business intelligence

Our Business Intelligence practice area service offerings include:

• Planning and Execution

• Information Management

• Reporting and Analytics

So what sets us apart from our competitors in the area of Business Intelligence?

1. Our approach is strategy-focused and business-centric.
2. Our methods are process-oriented and requirements-driven.
3. And our delivery is agile, iterative and flexible.


SDLC Partners consultants offer a wealth of strategy, design and implementation experience that spans industry, application and size. Effective decision-making requires right information. And our BI Value Chain™ offers a series of business principles that, when properly linked, enable our clients to harness the power of this right information to create and maximize value.

How? By engaging executives to help them identify the business drivers they really care about. By enabling decision-makers to actively monitor those drivers. And by empowering decision-makers to act on those drivers to create and maximize value.

Publications

Business Intelligence Practice Director, Greg Steffine, authored a series of eight articles for TEQ Magazine - "an award-winning publication distributed by the Pittsburgh Technology Council".

Sell More, Spend Less, and Work Smarter Every organization today faces the challenging mandate of competing more effectively.  "Sell more, spend less" is the new business edict, and the process of "working smarter" is more important now than ever before.  Read more

The Business Intelligence Value Chain Creating value is taking what you know and turning it into action in order to achieve a desired outcome.  But it doesn't have to be by chance.  Value creation is the result of purposeful, well-thought-out decisions made possible by a decision support hierarchy I call the BI value Chain.  Read more

The Struggle to Get BI Right Centers on the Broken BI Value Chain  Twenty-one years after Gartner Research Fellow Howard Dresner coined the term “business intelligence,” too many organizations and the decision-makers who run them still struggle to get BI right.  Read more

The Right Thinking Model: Your Key to Builiding BI Requirements That Work Today, too many business leaders struggle to create value because right information is either limited or missing entirely from the decision-making process. Their BI Value Chains are broken, and poor requirements are to blame. Read more

Creating Value Starts with Strategic Thinking  Thane Yost once wrote, "The will to win is useless if you don’t have the will to prepare.” Strategy is all about preparation. It’s the cornerstone of an effective and sustainable business intelligence (BI) competency and a mission-critical piece of your requirements-gathering effort.  Read more