BI Strategy and Roadmap Exercise De-Risked BI Investments by Channelizing Them in The Right Direction

 

The client is a holding company that focuses on purchasing, leasing, and resale of marine cargo containers. It is one of the world’s largest intermodal container lessors with more than 4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in its owned and managed fleet. It also leads the resale industry, having secured the status as one of the largest sellers of used containers with over 1,000 clients purchasing more than 130,000 units annually from it. 

 

Background

To meet its analytical reporting needs in a manner that would reduce traditional dependence on IT, the client had embarked upon a Business Intelligence (BI) initiative. To provide a definitive goal and direction to this initiative, it decided to carry out a BI Strategy and Roadmap exercise. 

 

Solution

Dilytics carried out the BI Strategy and Roadmap exercise over a period of 6 weeks. This included: 

  • Interviewing Business users and representatives from functions such as Finance, Billing, Leasing Operations and Repair
  • Interviewing IT team including application owners for JD Edwards and custom solutions
  • Documenting and reviewing the client’s overall business and BI strategy
  • Capturing high-level business requirements from business and IT users
  • Identifying and documenting key elements – objects to be analyzed, KPIs and metrics of interest, reports and dashboard requirements, sources of data, data and object security needs – for developing BI strategy
  • Recommending BI strategyProviding a 3-phase roadmap for implementation of the recommended BI strategy.

 

Business Benefits

  • Make informed decisions with respect to steering its BI investments in the right direction
  • Save time and reduce the risk of failure of its BI program by thinking through it in advance

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