Full-cycle BI implementation project

1. Discovery sessions, requirements gathering, interviews with key business users;

2. Based on the discovery preparation of commercial proposal including:

– Effort estimates;

– Project plan;

– Costs;

– Project team description;

– Risk assessment;

– Development of conceptual design (blue-print) of system, includes:

• BI-system requirements;

• Corporate data-warehouse architecture;

• Description of data sources, streams of loading of data from SAP ERP or other external systems;

• Data-sources definition, ETL processes defiinitions (SAP ERP-specific, or specific to other source systems);

• List of reports;

• Reports specification;

• List of assumptions and limitations;

3. SAP BI systems deployment (installation of system software, RDBMS) including DEV and QA systems;

4. Initial system configuration, integration with data sources;

5. Data-warehouse configuration in DEV system;

6. Transporting to QA system;

7. Functional testing together with business users, included into the project team;

8. Issues identified during functional ests are recorded and fixed;

9. Transport to production system;

10.Initial data loading into production system is performed;

11. Integrational testing is performed;

12. Business users are trained, user documentation is prepared;

13. Go-Life is conducted;

14. Post-production support.