Description
Transforming Information into Business Intelligence Solutions
FUJITSU
CONSULTING
Transforming Information into
Business Intelligence Solutions
Business Intelligence
Client Challenges
The ability to make fast, reliable decisions based on accurate and
usable information is essential to most business enterprises.
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions aim at achieving critical business
advantage by providing knowledge workers with easy access to the
right information, on demand, from wherever it is created and/or
maintained within the organization. With the right strategy, an
organization can transform data from various disparate sources into
usable formats that provide timely knowledge of business-
critical information, including customer relations, markets, suppliers,
emerging trends, and internal operations.
BI and data warehousing techniques are key enablers of e-business
strategies as well as Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
programs. They integrate data and customer information across
business functions and customer interaction channels, and make it
easier to work with partners and customers.
Fujitsu Consulting Business Intelligence Solutions
Fujitsu Consulting delivers integrated solutions that empower knowledge workers to access data from
existing production databases and applications across the enterprise—anywhere in the organization—using
the power of advanced data warehousing and decision support solutions and services. We understand that
building an effective BI solution involves a considerable amount of effort to ensure usability and value for
the business enterprise. Every enterprise has unique data requirements for the type and format of
information it needs. An effective BI solution provides information that is:
Specific to your business problem
Easily accessible
Available in a choice of formats
Organized to simplify reporting
Timely and reliable
Consistent across your enterprise
Integrated with other relevant data
To meet these expectations, BI solutions must overcome significant challenges presented by:
Inconsistent data models and data definitions
Multiple data formats
Multiple system applications
Disparate technological platforms
Various end-user reporting tools
Fujitsu Consulting is flexible and responsive to your needs. We have proven capabilities as a leading BI
solution provider. Our customers benefit because we leverage our extensive systems integration and BI
experience. We employ an architected approach to target high-value benefits, leverage overlapping
resources, use common technologies, share data and, ultimately, increase ROI. Most importantly,
our BI solutions focus on supporting business objectives to improve the decision-making process while
improving the performance of decision support systems.
Frameworks for Faster, Easier Implementation
Our customizable frameworks, built around leading technologies and products, are used to jump-start
projects and achieve value across the enterprise faster by providing a foundation for solving specific
business problems. These frameworks define and integrate the components of a BI solution. We start
with our Business Intelligence Technology Framework, that defines a comprehensive data warehouse
architecture, from user access through to database and warehouse management.
The availability of low-cost, off-the-shelf components makes building BI solutions faster, easier, and more
cost-effective. We are constantly creating and enhancing our Solution Frameworks in order to meet the
demands of our customers in a changing business climate. Some of our solution frameworks include:
Customer Information Solution Framework—to enable integration of legacy and third-party data into a
customized model and the integration of third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
products. Sales, financial, ordering, billing and customer care data can be collected from any type of
legacy source, including the web.
ERP Solution Framework—to create data marts from common ERP modules. An automatic extraction
and mapping component for ERP data simplifies access to ERP data and enables integration with
remaining legacy applications.
Financial Consolidation Solution Framework—to enable organizations to capture financial data from
heterogeneous environments into a consolidated model for financial reporting and analysis.
DataWorX Database Marketing Solution Framework—to allow organizations to capture data surrounding
the entire marketing and marketing support process, in order to better understand customer trends,
opportunities, acquisition, and churn. DataWorX provides a foundation for the development and
execution of targeted marketing campaigns.
We also offer a robust framework designed to ensure that the promised benefits of BI solutions find their
way to your bottom line. Our Benefits Realization approach helps you proactively manage major
investment initiatives “from concept to cash.” It enables you to paint a complete picture of all the
potential end-benefits of an investment and all the actions needed to get the desired results. Then, you
can move on to systematically pursue key initiatives, implement changes, track progress, and measure the
benefits for all to see. In the process, the entire organization gradually gains confidence that its
investments in BI solutions will produce the expected benefits.
A Core Enabler of Extended Enterprises
Many organizations are in the process of integrating internal information systems and business processes
with those of customers, business partners, and suppliers. They are building truly integrated value chains
with these players—creating extended enterprises, enabled by shared electronic applications. The end
result is to extend enterprise functionality to entire electronic trading communities.
