Business Intelligence

Your organization needs to make quick, strategic business decisions. You need to target customers accurately. You need to respond to fast-changing market conditions. But how do you satisfy these ever-changing fast-paced needs? The short answer—accurate and timely information. The best answer—a true Business Intelligence Solution.

Lyons Consulting Group (LCG) delivers the kind of critical data that lets you make better, more informed decisions, but also the type of information that lets you chart the course of your organization, and helps you raise productivity and profitability—today, tomorrow, and into the future. Every day, your business creates more data – data that needs to be organized and transformed into accessible, useful information to help you anticipate trends, create new products, and improve customer service.

Lyons Consulting Group is dedicated to helping you know more about your business via integrated Business Intelligence solutions. LCG client teams specialize in:

The Business Intelligence Factory
This LCG framework for managing information offers you a proven way to organize information systems. Information architecture, legacy systems, data warehouses, data marts, and the Internet all work together to meet real business needs. Traditional factories start with raw materials and produce finished goods. Your Business Intelligence Factory takes in raw data (via data slices), processes it, and turns it into information and knowledge.

Other Services: Evolve with You
Our Business Intelligence Solutions offerings continue to expand to meet the evolving needs of our customers. We have developed new services that leverage the potential and power of the Internet. And we continue to grow with our customers’ requirements—adding capabilities in Customer Data Integration, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Executive Dashboards, CRM, Data Mining and Open Source BI, all of which are supported through key technology vendor partnerships. This constant growth ensures that we can continue to meet your needs far into the future.

Business Intelligence Solution Offerings

- Business Intelligence Blueprints

- Software Evaluations

- Data Warehouse/Data Marts

- Master Data Management

- Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

- Executive Dashboards

Six things to consider prior to your BI initiative:

1:	Start Small/Plan Big: A major reason why many BI projects fail is because of scope. BI roadmaps will help you define the future of your warehouse 3 to 5 phases into the future; implement small and strategic and start with areas that could stand to benefit most.
2:	Readiness: Is your organization ready to use a Business Intelligence solution? Do you have executive sponsorship? Have you secured commitments from your key stakeholders? Do they have the time and are they ready to support this initiative through completion?
3:	Planning: Use the 80/20 rule in this case – spend 80% of your time planning your next BI initiative and 20% of your time implementing it. Do you have a good plan in place for managing a BI project?
4:	Analysis: Understanding the business, its goals and processes is key. Do you have solid business analysis support for this initiative? Do you know who will be responsible for using the information derived from your BI initiative?
5:	Data Stewardship: This involves defining the roles that business and IT play in the ownership and management of your data. Data has both technical accuracy and semantic meaning. IT owns technical accuracy as it is moved out of your operational systems. The most successful warehouses have business ownership and involvement in the semantic accuracy of the data. Have you identified who would participate in these processes within your organization?
6:	The A-Ha Business Intelligence Moment: Most successful warehouses deliver insight into your business that is news to the organization. Have you architected your warehouse to respond to those new insights?

How We Do It: 30 | 60 | 90
To reduce risk and the time-to-value for your projects, LCG uses a unique 30|60|90 delivery framework. This approach delivers low-risk, high-value implementation milestones every 30 days throughout the life of your project, keeping you in the know and your project on track to succeed.

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