Business Intelligence Consulting

As one of the leading systems integrators, ISC knows what it takes to make BI work for your business, especially with the focus on intelligent business for your e-business strategy. Today, ISC has wrapped that experience into specific business focused consulting components that address the full range of needs, from developing a clear BI strategy to delivering a proven solution.

Whether you need experienced consultants through the entire business intelligence process, or just at critical junctures, ISC can help. To better illustrate how ISC's consulting components complete the big picture, we've highlighted each of our key components below. In addition to the various components outlined below, ISC offers the full data warehouse development consulting services. ISC's consultants help you implement a iterative data warehouse that includes detailed data models, data cleansing, populating the warehouse, query and reporting facilities, and other key important steps.

Strategy
A consulting service that provides the help and guidance needed to understand the business problems and issues being faced. This includes complete problem and solution definitions, impact analysis, cost/benefit analysis and high-level planning.

Assessment
This comprehensive assessment provides business, data and technology consulting to either define or verify a specific project scope within a line of business, business drivers, strategy, appropriateness of technology and staff, and the Business Intelligence life cycle integration. The overall direction of this offering is to do gap analysis in every critical area of the business and provide options and prioritization for moving forward toward developing the next iteration of the business solution. In addition, our BluePrint solution focuses on reducing the risk associated with large projects like data warehouses by rapidly validating the data warehouse design, identifying which products need to be integrated into the warehouse, the cost and effort required to develop the warehouse, and other concerns.

Transformation & Cleansing
This comprehensive component is geared to simplify the effort of extracting, moving, merging, cleaning, transforming and loading data from multiple sources into one reliable, trustworthy, dependable central store. This could often be the most intensive exercise in any warehouse development. This engagement couples specialized skills and leading-edge technology to in determining the scope and performing the tasks necessary to accomplish this critical step in the overall data warehouse solution.

ERP BI Solution
This component offers consulting services that help in unleashing the power of the information assets in your ERP system. We extend the data beyond operational, through, tools, techniques and end-user participation, to bring to life the analysis of the data. The overall focus is on delivering business content through an integrated solution that leverages the knowledge of the ERP implementation specialists. Our unique approach offers a release independent solution.

Implementation
The objective of this component is to provide the rapid development of a scalable data warehouse iteration that will be used for the management of enterprise information and decision support in an environment that will be the keystone for the development of an enterprise data warehouse. Quick Strike is designed to accelerate the implementation of a Business Intelligence environment and to reduce risks. This service offering is driven by our Business Intelligence framework which leverages concurrent engineering and iterative application development. This key component comes in two approaches: a working iteration or a proof-of-concept.

• The working iteration engagment delivers a data analysis solution to a specific problem, built on quality information and featuring easy-to-use tools. Deliverables will include data models, a populated database, a data mart, a front end application (EIS/OLAP), user training and more.
• The Proof-of-Concept presents a quick demonstration of the business intelligence solution, both in its appearance to the end-user and the benefits it delivers to your company. You'll receive sample reports, sample queries, a working prototype and more.

Impact Solutions Consulting can give you confidence in your Business Intelligence systems. Contact us at (770) 795-9525, or email us at sales@impactsc.com and let us show you how to make your BI investment give you the results you demand.