The extended enterprise of the 21
st
century will only work if users across the value chain—including both
supply and demand chains—can get the information needed to support key decisions and processes. In
this context, BI systems are a core enabler of the extended enterprise—"from end to end." We can develop
best-practice BI and data warehouse strategies that incorporate an integrated approach to the abundance of
tools available.
Comprehensive Support
As illustrated, our solution framework provides a roadmap to
leverage value-added specialized solutions that minimize project
time frames while addressing critical business needs through
defined solutions. Fujitsu Consulting BI experts employ tools and
technologies that enable knowledge workers to analyze the
information contained within the enterprise to achieve results and
return on investment. The types of tools and technologies we
employ include ad hoc query, report writing, decision support
systems (DSSs), executive information systems (EISs) and often,
techniques such as statistical analysis, online analytical
processing (OLAP) and data mining.
A Choice of Service Offerings
Fujitsu Consulting BI service offerings to provide an end-to-end BI
solution, from planning through implementation and deployment.
Services range from strategic to tactical and operational
initiatives, and include:
SolutionBuilder
Enterprise Reporting
Data Migration
BI Organizer
BI Sustainment
Benefits Monitoring
BI In a Nutshell
Executive Workshop
Business Intelligence Strategy
Assessments
Discovery
Technology Evaluation
Proof of Concept
We can also provide you with focused support during a specific
stage or stages of a BI initiative. Fujitsu Consulting delivers
comprehensive BI solutions to support you throughout your BI
initiative lifecycle. Strategic service offerings serve to develop a
framework and plan for the implementation of BI in the
organization. Tactical service offerings range from assessing the
success of existing undertakings that may not be achieving
anticipated returns to offerings that assist in all phases of the
delivery of BI solutions. These can be the development of custom
solutions or the implementation of predefined BI solutions or
frameworks. Operational services assist you in the management of
the BI solution and ensure ongoing value to the organization.
Fujitsu Consulting can engage you in any stage of the lifecycle
through our service offerings and provide a roadmap for success
in your BI initiatives.
BI in a Nutshell. As for many other recent technologies and tools,
the nature and the potential contribution of Business Intelligence
and Data Warehousing are not yet mastered by everyone. BI in a
Nutshell is intended to provide small groups of IT professionals,
users, and managers with basic education about Business
Intelligence.
Interactively, using presentation material, workshops and real life
examples, the groups are briefed for half a day or less on:
What is BI?
The business value and contribution of BI
The status of the BI industry
The various packaged solutions and tools available
The basic required components
The relationships with other initiatives like ERP
implementation and CRM
Best practices
Executive Workshop. This half- or full-day facilitated workshop
allows executives to articulate their vision around BI by gaining an
understanding of the application and fit of a BI solution in their
organization. A consensus will be gained by focusing in on the
current state of the business, where they want to take it, and what
the options are to get there.
Business Intelligence Strategy. Strategic planning is critical to the
ultimate success of any high-impact BI initiative. Our BI Strategy
offering helps you focus on key goals, minimize risks and plan for
a successful BI deployment. By applying an architected approach,
we help you:
Target high-value benefits by identifying your goals,
objectives, information needs, and the current approach
to resolving these needs
Leverage overlapping resources, use common technologies
and share data by identifying internal and external information
producers, availability of data, volumetrics of data, and data
quality
Identify risks and dependencies, and develop plans for
managing both, ultimately increasing your organization’s ROI
Our BI Strategy offering includes a comprehensive Business
Intelligence Plan and Strategy document to use as a roadmap
throughout your BI initiative’s lifecycle. Our BI Strategy offering is
also fully integrated with our Benefits Realization approach to help
define the right roadmap to achieving and maximizing your BI
investments across the business enterprise.
