Build a Data Warehouse
Business insights come from both structured and unstructured data.
- Relational data warehouses, although reliable, centralized repositories for corporate data, were not built to handle the speed and volume of data and analytics today.
- IT is under immense pressure from business units to provide technology that will yield greater agility and insight.
- While some organizations are benefitting from modernization technologies, the majority of IT departments are unfamiliar with the technologies and have not yet defined clear use cases.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- The vast majority of your corporate data is not being properly leveraged. Modernize the data warehouse to get value from the 80% of unstructured data that goes unused.
- Avoid rip and replace. Develop a future state that complements your existing data warehouse with emerging technologies.
- Be flexible in your roadmap. Create an implementation roadmap that’s incremental and adapts to changing business priorities.
Impact and Result
- Establish both the business and IT perspectives of today’s data warehouse environment.
- Explore the art-of-the-possible. Don’t get stuck trying to gather technical requirements from business users who don’t know what they don’t know. Use Info-Tech’s interview guide to discuss the pains of the current environment, and more importantly, where stakeholders want to be in the future.
- Build an internal knowledgebase with respect to emerging technologies. The technology landscape is constantly shifting and often difficult for IT staff to keep track of. Use Info-Tech’s Data Warehouse Modernization Technology Education Deck to ensure that IT is able to appropriately match the right tools to the business’ use cases.
- Create a compelling business case to secure investment and support.
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Assess the current data warehouse environment
- Call 1: Discuss Info-Tech’s approach to modernization and the importance of business input
- Call 2: Review business user survey results and discuss how to define the current state from an IT perspective
Guided Implementation 2: Define modernization drivers
- Call 1: Review IT’s current state assessment and discuss conducting business user workshops/interviews
- Call 2: Review modernization ideas from the business; create approach for building internal IT knowledge for modernization technology
Guided Implementation 3: Create the modernization future state
- Call 1: Match modernization technologies to business ideas and discuss future state diagrams
- Call 2: Review finalized initiatives, discuss costs/benefits, and build modernization roadmap
Contributors
- Debora Bielecki, Partner, Bielecki & Associates
- Devon Wright, CEO, Turnstyle Solutions
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