Data Estate: 5-Week Assessment

In 5 to 8 short weeks, the data experts at Bridgeworks will work with you to understand your current state from a people, processes, and technology perspective and build out a strategic vision for an enterprise-grade data architecture, and a roadmap of the workloads, anticipated costs, and business value they provide. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge – designing a business-driven maintainable and extensible data estate on Microsoft Azure ensures we design for who you are, and where you are.

Benefits

Our clients typically realize the following benefits:

• Identify and prioritize critical success factors and business needs
• Inventory source systems and data assets that contain critical business data
• Understand your current and future needs related to people, processes, and technologies
• Define key business and technical processes and data flows
• Build a consensus across business and IT stakeholders on workload priorities, complexity, and budgeting
• Develop an enterprise-grade, secure, performant, and future-ready data architecture on Microsoft Azure that may include:
• Provide cost saving optimization and migration considerations

Deliverables

At the end of your assessment, your organization will receive the following deliverabes:

• User Personas
• Conceptual Architecture
• Findings and Recommendations
• Key Process and Data Flow Diagrams
• Prioritized Business Needs Backlog
• Data Estate Roadmap
• Executive Data Estate Strategy Presentation
• Next Step Schedule and Budget Forecast
• Optional Proof-of-Concept

Schedule

The assessment typically takes between 5 and 8 weeks depending on stakeholder availability and scope/options:

Discovery Phase - 2 Weeks

Understanding current state

• Interview key stakeholders
• Identify and Prioritization Requirements
• Inventory key source systems and applications
• Create current state conceptual architecture
• Document current state process flows

Strategy Phase - 2 Weeks

Identify gaps and design future state

• Analyze documentation, systems inventory and working session output
• Create personas
• Develop future state conceptual architecture
• Identify data consolidation, migration, and optimization strategies
• Document and prioritize backlog
• Identify People, Process, and Technology flows

Plan Phase - 1 Week

Create Actionable Roadmap and Plan

• Group backlog into projects
• Develop high-level cost and schedule estimates
• Create Data Estate Roadmap
• Review and finalize deliverables
• Detailed plan and cost estimates for next step
• Develop and Present Executive Summary

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