Optimize the value of your information
Technology
Evaluation &
Selection
Discovery
Assessments
Strategy
BI in a
Nutshell
Executive
Workshop
Proof of Concept
SolutionBuilder
Enterprise
Reporting
Data
Migration
Packaged
Solutions/
Frameworks
Technology
Installation &
Setup
BI
Sustainment
Benefits
Monitoring
BI
Organizer
Strategic Tactical Operational
Consult Integrate Manage
Alliances & Partnerships
Methods & Core Capabilities
Fujitsu Consulting's BI Solution Framework
Assessments. Our Client Readiness Assessment employs a survey
and analysis process to evaluate quickly and objectively your
organization’s readiness to embark on a particular BI initiative. Our
experience and expertise in building world-class BI solutions helps
us help you identify the potential risks and issues before you commit
valuable time and resources to your initiative. Understanding these
risks early in the BI lifecycle can greatly enhance your likelihood of
success. This short-term, fixed-price offering allows you to realize
important benefits quickly, for relatively little risk or expense.
Our Implementation Assessment provides you with an evaluation
of a given BI project segment with regard to its initial objectives.
We evaluate the segment’s success in achieving the original
project objectives by measuring the level of accomplishment of
the defined deliverables. The identification of variances may reveal
deficiencies in a business process, technical architecture or overall
project management methodology.
The Implementation Assessment looks at three areas: business
functionality, technical performance, and project management
methodology. Each of these areas may be assessed on their own or
in combination with another area to provide feedback to project team
members, user communities, and management sponsors.
The Implementation Assessment serves to document project
experience that can be used as an example to improve subsequent
initiatives or additional releases. An Implementation Assessment
may be conducted immediately upon the completion of a given
release or for a mature system.
Discovery. Our BI Discovery service helps define the goals,
objectives, and scope of your BI initiative. This enables you to
decide on the technical approach to adopt as well as define and
prioritize each BI application release.
We work with your business users, technical staff, data owners and
project sponsors to define high-level initiative requirements and an
overall project plan based on your organization’s specific needs and
objectives.
Technology Evaluation. Our Technology Evaluation service is designed
to help you select the right tools or technology for your solution
architecture. We are a vendor-neutral solution provider with proven
experience and expertise in technology evaluation for BI solutions.
By working with Fujitsu Consulting when selecting the tools and
technology for your BI initiative, you will:
Make cost-effective decisions based on the specific requirements
of your BI solution
Achieve architectural synergy and be confident in the
compatibility and interoperability of the various
components of your BI solution
Be assured that all recommendations are based solely
on your needs and requirements, since we are vendor-neutral
Proof of Concept. This is a unique offering designed for customers
who are considering their first BI solution, or reworking or
expanding an existing application. The Proof of Concept offering
is a low-cost, quickly deployed means of demonstrating the value and
power of a BI solution. It is timeboxed to ensure scope
management, and minimizes risk and cost. This offering includes
analysis, design, and development of a functional, small-scale BI
solution using actual customer data. It delivers a fully functional,
reusable, extensible and scalable BI solution.
The Proof of Concept may be right for your organization if you:
Have tight financial constraints
Require turnaround in a short time frame
Have limited experience with Fujitsu Consulting
Need to prove business value, technological fit, or a
“quick win”
SolutionBuilder. Implementation and deployment represents a
significant portion of the overall effort required for any given BI
initiative. Our iterative SolutionBuilder methodology incorporates
best practices from our experience as a leading BI solution provider.
An iterative approach provides timely deployment throughout the
enterprise according to your business priorities. By partitioning the
implementation into smaller work packets, our team is able to
provide tangible business value in relatively short time frames. Risk
is minimized, while flexibility is maximized, through a more
manageable work effort.
The SolutionBuilder phase consists of four stages: (1) definition,
(2) design, (3) development, (4) deployment.
Enterprise Reporting. If your information needs are primarily
operational and require data from a single or only a few places, this
service lets you define and implement effective reporting processes
without building a data warehouse. Our extensive experience with
best-in-class reporting tools, and best practices around their
deployment and implementation, guarantees you will get the data
you need when you need it—fast.
Data Migration. BI initiatives require you to identify all of your
source systems, their owners, and the platforms on which they reside.
You need to know how your organization’s specific business rules
impact your plans for data movement, transformation, storage, and
access. Our Data Migration service helps successfully migrate the
data for your project. We use best-in-class processes and tools,
centered on a comprehensive metadata model for your data
migration. The metadata model is begun during the Discovery and
Planning phase of the data migration and built on throughout the
data migration lifecycle.
