Consulting: Business Analysis Requirements
Aligning the data warehouse with the business’ requirements is absolutely critical to a successful data warehousing initiative. Period. Best-of-breed tools or sophisticated designs won’t salvage a data warehouse project that fails to focus on the business. The business’s requirements impact almost every decision made during the course of a data warehouse implementation.

The Kimball Group interviews key business management and knowledge workers to understand their business objectives, analytic requirements and associated potential business impact, and project success criteria. In addition, we conduct data discovery interviews with IT representatives knowledgeable about the key source systems to ensure that appropriate, feasible boundaries are established early in the process. Finally, we facilitate a session with business and IT management to reach consensus on next steps, similar to the process described in the Readiness Assessment and Strategy Prioritization offering.

The Kimball Group’s requirements deliverable typically covers the following topics: critical business and analytic requirements, feasibility of existing systems and data to support the capabilities required, preliminary data bus architecture with common business dimensions, initial project success criteria, and key issues/risks along with tactical and strategic recommendations.

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