Data and Analytics Strategy Vision and Governance

This interactive engagement offers specialized data expertise and thought leadership, to leverage Microsoft technologies to help our clients establish a resilient data foundation, understand data requirements, and build a roadmap to your data solution using Microsoft Azure Data Stack, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric. Our approach includes the following key steps:

1. Establish Data-Driven Decision Making: We work with you to understand how your organizational data can enable you to be a data-informed decision maker, accomplish your top business priorities and achieve your vision. This includes:

• Understanding your strategic Data & AI priorities
• Identifying related issues and risks with Microsoft's security and governance tools
• Conducting a maturity assessment to capture current state and desired future state
• Evaluating expected benefits and cost savings over time.
• Understand your technology preferences and/or requirements (if necessary), particularly in Microsoft's Azure and data platforms.

2. Analyze Data Lifecycle and Alignment to Business Goals: We analyze how your data is created, sourced, updated, consumed, and retained by analyzing all relevant and available data and mapping them to business goals and objectives. Our approach includes:

• Defining source data schemas and data definitions.
• Capturing how data generation processes and frequencies
• Outlining data management processes and operating model including ownership, versioning, consistency, duplication, access control, and more.

3. Defining Future State and Data Program Vision: We help you define the future state of your enterprise with a Microsoft-driven data program that drives digital transformation and fosters data adoption. This phase includes:

• Capturing data gaps across the organization based on feedback
• Identifying a list of governing artifacts required (policies, guidelines, and processes) based on gaps & risks.
• Defining a high-level operating/stewardship model hypothesis, leveraging Azure Data Management services
• Formulating a data architecture and technology architecture hypothesis.

4. Deliver Recommendations and Roadmap: We provide a comprehensive set of recommendations, supporting artifacts, and a tangible roadmap, including:

• Developing an inventory of near-term, mid-term, and long-term initiatives
• Defining, prioritizing, and sequencing initiatives into a phased and timed roadmap
• Identifying additional priorities and use cases for piloting data governance processes and tools using Microsoft's comprehensive data solutions
• Conducting an executive debrief session for closure and report-out

This structured approach ensures that your organization is positioned for success in data transformation, empowering informed decision making and driving strategic business outcomes through the power of Microsoft Azure and data platforms. As a distinguished service provider, and nimble in our approach, we excel in guiding our clients through the Digital and Data Transformation journey, fostering enduring partnerships through our comprehensive advisory, professional services, and managed services offerings.