Business Intelligence & Analytics

Assess your BI & Analytics initiatives.

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This Business Analytics analyses six dimensions in each of the sections strategy and operations that are necessary to successfully determining your maturity level and improving structures and processes:

Strategy/ Operations:

Reporting & Analytics
Organization
BI Governance
Data Management
IT Infrastructure
BI Service

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Companies frequently reach their limits when implementing Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A), as established processes have to be completely redesigned.

Clear objectives and shared motivation are needed to bring about sustainable change. These two factors can be created and communicated and conveyed in an easily comprehensible way only if the starting position is clear.

You are asked about your perception of business intelligence process analysis (BI and analytics). The actual status of the business intelligence in your company is produced from your answers, which helps you to assess and optimize this aspect of your organization.

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1/12 Strategy - Reporting & Analytics

To what extent are the functions and content of BI&A applications geared towards the company's strategic goals?

Low to medium on scale irrespective of the business division.

Sufficient for the completion of the individual tasks.

Medium to high on scale defined by your company for pursuit of operational and strategic goals.

On scale of Medium to High defined by your company for pursuit of operational and strategic goals.

2/12 Strategy - Organisation

Does the specialist department have a common understanding of what the project goal is and what work is involved in the project?

There is a clearly defined project goal.

The project is clearly defined and quantifiable (quantifiable project goal).

The team has a common understanding of what the quantifiable project goal is.

The team has a common understanding of what the quantifiable project goal is and identifies with this goal.

3/12 Strategy - BI Governance

Does your company have a BI strategy equipped with the following characteristics?

BI strategy with a focus on technology and tools

Comprehensive BI strategy (with a focus on organisation, processes and technology inter alia) including a defined roadmap

BI strategy is regularly updated and rigorously defined in line with potential, e.g. with a view to cost leadership and sales opportunities.

4/12 Strategy - Data Management

The data stewards have a clear and quantifiable goal as to why they support data quality.

0 (not at all)

10 (comprehensive)

5/12 Strategy - BI architecture

Which characteristics apply to the BI platform at your company?

Local, non-standardized BI environment.

Dezentrale Data Warehouse Systeme und zentrales Enterprise Data Warehouse.

A balance between centralised and local systems based on the company's organisational structure (few vs. many local units).

Local, yet harmonised systems (different systems linked using standardised KPIs and dimensions).

Highly centralised data storage.

6/12 Strategy - BI Service

BI applications are provided with the intention to offer training, support and maintenance to the end user, in addition to the functionalities and data of the BI application. IT applications are delivered to the end user as a service.

0 (not at all)

10 (fully encapsulated, for example according to ITIL)

7/12 Operations - Reporting & Analytics

KPIs and data from BI&A processes are being used to set goals and provide assistance for operational and strategic processes.

0 (not at all)

10 (comprehensive, e.g. overarching goals are broken down into quantifiable subgoals for processes and activities with quantitative measurement criteria and measurements, see COBIT)

8/12 Operations - Organisation

Does the team in the business department have counterpoise of required competency, needed to define him as a specialist, such as problem-solving, decision-making, and social competencies?

The team has the relevant specialist expertise.

The team delivers innovative and creative solutions.

The team constantly strives to improve and reach its goal.

the team is constantly improving through feedback and training.

9/12 Operations - BI governance

The BI strategy is regularly communicated with the aim of raising awareness.The goals for predefined targets are driven, defined and achieved

0 (not at all)

10 (comprehensive, e.g. the organisation's business is heavily influenced by the BI strategy)

10/12 Operations - Data Management

The level of commitment shown by the stewards to optimise and further develop data quality is very high.

0 (not at all)

10 (comprehensive, e.g. high level of proactive commitment)

11/12 Operations - IT infrastructure

Which BI tools/skills does your company have at its disposal?

static reports

static reports and ad-hoc analyses

static analyses, ad-hoc analyses, data mining and forecast modelling

12/12 Operations - BI Service

Which characteristics do the BI systems in your company have? (Please select all that apply)

Availibility: No breakdowns, maintenance in brief windows outside of core operating hours, batch processes are continuously ongoing.

Homogenity: Only a select set of tools are used as standard in the company.

Up-to-dateness: The tools deployed are equipped from end to end with up-to-date functionality and operating interfaces.

Performance: The users of the BI systems are satisfied with the reaction time to queries.

SLAs: The BI systems operate based on defined service level agreements.

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