OBJECTIVES

A healthy business intelligence solution is an ongoing challenge : aligning the operational processes with the business strategy and controlling the performance in a constantly changing environment.

Before extending the scope, planning an upgrade or moving to an enterprise-wide architecture, an audit will highlight the risks, measure the effort and recommend optimization.

Intensum offers a unique audit program in order to quickly analyze your SAP Business Intelligence / Business Objects solution and to maximize your return on future investments..

PAINPOINTS

Our experience learns that a BI solution suffers from a number of issues after a couple of operational months/years, issues that disturb the evolution of the data warehouse, such as :

• Performance of queries & reports
• Data quality and duplication of infoproviders
• Non-stable ETL environment
• Gap between business processes & data models
• Undocumented procedures & statistics
• Non-conformity with changed compliance regulations

METHODOLOGY

The SAP BI audit program comes with deliverables such as reports, metrics, scorecards and matrices, and the methodology focuses on the most important issues your business intelligence system is suffering from :

• The gaps between strategy & processes
• Performance issues and data quality
• Stability of the ETL process
• BI usage cartography
• Data model consistency
• Cleansing of data model redundancy
• Security, roles & authorizations
• Alignment with SAP NetWeaver technology
• Conformity with new compliance regulations
• Documentation of procedures and implemented content

DELIVERABLES

Typically, the process of a BI audit focuses on one or multiple functional areas (financials, sales, purchasing, etc.) and comes with :

• Data model documentation
• Recommendations for data model cleansing
• Rationalized portfolio of key figures, characteristics & key performance indicators (KPI)
• BI usage trend analysis
• Performance statistics & optimization guidelines
• Upgrade roadmap & validation procedures
• ETL optimization advice
• Scope extension action plan (functional & technical)