BI Strategic Solutions

Business Intelligence starts with defining the goals that should be achieved from an enterprise stand point and defining a strategic plan is essential for the long-term success of Business Intelligence solutions. So therefore building an effective Business Intelligence strategy is very critical for the success which ensures that the business is proactively gaining access to the information needs in the most structured and cost effective manner.

Reliable Software's unique strategy is to build a strategic framework for accelerating the delivery of Business Intelligence. The framework maps our Business Intelligence expertise to your business requirements and provides a unique set of processes and tasks that enable us to rapidly step through planning and design activities. Our strategy starts with an in-depth discussion about specific business intelligence goals and guides our customers to commit to the business data that is required in order to effectively develop unique key performance indicators.

Reliable Software is a recognized leader in Business Intelligence and can assist organizations of any size reap the benefits of better information and our BI Strategic Solutions includes the following as listed below.

To learn on how Reliable Software can assist your organization Business Intelligence needs, please send us an email to info@rsrit.com or call us at
(248)477-3555.

BI Strategy Road map & Architecture:

A well-implemented Business Intelligence solution can yield a significant return on investment by simplifying the gathering, organization and visualization of critical information. Before selecting and implementing a BI platform however an organization should spend time identifying clear objectives, fully understanding available BI technologies and determining which of the alternatives best aligns with their goals.

Here is a brief outline of what we do:

  • Review all aspects of a planned or current BI implementation.
  • Conduct a thorough assessment of a planned or current Data Warehouse and recommend an appropriate infrastructure environment.
  • Build a roadmap for BI system selection, deployment, expansion or migration.
  • Recommend ways to optimize data capacity, system security and data retention.
  • Make recommendations for tools and applications that are best suited for the needs.
  • Build a comprehensive project plan for a successful installation.

BI Tool Evaluation/Selection:

In today's technology world selecting a BI solution is a complex task with many different considerations. Reliable Software has in- depth experience in assisting its clients to define, prioritize BI requirements and evaluates BI tool vendor landscape. During this phase Reliable Software will narrow down the available solutions that are right for a specific organization and select the appropriate BI tool set that best fits the business objectives.

Here is a brief outline of what we do:

  • Review and identify the immediate and future BI projects.
  • Review and analyze the functional requirements for the immediate projects that are prioritized by the business.
  • Prepare a detailed list of functional requirements to identify technical function points Create a Vendor RFP
  • Collect and evaluate vendor responses and manage the vendor responses process by designing a matrix by assigning a value to each function point.
  • Identify final one or two vendors and engage them for a POC focusing on key areas of concern and evaluate key factors such as
  • Overall Scalability of the platform
  • Ability to handle large amounts of data
  • Number of users
  • Proactive Delivery & Alerting
  • Web Delivery
  • Data Security
  • Mobile Reporting etc. and more.

BI Education & Training

After configuring, implementing and deploying BI applications, user training plays a key role to demonstrate the features and functionality of the application to the end users through lecture and lab exercises. It is extremely helpful for the end users to become knowledgeable and skilled in the use of the BI application.

Reliable Software has developed a BI Custom training module which helps the users to understand not only the features and functionality of the BI application, but also the data and metadata that is available to them in the environment configured specifically to the organization.

This training module provides the users with an understanding of the structure of the BI configured environment, the associated business rules and definitions as well as the data that is available to them. The emphasis of the custom training is to put the learning experience into the context of the data that the users will be accessing for decision-making purposes. In addition, the custom training reinforces the learning experience of the standard training by providing the users with the ability to understand the benefits of the BI application in their environment through lab exercises using their own data. This training approach is more encompassing than standard training alone but requires additional preparation and planning.

Reliable Software has a wealth of experience in developing custom training materials, and it can be the most beneficial learning experience for the users. We have several clients that have chosen this training approach and believe that it can be more effective and streamlined compared to other training approaches for their users. Each training course is developed using detailed learning objectives. The course focuses on the features and functionality of the BI application most important for that client's particular environment.

Here is a brief outline of what we do:

  • Develop a BI Custom training module designed for the end users to understand the features and functionality of the BI application along with the data and metadata.
  • Create Custom training material that provides the users with the associated business rules and definitions in relation to the data.
  • Design and create hands on lab exercise on various reporting application.
  • Design the "Train the Trainers" Program.

BI Maturity Assessment

After deploying a BI Solutions many organizations realize that their business intelligence strategy is robust and undergo several challenges and many questions arise such as multiple technologies that are currently used, inconsistent data, KPI's that are relevant, why is the access to data limited to a specific region instead of global, multiple instances of the same data, ownership and governance of the data, and the readiness of the organization to adopt a more robust BI strategy etc.

Reliable Software has a proven methodology that engages your enterprise to answer all the questions above and improve your investment in BI using our Assessment Solution .Our framework has gone through several evolutions based on our past experiences and decomposing the assessment is idealistic for optimal results.

The below figure illustrates Reliable Software's innovative framework to conduct a BI Maturity Assessment.

The above framework provides a complete landscape for the assessment strategy and will address several critical areas during the entire life cycle of the assessment.

Here is a brief outline of what we do:

  • Perform a complete health check of your current state of implementation.
  • Provide you with guidance on best practices
  • Provide a roadmap to get you up the BI Intelligence maturity curve