BI Organizer. In order to be successful, the development,
implementation, and ongoing life of a Data Warehouse requires many
adjustments to classic existing roles and creation of new specific
roles on both the user and IT sides. Metadata management (new)
and user support (adjusted) are two examples of that.
BI Organizer is intended to support clients in defining, customizing,
and implementing the most appropriate organizational structure in
order to handle every role and responsibility that needs to be taken
care of to maximize the value of your investment in BI. Best
practices templates are used to identify every role and responsibility
that have to be assumed and are mapped with the existing
organizational structure. A gap analysis is then prepared and an
adjusted structure is proposed taking into consideration the specifics
and constraints of your organization.
BI Sustainment. Fujitsu Consulting’s Application Sustainment
services allow you to proactively manage the changing BI business
requirements. Your data warehouse solution will be under constant
and increasing pressure to change from many different sources,
including: demands from your business users, external influences,
source system changes and infrastructure changes.
BI Sustainment delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end application
outsourcing solution to protect and evolve your BI investment, and to
continue empowering your knowledge workers to deliver the required
business results by integrating our Managed Services best practices
and experience with our BI expertise. Our management processes
ensure that the critical and complex elements of your BI solution are
effectively maintained to protect the security, quality and integrity of
the data warehouse. Our application management processes address
the unique aspects of BI sustainment such as: metadata
management, data quality, privacy requirements, and software tools
utilization and maintenance.
Benefits Monitoring. The benefits that are promised early on often fail
to materialize partially or completely. By applying our unique
Benefits Realization approach and Enterprise Value Management
experience to data warehousing, continuous ROI will be generated
from your Business Intelligence solution. This will guide the ongoing
sustainment and enhancement to ensure your solution stays fresh
and relevant to your changing business environment.
Bottom Line
Fujitsu Consulting brings a unique combination of technical and industry expertise to our clients for
transforming information into BI solutions. We maintain a business focus, independent of specific
technologies or platforms. We also bring our unique Benefits Realization approach to ensure that
the promised benefits of your BI solutions find their way to your bottom line.
We tailor our engagement approach to your needs, through:
Partnership/Co-sourcing—We work “elbow-to-elbow” with your staff
Knowledge Transfer/Mentoring—We are committed to making sure you have the required knowledge
and abilities to maintain the solutions we deliver
Consulting Support—We provide both consulting services and experienced practitioners to
deliver solutions
Outsourcing—We provide solution development and/or ongoing support through outsourcing
We are alliance rich, yet vendor-neutral, maintaining partnerships and alliances with numerous leading
vendors, and we are committed to remaining unbiased with regard to vendors, technologies and platforms.
By implementing Fujitsu Consulting’s BI solutions, you transform operational information into
meaningful, timely knowledge about customers, suppliers, internal operations and markets. Your
knowledge workers gain easy access to the information they need to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Headquarters & United States
333 Thornall Street
Edison, NJ 08837
United States
Tel: +1 732 549 4100
Fax: +1 732 549 2375
Canada
Simcoe Place
200 Front Street West
Suite 2300
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5V 3K2
Tel: +1 416 363 8661
Fax: +1 416 363 4739
Quebec
1000 Sherbrooke Street West
Suite 1400
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 3R2
Tel: +1 514 877 3301
Fax: +1 514 877 3351
www.fujitsu.com
Experience the Fujitsu Consulting Difference
A trusted provider of management and technology consulting to business and government, Fujitsu
Consulting is the North American consulting and services arm of the $44.5-billion Fujitsu group.
Fujitsu Consulting integrates the core expertise of the Fujitsu companies and its partners to deliver
complete business solutions in the areas of IT governance, information management, legacy systems
modernization and application outsourcing. Through its full range of consulting, implementation
and IT management services and its industry-recognized strategic approach, Macroscope
®
, Fujitsu
Consulting enables clients to build more value into their IT investments and drive their leadership in
the marketplace.
We work with you to create solutions and produce results that drive your business.
