and P2 issues. We specialize in the upgrades of all technologies related to Business Objects and Informatica.