Convergent’s BI HealthCheck is a structured and detailed technical review of the end-to-end BI Architecture Landscape, from the underlying systems infrastructure, the integration and management of data sources, the data warehouse environment, to the front-end analytics and business applications.

Why take a BI HealthCheck?

• Performance: Most data warehouse & BI implementations suffer from performance issues at some point in their lifecycle, as operational data volumes can increase substantially and modelling and end user requirements change. ETL bottlenecks are common place, as are slow query times, long reporting cycles and frustrated users.
• Scalability: Data warehouse or BI initiatives often need to plan for new business growth. Business analysts or regulatory compliance may suddenly dictate that data is modelled over 5 years rather than 12 months. Increases or changes in usage e.g. daily rather than weekly reporting may cripple system resources and response times. A BI HealthCheck is used to check for architectural bottlenecks and plan for business scalability.
• Data Quality Issues: Data quality issues can undermine the value and trust of any analytics and reporting application and put BI initiatives at risk. Poor information can lead to poor business and operational decisions, as well as risk of non-compliance.
• Risk Management: For projects about to go live, the BI HealthCheck provides an independent audit and detailed technical review, before costly issues occur in production and the project launch is deemed a failure.
• Stability & User Complaints: BI environments can be complex and costly - integration and stability issues can undermine end user adoption. If you’re environment is suffering from technical issues and end user complaints, the Convergent BI HealthCheck is the best step towards fixing it.
• Reduce Cost of Ownership: A BI HealthCheck can be used to optimise complex
  end-to-end system resources; and to assess and improve operational & business processes.

What do I get?
The key output from the review is a detailed BI HealthCheck report, which includes:

• Assessment: a statement of the systems state of health at a component level.
• Correction:  recommendations for immediate changes to address specific issues.
• Direction:  a road map detailing specific actions to address future challenges.