Success
is not guaranteed.
Information has become
a strategic asset
for most organizations
to solve very complex
business problems.
Mastering the art
of coordinated planning
and timely decision-making
across the enterprise
has become a necessity
in the information
age.
Business
Intelligence solutions
aim to address complex
business issues by
providing knowledge
workers with easy
access to the right
information, at any
time, from any place
within the organization.
Utilizing Business
Intelligence technologies,
knowledge workers
are empowered to spend
more time analyzing
information and less
time gathering data.
When Business Intelligence
solutions are implemented
at the enterprise
level, organizations
are able to efficiently
and cost effectively
transform data from
various disparate
sources into useable
information. The Business
Intelligence solution
then drives the mission
critical decisions
for your organization.
In
order to achieve this
level of information
integration and availability,
it is imperative to
start with an “architectural
blueprint” which
serves as a roadmap
for building the Business
Intelligence framework.
Influence Software
will assist you in
creating this framework
via our Business Intelligence
Strategic Planning
Service.
Issues
with Packaged Application
Implementation
These
scenarios, although
they focus on different
potential issues with
an application implementation,
all have a common
theme. The commonality
lies in the need for
the implementation
to address the total
needs of your business.
To get the return
on investment that
your company needs
to justify the project,
you must control the
cost and the time
that it takes to begin
using the applications.
At the same time,
to be effective, “new
tools” require
new processes and
the issues involved
in change management
must be addressed.
Your company is unique
in the way that it
does business. When
“uniqueness”
is key to your success
and culture, it should
be preserved. When
it is the result of
old systems and old
policies, the company
should change. How
does a company know
what to keep and what
to change and how
to do this on-time,
within budget?
Influence’s
Application Implementation
Services Solution
Influence’s
Application Implementation
Services use a top
down approach to systems
implementation that
effectively focuses
the implementation
on the most effective
use of the software,
as a tool to help
improve your business.
The implementation
begins by defining
your company’s
key business processes,
and mapping them to
the application. Starting
with what needs to
be done, Influence
focuses the discussions
on how it will be
done using the application’s
processes, rather
than past practices.
Setting up the system
early, with test settings
and sample data, allows
the team to “design”
and test their solution
in the application,
promoting process
change acceptance
and reducing customizations.
The keys to On-Time,
On-Budget, On-Target
applications implementations
are knowing what needs
to be done, promoting
effective process
change and using professional,
experienced project
management to keep
the project team focused
on the goal –
improving your business
with new tools and
processes.
Business
Intelligence Strategic
Planning Service
Influence’s
Business Intelligence
Strategic Planning
Service provides the
critical planning
phase required to
identify enterprise
business intelligence
information needs
for today and into
the future. The Strategic
Planning Service includes
the development of
the following deliverables:
