Data Analytics Assessments
A proven process based on decades of experience assisting companies with their toughest data challenges
Establish a Strong, Scalable Data Analytics Foundation
Increasingly, business is moving at the speed of curiosity.
The ability to answer critical questions about what has happened, what is happening, and what may happen in the future is essential for remaining competitive.
Answers to these questions reside somewhere within the vast landscape of a company’s information sources. However, coaxing these insights into the light requires a rich, scalable foundation of integrated and reliable data.
Unfortunately, many companies don’t have a solid data foundation in place today, preventing them from getting the answers they need.
There are many obstacles to great insights
For example, maybe your company has some level of business intelligence and analytics capabilities today, but not one that is sufficiently comprehensive, reliable, or self-service enabled. Results may be incongruent and misunderstood; and data delivery may be untimely, disjointed, and non-interactive.
Perhaps you’re running full-speed ahead, embarking on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and predictive analytics initiatives—but you have run into unexpected roadblocks. As a result, these initiatives aren’t generating operable results, and you’re missing out on valuable opportunities.
Overcoming them can be overwhelming
To accommodate the explosive growth of data and the seemingly insatiable demand for analytics, your company must address these gaps and issues properly now—before they proliferate.
Taking on this process internally may seem overwhelming—and rightfully so. The sensitivity of your data, the complexity of your processes, and the diversity of your systems may make the prospect of outside assistance unrealistic…even risky.
After all, how could anyone from the outside know your business and its data better than you?
Let us be your trusted partner and guide
We get it…and genuinely understand the challenges you’re facing. We’ve been there. Day-to-day activities can sap your capacity and prevent you from pausing to take on a broader initiative like this.
However, by working closely with you—as your trusted partner—Lightwell can leverage over two decades of experience to help you build an optimal, customized data foundation.
Our Data Analytics Assessments have guided some of the world’s leading companies through some of their toughest data challenges while helping them build strong, scalable environments for high-performance analytics.
What you'll achieve through our Data Analytics Assessments
Gain a comprehensive understanding of your data, technologies, and processes
Receive valuable feedback from inside and outside your organization
Gain expert insight and thorough guidance for improving your capabilities
Achieve organizational alignment around your analytics-related initiatives
Receive a detailed data analytics roadmap to guide your actions going forward
Build a scalable foundation that’s optimized for accelerating your strategic initiatives
A proven process based on decades of experience
During our Data Analytics Assessment, our knowledgeable team performs a comprehensive, on-site review of your goals, processes, and technologies including:
- Your goals and vision
- Analytics use cases
- Technologies
- Processes
- People
- Organizational culture
- Effectiveness and outcomes
A comprehensive view of your data
Throughout the assessment, we develop and document a deep understanding of your data—what you have, what it means, how it’s collected, how and where it’s stored and organized, and how users leveraging it today.
We uncover where there are gaps, identify what needs are and aren’t being met, and explore where there are opportunities to get more value from your data. We’ll review your:
- Data collection tactics and processes
- Data preparation
- Data Lake pipelines
- Data Warehouse automation
- Data quality processes
- Data tool availability, configuration, and coordination
- Data governance processes
- Data curation flows
- DataOps
- Insights, dashboards, and reporting
- Analytics
- Data modeling approaches
- Data architecture
Ensuring your success
All of this valuable insight can be leveraged to realize and sharpen your analytics vision. We can develop a detailed roadmap that provides recommendations on where to go next.
We’ll approach this entire process with a tremendous amount of respect for you, your organization, and its data. We strive to share our insights and ideas while balancing them with your resource, budget, and time constraints.
Together, we’ll work diligently towards achieving exceptional value from your data given your unique needs, objectives, and goals.
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The Time is Now
There’s no better time than now to take the first step towards building an optimized data and analytics foundation.
Get in touch with us and let’s start a discussion on how our Assessments and Roadmaps can help your organization.
Contact us today and we’ll connect you with one of our experts.