© 2005, Fujitsu Consulting, Inc. Macroscope is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Consulting (Canada) Inc. All rights reserved.
doc_812040552.pdf
Transforming Information into Business Intelligence Solutions
FUJITSU
CONSULTING
Transforming Information into
Business Intelligence Solutions
Business Intelligence
Client Challenges
The ability to make fast, reliable decisions based on accurate and
usable information is essential to most business enterprises.
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions aim at achieving critical business
advantage by providing knowledge workers with easy access to the
right information, on demand, from wherever it is created and/or
maintained within the organization. With the right strategy, an
organization can transform data from various disparate sources into
usable formats that provide timely knowledge of business-
critical information, including customer relations, markets, suppliers,
emerging trends, and internal operations.
BI and data warehousing techniques are key enablers of e-business
strategies as well as Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
programs. They integrate data and customer information across
business functions and customer interaction channels, and make it
easier to work with partners and customers.
Fujitsu Consulting Business Intelligence Solutions
Fujitsu Consulting delivers integrated solutions that empower knowledge workers to access data from
existing production databases and applications across the enterprise—anywhere in the organization—using
the power of advanced data warehousing and decision support solutions and services. We understand that
building an effective BI solution involves a considerable amount of effort to ensure usability and value for
the business enterprise. Every enterprise has unique data requirements for the type and format of
information it needs. An effective BI solution provides information that is:
Specific to your business problem
Easily accessible
Available in a choice of formats
Organized to simplify reporting
Timely and reliable
Consistent across your enterprise
Integrated with other relevant data
To meet these expectations, BI solutions must overcome significant challenges presented by:
Inconsistent data models and data definitions
Multiple data formats
Multiple system applications
Disparate technological platforms
Various end-user reporting tools
Fujitsu Consulting is flexible and responsive to your needs. We have proven capabilities as a leading BI
solution provider. Our customers benefit because we leverage our extensive systems integration and BI
experience. We employ an architected approach to target high-value benefits, leverage overlapping
resources, use common technologies, share data and, ultimately, increase ROI. Most importantly,
our BI solutions focus on supporting business objectives to improve the decision-making process while
improving the performance of decision support systems.
Frameworks for Faster, Easier Implementation
Our customizable frameworks, built around leading technologies and products, are used to jump-start
projects and achieve value across the enterprise faster by providing a foundation for solving specific
business problems. These frameworks define and integrate the components of a BI solution. We start
with our Business Intelligence Technology Framework, that defines a comprehensive data warehouse
architecture, from user access through to database and warehouse management.
The availability of low-cost, off-the-shelf components makes building BI solutions faster, easier, and more
cost-effective. We are constantly creating and enhancing our Solution Frameworks in order to meet the
demands of our customers in a changing business climate. Some of our solution frameworks include:
Customer Information Solution Framework—to enable integration of legacy and third-party data into a
customized model and the integration of third-party Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
products. Sales, financial, ordering, billing and customer care data can be collected from any type of
legacy source, including the web.
ERP Solution Framework—to create data marts from common ERP modules. An automatic extraction
and mapping component for ERP data simplifies access to ERP data and enables integration with
remaining legacy applications.
Financial Consolidation Solution Framework—to enable organizations to capture financial data from
heterogeneous environments into a consolidated model for financial reporting and analysis.
DataWorX Database Marketing Solution Framework—to allow organizations to capture data surrounding
the entire marketing and marketing support process, in order to better understand customer trends,
opportunities, acquisition, and churn. DataWorX provides a foundation for the development and
execution of targeted marketing campaigns.
We also offer a robust framework designed to ensure that the promised benefits of BI solutions find their
way to your bottom line. Our Benefits Realization approach helps you proactively manage major
investment initiatives “from concept to cash.” It enables you to paint a complete picture of all the
potential end-benefits of an investment and all the actions needed to get the desired results. Then, you
can move on to systematically pursue key initiatives, implement changes, track progress, and measure the
benefits for all to see. In the process, the entire organization gradually gains confidence that its
investments in BI solutions will produce the expected benefits.
A Core Enabler of Extended Enterprises
Many organizations are in the process of integrating internal information systems and business processes
with those of customers, business partners, and suppliers. They are building truly integrated value chains
with these players—creating extended enterprises, enabled by shared electronic applications. The end
result is to extend enterprise functionality to entire electronic trading communities.
