Information Access & Analytics
Information Access and Analytics services play a critical role in your information strategy because they drive organizational alignment across multiple dimensions:
Organizationally To coordinate and manage stakeholder requirements to support a single version of the truth
Technically To enforce consistency in common descriptive attributes across different systems
Operationally To drive economies of scale, facilitate integration of data on a common infrastructure, and provide a consistent end user experience
Legally To ensure compliance with your organization’s data handling standards
Fiscally To ensure compliance with regulatory and compliance mandates, such as Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA
A process driven by business requirements
Ajilitee’s Agile methodology ensures the information delivery and means of access are driven from business needs and requirements. Early in the project’s analysis phase, our solution architect works in lock-step with the business analysts, utilizing business use cases and strawman report frameworks to sketch the alternatives for and selection of information access strategies. The approach utilizes Agile iterative design and development, including early prototypes.
Alignment of data acquisition processes with information access and delivery requirements
We coordinate cross-team activities to obtain an early sampling of formatted and valid data samplings that will support fruitful prototyping sessions. We consider expected data growth and necessary data validation processes. Iterative report prototyping serves as the feedback loop to the other teams to address data issues and incorporate additional business, transformation, and validation rules and provide early insight to business requirements. In this way, we align all the ETL and data acquisition processes with the information access and delivery requirements Security and disaster recovery is built into this process as well.
User-driven approval of quality assurance, performance and user acceptance testing
A key aspect of the overall quality assurance test strategy is rooted in a user approval for the solution as provided by the Information Access and Analytics strategy. The user community validates that the output of the end user reporting tool and analytical application is correct and meets requirements. Then performance testing of the Information Access and Analytics strategy validates that the query response time of the application is expected and acceptable.
Delivery that meets business community maturity and access needs
Our Information Access and Analytics approach is attuned to different types of users — from casual viewers to power users, to predictive modelers and data miners — and we recognize that each one is different and has different needs. Our solutions reflect the level of sophistication and maturity of the organization as well. We guide you in choosing, designing, and implementing the best analytical solution for the following:
- Reporting (operational, web reports, exception reports, scorecards)
- Analyzing (OLAP, ROLAP, planning and forecasting)
- Predicting (linear regression analysis, optimization, simulation)
- Monitoring (dashboards, alerts, decision engines, agents)
