The global IT consulting firm offers offshore development and the
project was for a large Fortune 500 manufacturing company
The consulting firm uses its extensive sales force to market its
IT consulting services and won the bid for the manufacturing company's
Business Intelligence (BI) project
The company is a large, established global manufacturing company
with a unique products and manufacturing process
Key Issues
There was an urgent need to supply data warehousing and business
intelligence expertise and best practices to the company
The IT consulting firm lacked the necessary experience for
conducting a business intelligence project
The company was extremely dissatisfied with the consulting firm's lack of knowledge and
competency of the subject matter as issues and problems began to pile up with no resolution in sight.
Results
InterAxiom worked with the consulting firm and taught their team (which included their
offshore development team from India) the fundamentals and
best-practices for data warehousing and business intelligence
Created an effective strategy
and architecture to meet the objectives of the BI project
A development methodology was forwarded to help resource
allocation and the system development lifecycle
Requirements were effectively captured and documented requirements that drove the design of the
appropriate data model
As a result, outstanding issues were resolved, an effective data model
for the new releases was designed and architected, and the client was poised to facilitate the implementation of a new
BI system