The extended enterprise of the 21
st
century will only work if users across the value chain—including both
supply and demand chains—can get the information needed to support key decisions and processes. In
this context, BI systems are a core enabler of the extended enterprise—"from end to end." We can develop
best-practice BI and data warehouse strategies that incorporate an integrated approach to the abundance of
tools available.
Comprehensive Support
As illustrated, our solution framework provides a roadmap to
leverage value-added specialized solutions that minimize project
time frames while addressing critical business needs through
defined solutions. Fujitsu Consulting BI experts employ tools and
technologies that enable knowledge workers to analyze the
information contained within the enterprise to achieve results and
return on investment. The types of tools and technologies we
employ include ad hoc query, report writing, decision support
systems (DSSs), executive information systems (EISs) and often,
techniques such as statistical analysis, online analytical
processing (OLAP) and data mining.
A Choice of Service Offerings
Fujitsu Consulting BI service offerings to provide an end-to-end BI
solution, from planning through implementation and deployment.
Services range from strategic to tactical and operational
initiatives, and include:
SolutionBuilder
Enterprise Reporting
Data Migration
BI Organizer
BI Sustainment
Benefits Monitoring
BI In a Nutshell
Executive Workshop
Business Intelligence Strategy
Assessments
Discovery
Technology Evaluation
Proof of Concept
We can also provide you with focused support during a specific
stage or stages of a BI initiative. Fujitsu Consulting delivers
comprehensive BI solutions to support you throughout your BI
initiative lifecycle. Strategic service offerings serve to develop a
framework and plan for the implementation of BI in the
organization. Tactical service offerings range from assessing the
success of existing undertakings that may not be achieving
anticipated returns to offerings that assist in all phases of the
delivery of BI solutions. These can be the development of custom
solutions or the implementation of predefined BI solutions or
frameworks. Operational services assist you in the management of
the BI solution and ensure ongoing value to the organization.
Fujitsu Consulting can engage you in any stage of the lifecycle
through our service offerings and provide a roadmap for success
in your BI initiatives.
BI in a Nutshell. As for many other recent technologies and tools,
the nature and the potential contribution of Business Intelligence
and Data Warehousing are not yet mastered by everyone. BI in a
Nutshell is intended to provide small groups of IT professionals,
users, and managers with basic education about Business
Intelligence.
Interactively, using presentation material, workshops and real life
examples, the groups are briefed for half a day or less on:
What is BI?
The business value and contribution of BI
The status of the BI industry
The various packaged solutions and tools available
The basic required components
The relationships with other initiatives like ERP
implementation and CRM
Best practices
Executive Workshop. This half- or full-day facilitated workshop
allows executives to articulate their vision around BI by gaining an
understanding of the application and fit of a BI solution in their
organization. A consensus will be gained by focusing in on the
current state of the business, where they want to take it, and what
the options are to get there.
Business Intelligence Strategy. Strategic planning is critical to the
ultimate success of any high-impact BI initiative. Our BI Strategy
offering helps you focus on key goals, minimize risks and plan for
a successful BI deployment. By applying an architected approach,
we help you:
Target high-value benefits by identifying your goals,
objectives, information needs, and the current approach
to resolving these needs
Leverage overlapping resources, use common technologies
and share data by identifying internal and external information
producers, availability of data, volumetrics of data, and data
quality
Identify risks and dependencies, and develop plans for
managing both, ultimately increasing your organization’s ROI
Our BI Strategy offering includes a comprehensive Business
Intelligence Plan and Strategy document to use as a roadmap
throughout your BI initiative’s lifecycle. Our BI Strategy offering is
also fully integrated with our Benefits Realization approach to help
define the right roadmap to achieving and maximizing your BI
investments across the business enterprise.
