The Analytics Partners methodology for full life cycle deployments is a mix of our expertise with the provided utilities, industry knowledge, and applying our best practices, which we have developed with superior Data Warehouse methodologies and our customers. AP’s full life cycle deployment methodology is:

ASSESSMENT (Initiation): During the Assessment phase, AP creates a high-level roadmap of what and how to migrate your current environment into your new strategic vision. This roadmap also proposes new infrastructure, if required, efficient business processes, training and new functionality available to the end users. In addition, AP helps you start the project by identifying key stakeholders and end user participation in subsequent phases.

Discovery (Requirements Gathering): During the Requirements phase, AP details the roadmap, verifies the approach, gathers new requirements and reviews the requirements that have already been collected. AP will work with you to define management user and technical requirements using short Joint Application Design (JAD) workshops represented by the major operational and management reporting users. We will then prioritize user requirements and map them to data sources, subject areas and corresponding functions in order to determine the initial increment and development effort for a consolidated data source to be implemented.



DESIGN: The purpose of this phase is to understand and interpret the requirements that were gathered into a complete information and technical design. This design will be the roadmap for development to ensure the objective of automating loads into the “data mart” and report access. During the design, AP will assess existing data entry and gathering processes to identify bottlenecks and areas that need improvement. We will create detailed information and technical design for development of a single source of information and the design of delivering the reports and dashboards.

BUILD AND IMPLEMENT: The development of the “platform”, dashboards, and reports will take place in this phase. This process will include the finalized analysis / design and build of the reporting and analysis capability, the deployment of the technical environment for all BI modules, security integration, build out of subject areas with dimensions and metrics, dashboards, and the end user adoption plan. At the completion of this phase all environments will be set up and operational and testing will be ready to begin.

TEST AND VALIDATION: Validation is an important final step before performing a deployment. A thorough validation can identify possible security or access discrepancies, data inconsistencies, reporting errors, and fault tolerance load instances that occur as a result of migrating from one environment into a production environment. For each point of validation, AP will devise a test to prove the result of the deployment. We will identify the tools required to perform the test as well as identify any users, groups, folders, objects, and applications required for the test. Within this phase, AP will test the behavior of the system, create use cases, verify data accuracy, verify users/groups, documents/domains/universes and security and record the result of the test to ensure that the validation was successful.