BI best practices at Sogeti have identified distinct maturity levels for mapping organizational BI capabilities. The maturity level model helps companies identify their current position on the BI landscape and chart a roadmap for leveraging BI capabilities throughout their processes.
The 5 maturity levels of Business Intelligence and their distinct characteristics found in organizations are as under:
Improved business process integration & streamlining
Silo data structures
Departmental solutions
Integrating business view
Data Sharing
Timely access to data
Determining "single version of Truth"
Data consolidation
Information Integration
Data consolidation & integration
Business oriented data structures
Enterprise focused solutions
Multiple subject reporting
Developing standard business-oriented data model/metadata
Creating cross subject reporting
Supporting Enterprise view
Enterprise Integration
Standardization of business oriented data model
Closed loop analysis/Zero latency
Horizontal view of business
Highly reliable information
Creating "virtual" business views
Standardizing other company data
Information to support advanced analytics
E2E Integration
Virtualization of business
Industry-oriented data models
Intelligent, real-time network fabric
CRM, SCM, BSC and STP goals
Sogeti's BI practice helps organizations move up the BI maturity level and enhance their capabilities in scanning, analyzing and using critical data from disparate sources.
Mapping your organization on the BI maturity level:
Each maturity level exhibits distinct characteristics throughout an organization that reflect over its change areas (" levers of change "). Progress on information integration causes measurable changes in each of these helps organization move up the maturity model:
Focused, directed, integration to single business purpose
Takes cues from business vision for expected/necessary behavior
PROCESS
Mechanism in the execution of the business strategy
Action necessary to successfully execute business function
Proper alignment of business activity and supporting data
DATA
Logical and physical representation of business knowledge
Rudimentary component of business information
Instantiation
TECHNOLOGY
Tools to assist in the execution of the business strategy
Automation of business functions to accelerate the business process
BI Maturity Level matrix
An organization can have different levels of maturity in different areas of its business. By mapping different maturity levels for each of the change levers one can have a bird's eye view of the overall BI capability of the company.
Expert Business Intelligence tools from Sogeti help companies implement BI solutions in different areas of business and achieve an organization-wide integrated information management. For more information on how you can leverage your existing processes and structure to convert your raw data into Business Intelligence, contact us.