Optimize the value of your information
Technology
Evaluation &
Selection
Discovery
Assessments
Strategy
BI in a
Nutshell
Executive
Workshop
Proof of Concept
SolutionBuilder
Enterprise
Reporting
Data
Migration
Packaged
Solutions/
Frameworks
Technology
Installation &
Setup
BI
Sustainment
Benefits
Monitoring
BI
Organizer
Strategic Tactical Operational
Consult Integrate Manage
Alliances & Partnerships
Methods & Core Capabilities
Fujitsu Consulting's BI Solution Framework
Assessments. Our Client Readiness Assessment employs a survey
and analysis process to evaluate quickly and objectively your
organization’s readiness to embark on a particular BI initiative. Our
experience and expertise in building world-class BI solutions helps
us help you identify the potential risks and issues before you commit
valuable time and resources to your initiative. Understanding these
risks early in the BI lifecycle can greatly enhance your likelihood of
success. This short-term, fixed-price offering allows you to realize
important benefits quickly, for relatively little risk or expense.
Our Implementation Assessment provides you with an evaluation
of a given BI project segment with regard to its initial objectives.
We evaluate the segment’s success in achieving the original
project objectives by measuring the level of accomplishment of
the defined deliverables. The identification of variances may reveal
deficiencies in a business process, technical architecture or overall
project management methodology.
The Implementation Assessment looks at three areas: business
functionality, technical performance, and project management
methodology. Each of these areas may be assessed on their own or
in combination with another area to provide feedback to project team
members, user communities, and management sponsors.
The Implementation Assessment serves to document project
experience that can be used as an example to improve subsequent
initiatives or additional releases. An Implementation Assessment
may be conducted immediately upon the completion of a given
release or for a mature system.
Discovery. Our BI Discovery service helps define the goals,
objectives, and scope of your BI initiative. This enables you to
decide on the technical approach to adopt as well as define and
prioritize each BI application release.
We work with your business users, technical staff, data owners and
project sponsors to define high-level initiative requirements and an
overall project plan based on your organization’s specific needs and
objectives.
Technology Evaluation. Our Technology Evaluation service is designed
to help you select the right tools or technology for your solution
architecture. We are a vendor-neutral solution provider with proven
experience and expertise in technology evaluation for BI solutions.
By working with Fujitsu Consulting when selecting the tools and
technology for your BI initiative, you will:
Make cost-effective decisions based on the specific requirements
of your BI solution
Achieve architectural synergy and be confident in the
compatibility and interoperability of the various
components of your BI solution
Be assured that all recommendations are based solely
on your needs and requirements, since we are vendor-neutral
Proof of Concept. This is a unique offering designed for customers
who are considering their first BI solution, or reworking or
expanding an existing application. The Proof of Concept offering
is a low-cost, quickly deployed means of demonstrating the value and
power of a BI solution. It is timeboxed to ensure scope
management, and minimizes risk and cost. This offering includes
analysis, design, and development of a functional, small-scale BI
solution using actual customer data. It delivers a fully functional,
reusable, extensible and scalable BI solution.
The Proof of Concept may be right for your organization if you:
Have tight financial constraints
Require turnaround in a short time frame
Have limited experience with Fujitsu Consulting
Need to prove business value, technological fit, or a
“quick win”
SolutionBuilder. Implementation and deployment represents a
significant portion of the overall effort required for any given BI
initiative. Our iterative SolutionBuilder methodology incorporates
best practices from our experience as a leading BI solution provider.
An iterative approach provides timely deployment throughout the
enterprise according to your business priorities. By partitioning the
implementation into smaller work packets, our team is able to
provide tangible business value in relatively short time frames. Risk
is minimized, while flexibility is maximized, through a more
manageable work effort.
The SolutionBuilder phase consists of four stages: (1) definition,
(2) design, (3) development, (4) deployment.
Enterprise Reporting. If your information needs are primarily
operational and require data from a single or only a few places, this
service lets you define and implement effective reporting processes
without building a data warehouse. Our extensive experience with
best-in-class reporting tools, and best practices around their
deployment and implementation, guarantees you will get the data
you need when you need it—fast.
Data Migration. BI initiatives require you to identify all of your
source systems, their owners, and the platforms on which they reside.
You need to know how your organization’s specific business rules
impact your plans for data movement, transformation, storage, and
access. Our Data Migration service helps successfully migrate the
data for your project. We use best-in-class processes and tools,
centered on a comprehensive metadata model for your data
migration. The metadata model is begun during the Discovery and
Planning phase of the data migration and built on throughout the
data migration lifecycle.
