Cognos 8 BI opens up exciting new approaches to enterprise reporting and analysis, which Saphere can help you achieve if you are currently running  Saphere Series 7.

The Saphere BI Migration Rapid Assessment Service couples our knowledge of migration with a targeted examination of your environment. By applying proven practices, we can help you identify the right migration strategy and recommended
approaches.

An initial session will be conducted to identify resources, understand migration objectives, set expectations, and scope and collect documentation. We will work with
key stakeholders to:

• Understand your current reporting environment
• Determine and understand the migration objectives
• Obtain and prioritize a list of migration objects involved in the project
• Deliver an upgrade proposal identifying key areas to be considered

Following the session, we will undertake an exercise to provide an inventory of your current Saphere Series 7 environment. This will include an assessment of the existing infrastructure, architecture, performance and capacity, and data migration objects (e.g., metadata definition and structures, as well as report functionality, volumes).

Based on the information gathered, we will identify options to achieve your business objectives in Cognos 8 BI.

The Data Cleansing service offered by Saphere is designed to ensure that we understand your specific requirements and deliver high quality data that exactly meets to your needs.

In addition to the technical cleansing service that we perform, for continuity within the data cleansing service, we focus on raising the awareness of data quality and information integrity within the organisation in order to:

      
•    Make data fit for business use

•    Deliver trusted data for confidence in business decision-making

•    Quantify and unleash the value of our clients' data assets

•    Break the perpetually wasteful cycle of data correction and corruption

•    Provide data quality solutions which prevent the root causes of data defects

•    Develop sustainable relationships which deliver value for our clients and ourselves

The Saphere Rapid-Implementation Service is designed to guide the agreement, alignment and communication of key metrics for a targeted business intelligence strategy being implemented by your management team. This service enables your team to identify and understand how different metrics affect your operations and goals within your company’s business intelligence strategy.

The Saphere Rapid-Implementation Service delivers two key plans to:-

Operational Pilot plan

A plan that allows you to pin-point the key deliverables in the project, such as an accurate business intelligence strategy map and access to a functional software scorecard that manages the project roadmap.

The scorecard will show your team current views of enterprise health and pain points. We build scorecards and metrics, load actuals, targets, and thresholds that already exist so your team can see a strategic picture of your organization.

A Go-forward plan

A plan that looks at the metrics and reports you are using today and present a detailed assessment that helps you consider how scorecarding can best leverage your existing BI infrastructure. We offer recommendations about how to automate the links to your data, and help you define standard practices.

Saphere’s team of accredited and highly experienced consultants have created many business intelligence management systems, and have partnered with Cognos direct on many projects as a trouble-shooter. The team boasts a wide variety of experiencve acreoss many platforms, databases, operating systems, production applications and network protocols.