Services Overview

DecisionPath offers a full complement of BI and DW professional services – all aimed at helping to ensure the success and reduce the risk of your BI/DW initiatives. While we are strong across the board, where we excel is in helping you make sure your investment in BI/DW pays off. While many consulting companies are capable of building data warehouses, frequently these efforts are “IT-centric” and/or “tool-driven” in approach. This has proven to increase the risk that the “information” delivered won’t be used or that the data warehouse will eventually have to be redesigned to achieve improved alignment with true business needs.

DecisionPath overcomes these and other risks by ensuring proper business alignment from the start. Our proven approaches for doing this are based on an integrated set of business and technical activities that we have used in large organizations in a wide range of industries, which we call the BI Pathway Method. This method combines our innovative, business-driven BI analysis and design methods with proven technical delivery practices to systematically reduce BI/DW program risk and substantially improve the return on your BI/DW investments.

At a more specific level, some of the typical problem statements we hear include variants of:

• “We’re not getting the expected ROI from our BI/DW initiative”
• “There’s a lack of usage – people aren’t using the BI applications”
• “We have a lack of funding and business sponsorship”
• “We don’t have a good handle on requirements”
• “It takes too long to run queries against our data warehouse”
• “Our current architecture won’t meet new requirements from users”
• “The BI tools we have don’t support our current information needs”
• “User excitement about the potential of BI has created unrealistic delivery expectations”
• “Different data stores provide different answers to the same business question”
• “We have data quality problems – the data won’t tie back to the source data”
• “We’re not sure what roles and skills we need for our BI/DW team”
• “We don’t have a handle on how many people we will need for our BI/DW team”
• “We’re having trouble figuring out what a realistic budget would be”
• “Business users keep changing the requirements and we can’t keep up”

DecisionPath has the experience, methods, and tools to work creatively with you to resolve these and other typical challenges. While our BI Pathway Method is comprehensive and rigorous, it is also very flexible and modular. We have used the BI Pathway in a variety of industries and our clients were at different stages of BI maturity. Some were essentially clean slates. Others had years of BI experience and had already established large-scale BI environments. Based on these experiences, we are confident that the BI Pathway Method is appropriate for any organization, in any industry, and at any stage of BI maturity.