Full Implementation
We at iDecisions Pvt Ltd. have been associated with the development of various BI projects from start to finish. Today’s business environment has made Business Intelligence (BI) systems indispensable to an organization’s success. BI systems turn a company's raw data into useable information that can help management identify important trends, analyze customer behavior, and make intelligent business decisions quickly. Business Intelligence systems have been used to needs such as efficiency and productivity.
We are seasoned experts in all the phases of the BI development life cycle, including:
- Project planning, organization and management
- Working with the business to gather business requirements, based on these requirements designing BI functionality to meet these needs.
- Designing and implementing and BI architecture
- Providing tool specific inputs for the development of logical model for better performance
- Selection and use of Business Intelligence (BI) & On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools to provide the necessary business functionality
Our Methodology
Project scoping and sizing:
For any project to be successful, it is extremely necessary to know the Enterprise Infrastructure of the business. An enterprise infrastructure must exist or be developed while the BI applications are developed. Understanding the enterprise structure should cover the following components:
- Technical infrastructure which includes hardware, software, middleware, database management systems, operating systems, network components, and applications.
- Non-technical infrastructure which includes data naming standards, enterprise data architecture (evolving), methodology, guidelines, testing procedures, change control process, issues management procedures and dispute resolution procedures
- Having discussions with the Business and the IT team in order to determine the exact requirements of the user. Good requirements and scope control are quintessential to any project, but they are of paramount importance.
- Based on the requirements gathered from the client a project plan is developed which includes the scope of the project and development phases involved. After getting approval from the client, an official sign-off is taken for the same.
- According to duration of the project and the skill sets required for the successful execution of the project, iDecisions develops a resource plan specifying the consultants who will be involved in the project.
Design Phase:
There may be one or more databases which will be storing the business data in detailed or aggregated form, depending on the reporting requirements of the users. Not all reporting requirements are strategic and not all of them are multidimensional. The database design schema must cover all the requirements of the business.
- After the requirements are frozen, the designing is undertaken on the basis of architecture diagrams, use cases, object models, etc.
- The changes as per the client’s needs are tracked during the course of design and are documented. This is amongst one of the best practices which we follow during the course of execution of projects.
- The requirements and design reviews and sign-offs help ensure both parties are in sync with the problem definition, and how it will get solved.
- However, in general there are sufficient underlying bugs or other caveats in any development project, that we strongly recommend iterative coding and feedback loop.
Development Phase:
- Developing the physical model based on the logical design created at the design phase.
- Developing reports according to requirements specified by the users
Testing Phase:
- Based on the developed reports a thorough Test Plan is created by considering all the possible aspects.
- Testing would include Integrated system Testing as well as Performance Testing.
- Successful testing is followed by creation of user manual and other required documents. The documents are created in an extensive format by keeping client satisfaction as the basic criteria.
- Once the documents are in place, the User Acceptance Testing (UAT). The user manual is the basis of reference in the UAT process
Deployment:
After thorough testing of all the components of the BI application, the BI databases and functions are rolled out. Users are trained and the support functions initiated. These functions include help desk support, maintenance of the BI target databases, scheduling and running batch jobs, performance monitoring and database tuning.
- After User Acceptance Testing and resolving issues if any, the production environment is set up for deployment.
- The project is then deployed on to the production server.
- Once the deployment becomes successful, an official sign-off is taken from the client.
- Business User Training is also provided to the client if need persists.
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