When it comes to executing the four cornerstones of your enterprise information strategy, the starting points and challenges vary depending on where you are on the maturity curve. Baseline tailors its services to your specific needs and challenges. We leverage your current resources and investments whenever possible. With Baseline, you have many options and entry points for mastering data.

Baseline’s services offerings include:

» Scorecard Services

» Business Intelligence (BI) Scorecard
» Data Quality Audit
» Master Data Management (MDM) Readiness Assessment

» Portfolio Services

» Business Discovery
» BI Application Portfolio
» Data Management Launch
» BI Business Case Development

» Design and Delivery Services

» Source Data Analysis
» Data Warehouse Build
» BI Application Delivery

» Organizational Alignment Services

» Data Governance
» Data Stewardship Blueprint
» BI Governance
» BI Outsourcing

» Best Practices Workshops

» Business Intelligence (BI) Best Practices
» Data Management Best Practices
» Information Center of Excellence Design
» Master Data Management (MDM) Executive Overview

Scorecard Services

How are we doing? How can we improve?

Scorecard Services compare your environment to a set of best practices categories from acknowledged industry leaders. This is often the place where companies first engage us. » Find out more

Scorecard Services include:

Business Intelligence (BI) Scorecard is a structured assessment of how your company’s current business intelligence and data warehouse deployments map to best practices of acknowledged leaders in your industry. » Find out more

Data Quality Audit uses a six-step process to diagnose your bad data, illustrate its impact on the business, and prescribe ways to fix it. This customized process serves as the foundation for data quality and identifies the needed organizational and cultural changes for continuous data improvement over time. » Find out more

Master Data Management (MDM) Readiness Assessment helps you understand the details involved with a master data management (MDM) – or customer data integration (CDI) – development activity before you invest in moving forward. Baseline helps you identify business problems that MDM and CDI can address and assess platform architecture, development methods, end user participation, data governance, data management, and production support. » Find out more

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Portfolio Services

Where do we start? What do we do next?

Portfolio Services validate a bona-fide business need, plan the roadmap, and prioritize execution in small, controlled projects. This group of services sets your company on the path to success. » Find out more

Portfolio Services include:

Business Discovery helps you establish that a valid business need exists for a business intelligence or data warehouse (BI/DW) initiative. It provides a structured way to inventory BI opportunities across various business functions, engage end users, and define scope in small, controlled projects. » Find out more

BI Application Portfolio develops high level business requirements for a pipeline of candidate applications for BI/DW development. Baseline works with you to assign a priority to each application using a weighted schema based on your company’s business objectives, application value, and development feasibility. » Find out more

Data Management Launch provides you with the tactics necessary to improve day-to-day data management as part of every new IT project effort. This service enables you to incorporate data management processes into the traditional IT systems development life cycle (SDLC), define job functions, and formalize data governance. » Find out more

BI Business Case Development delivers a rigorous financial assessment of the opportunities, technology costs, and incremental and ongoing resource requirements for development and maintenance of your BI business plan. » Find out more

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Design and Delivery Services

How do we execute? How do we get it right?

Design and Delivery Services provide you with Baseline’s know-how and skills to design, develop, and deploy a working data warehouse, BI applications, or data integration hub. These services function as your insurance policy for on-time, on-budget projects that result in high end-user adoption. » Find out more

Design and Delivery Services include:

Source Data Analysis provides you with a comprehensive profile and comparison of data on one or more key source systems. Baseline uses profiling tools and statistical measurement to give you a structured way to evaluate what data exists, its accuracy, and its relevance prior to the costly activity of acquiring it. » Find out more

Data Warehouse Build gives you a highly skilled team of Baseline professional consultants to design and build your data warehouse, or reengineer an existing one. Baseline brings a full complement of skills to your data warehouse engagement while preparing your internal team to own the development process and production environment in the long term. » Find out more

BI Application Delivery is a “pared down” version of Baseline’s Data Warehouse Build Service. It applies our proven development methods, experience, and skill sets, but concentrates exclusively on the deployment of the BI application. » Find out more

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Organizational Alignment Services

Who does what? How do we manage change? How do we recognize success?

Organizational Alignment Services help you formalize and implement all the managerial, process, and organizational responsibilities that surround data-enabled solutions. These services prepare your company for change leadership. » Find out more

Organizational Alignment Services include:

Data Governance provides a structured approach to designing and implementing a data governance framework that socializes the idea of managing data as an asset. We help you develop the top-down decision-making processes and oversight necessary to establish policies and practices for governing enterprise data. » Find out more

Data Stewardship Blueprint delivers an organizational framework, key roles, and responsibility description for the data steward job function. It also defines the “catalog of services” – a set of practices, processes, policies, and communications for one or more data stewards in your organization. » Find out more

BI Governance helps you implement a top-down framework to customize the four main components of good governance – guiding principles, decision-making bodies, decision areas, and oversight mechanisms – to fit your company’s unique needs and culture. » Find out more

BI Outsourcing offers a comprehensive plan to help you define the business intelligence or data warehouse (BI/DW) work to be outsourced, assess the risks of doing so, and follow through with a robust testing and measurement process to ensure that all tasks are executed according to your development standards. » Find out more

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Best Practices Workshops

What works? What are the emerging market trends?

Best Practices Workshops address the four cornerstones of a company’s information strategy – business analytics, data warehousing, data management, and data integration. Baseline workshops provide you with a learning foundation around domain knowledge and implementation techniques. » Find out more

Best Practices Workshops include:

Business Intelligence (BI) Best Practices Workshop provides a survey of lessons learned and a practical framework for applying best practices to your company. » Find out more

Data Management Best Practices Workshop is designed to broaden the prevailing perspective that data management is an IT issue. The workshop gets you off on the right foot to implement data management policies, roles, and metrics incrementally over time. » Find out more

Information Center of Excellence Design brings together key resources to design a centralized information management function for the shared corporate data asset. » Find out more

Master Data Management (MDM) Executive Overview introduces managers in both business and IT to the concepts of MDM and customer data integration (CDI) and lays out a going-forward framework. » Find out more

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