BI Organizer. In order to be successful, the development,
implementation, and ongoing life of a Data Warehouse requires many
adjustments to classic existing roles and creation of new specific
roles on both the user and IT sides. Metadata management (new)
and user support (adjusted) are two examples of that.
BI Organizer is intended to support clients in defining, customizing,
and implementing the most appropriate organizational structure in
order to handle every role and responsibility that needs to be taken
care of to maximize the value of your investment in BI. Best
practices templates are used to identify every role and responsibility
that have to be assumed and are mapped with the existing
organizational structure. A gap analysis is then prepared and an
adjusted structure is proposed taking into consideration the specifics
and constraints of your organization.
BI Sustainment. Fujitsu Consulting’s Application Sustainment
services allow you to proactively manage the changing BI business
requirements. Your data warehouse solution will be under constant
and increasing pressure to change from many different sources,
including: demands from your business users, external influences,
source system changes and infrastructure changes.
BI Sustainment delivers a comprehensive, end-to-end application
outsourcing solution to protect and evolve your BI investment, and to
continue empowering your knowledge workers to deliver the required
business results by integrating our Managed Services best practices
and experience with our BI expertise. Our management processes
ensure that the critical and complex elements of your BI solution are
effectively maintained to protect the security, quality and integrity of
the data warehouse. Our application management processes address
the unique aspects of BI sustainment such as: metadata
management, data quality, privacy requirements, and software tools
utilization and maintenance.
Benefits Monitoring. The benefits that are promised early on often fail
to materialize partially or completely. By applying our unique
Benefits Realization approach and Enterprise Value Management
experience to data warehousing, continuous ROI will be generated
from your Business Intelligence solution. This will guide the ongoing
sustainment and enhancement to ensure your solution stays fresh
and relevant to your changing business environment.
Bottom Line
Fujitsu Consulting brings a unique combination of technical and industry expertise to our clients for
transforming information into BI solutions. We maintain a business focus, independent of specific
technologies or platforms. We also bring our unique Benefits Realization approach to ensure that
the promised benefits of your BI solutions find their way to your bottom line.
We tailor our engagement approach to your needs, through:
Partnership/Co-sourcing—We work “elbow-to-elbow” with your staff
Knowledge Transfer/Mentoring—We are committed to making sure you have the required knowledge
and abilities to maintain the solutions we deliver
Consulting Support—We provide both consulting services and experienced practitioners to
deliver solutions
Outsourcing—We provide solution development and/or ongoing support through outsourcing
We are alliance rich, yet vendor-neutral, maintaining partnerships and alliances with numerous leading
vendors, and we are committed to remaining unbiased with regard to vendors, technologies and platforms.
By implementing Fujitsu Consulting’s BI solutions, you transform operational information into
meaningful, timely knowledge about customers, suppliers, internal operations and markets. Your
knowledge workers gain easy access to the information they need to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Headquarters & United States
333 Thornall Street
Edison, NJ 08837
United States
Tel: +1 732 549 4100
Fax: +1 732 549 2375
Canada
Simcoe Place
200 Front Street West
Suite 2300
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5V 3K2
Tel: +1 416 363 8661
Fax: +1 416 363 4739
Quebec
1000 Sherbrooke Street West
Suite 1400
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 3R2
Tel: +1 514 877 3301
Fax: +1 514 877 3351
www.fujitsu.com
Experience the Fujitsu Consulting Difference
A trusted provider of management and technology consulting to business and government, Fujitsu
Consulting is the North American consulting and services arm of the $44.5-billion Fujitsu group.
Fujitsu Consulting integrates the core expertise of the Fujitsu companies and its partners to deliver
complete business solutions in the areas of IT governance, information management, legacy systems
modernization and application outsourcing. Through its full range of consulting, implementation
and IT management services and its industry-recognized strategic approach, Macroscope
®
, Fujitsu
Consulting enables clients to build more value into their IT investments and drive their leadership in
the marketplace.
We work with you to create solutions and produce results that drive your business.
© 2005, Fujitsu Consulting, Inc. Macroscope is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Consulting (Canada) Inc. All rights reserved.
doc_812040552.pdf