Why Baseline

Delivering a Superior Consulting Experience

When you work with Baseline consultants, you team with highly qualified professionals who bring context to the engagement – insight and know-how relevant to the interconnections of business strategy, processes, people, data, and technology. This insight enables our consultants to ask the right questions, paint the big picture, determine an action plan, and instill new skills and expertise among your staff.

Since 1991, Baseline has built an unparalleled reputation helping companies master data across a variety of industries, and business applications. Our consultants are equipped with business knowledge and highly specialized data and technical skills.

Our Core Principles
In providing both advisory and implementation services, Baseline applies a handful of core principles to every engagement:

Business-driven
We align strategic business objectives and technology implementation. We start with the end users and give them joint accountability with IT. Our industry leading requirements gathering process drives project direction and technology selection.

Business and IT alignment
We instill balance between business needs for flexibility and innovation and IT needs for standards and efficiency.

Practical and actionable recommendations
We generate a top-to-bottom understanding of program goals. We outline a strategic roadmap and deliver in small, controlled projects using rapid, iterative development methods.

Tailored business, data, and technical solutions
We customize our recommendations to take advantage of your existing investments and infrastructure whenever possible. The Baseline approach embraces unique corporate cultures and incumbent skill sets. We are vendor neutral and do not resell hardware or software.

Success measurement
We build measures into every engagement to define success and evaluate results.

The Baseline Commitment: Your Self-Sufficiency
Our commitment to our clients is self-sufficiency after we leave. Baseline leaves behind the processes and client-specific steps necessary to design, deliver, and manage data as a corporate asset. Baseline ensures the knowledge transfer that propels our clients forward and helps them master data.

To request more information, contact us via e-mail or call us at 1-818-906-7638.
 

May 20, 2008. TechTarget Seminar, New York City. Master Data Management for the Enterprise with Jill Dyché and Evan Levy.

May 29, 2008. TechTarget Seminar,Washington, DC. Master Data Management for the Enterprise with Jill Dyché and Evan Levy.

August 17-22, 2008. TDWI Conference, San Diego. BI from Both Sides with Jill Dyché.

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid The Baseline on MDM: Five Levels of Maturity for Master Data Management.
Jill Dyché and Evan Levy offer an MDM taxonomy that separates and describes discrete capabilities, helping you understand your company’s “as is” environment to help you accelerate toward your “to be” objectives for master data.
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A Data Governance Manifesto: Designing and Deploying Sustainable Data Governance.
Jill Dyché details the importance of establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide agenda for data and shares practical steps for getting started.
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Eight Steps to Align Business and IT.
Learn the Baseline approach and understand how alignment can be formalized into planning business intelligence initiatives, application development projects and data integration programs by allowing companies to align responsibility and accountability along the hemispheres of Business and IT.
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