BA Rationalization is the process of consolidating and standardizing point business analytics solutions, both formal and informal systems, into a small number of managed platforms thereby…

• lowering costs,
• decreasing time-to-information access,
• increasing accuracy and repeatability,
• ensuring one version of the truth in all metrics, and ultimately…
• improving the decision-making ability of the enterprise.

How can I tell if my organization might benefit from BA Rationalization?  Take this simple test:

• Do you have more than 5 Data Warehouse or Reporting Systems in your enterprise?
• Do you have more than 3 Business Intelligence toolsets deployed in your enterprise?
• Does answering a question that crosses multiple business functions require that you run reports or queries in multiple reporting systems and consolidate them by hand?
• Do you have multiple transaction systems that provide the same or similar information feeds to multiple reporting systems?
• Can you run a report in your environment that generates two different answers to the same question?
• Do you spend more time gathering the data to answer a business question than you spend analyzing the data to get the answer?
• When you ask a question about “customers” are you told that the answer “depends on what you call a customer”? (substitute any other business concept for “customers” above)

If you answered “yes” to at least 2 these questions, your enterprise might be a candidate for a BA Rationalization project.  If you answered “yes” to 4 or more, your enterprise is definitely a candidate for a BA Rationalization project.

Contact Rich at rich@chesterba.com or (585) 261-0439 to discuss your specific situation and see if a Rationalization project is right for you.