What's the best way to proceed with your data warehouse project? How do you know how long it will take, how much money to budget, how many people will be needed, and what third-party products should be purchased? Budgets are tight and you can't afford to make the wrong decisions.

Many of our business intelligence customers have the same questions. We can help by providing an assessment of your proposed or current data warehouse and business intelligence projects that helps answer all of your questions. You'll be armed with the knowledge you need to ensure that your project will be a success in the eyes of the business users and the IT department.

For all data warehouse assessment consulting, we interview and discuss the project with the people involved in the business group, IT, and the project team. We will leverage your work-to-date and objectively assess where you are compared to best practices.

When to Conduct a Data Warehouse Project Assessment
There are several milestones where it is appropriate for us to perform a business intelligence and data warehouse project assessment:

• Start of project
• During your project
• At the end of the project or a particular project phase
• During the assessment we will analyze the following areas of the data warehouse project:
• Review of business and technical requirements
• Assess business, IT and project team resources and skills
• Review proposed architecture
• Data, Information
• Technology
• Product
• Review project plan
• Perform gap analysis of above

Data Warehouse Assessment Results
At the end of the assessment, we will provide a list of recommendations based on where you are in the life-cycle process and the state of your current efforts. These recommendations may include:

• Proposed scope and requirements
• Risk assessment
• Roles and responsibilities
• Project team composition and skills (both business and IT)
• Data warehouse/business intelligence strategy, approach, program and iteration phases
• Technology short-list
• Architecture approach (data, information, technology, product)
• Project and resource plans