DWH/BI Architecture: 4-week Assessment

Make sure you have a clear picture of how your DWH/BI architecture fits the needs of your organization. Explore your future options for pure on-premise, pure cloud and hybrid architectures and make informed decisions that work in medium-to-long term.

As the time passes, your data analytics needs evolve. Meanwhile, market offering in data analytics ecosystem develops - suppliers both create new solutions and review pricing for products that were created before.

After operating with a given DWH/BI architecture for a while, a company must a) assess whether the current technology stack is meeting current and upcoming business needs, and b) validate that the choices and changes that are being made are optimal for the future.

Business benefits from DWH/BI architecture audit:

• Deep analysis of the existing components, their strengths, drawbacks and future viability
• Future architecture scenarios, including on-premise and cloud components as well as their possible combinations
• Usability tradeoffs, limitations, costs and suitability of the architecture for the expected future data volumes and business requirements

Scandic Fusion will analyse your existing technology stack and architecture, collect feedback from technical and business users and conduct multiple workshops with stakeholders. As a result, we will provide a comprehensive assessment of the existing DWH/BI architecture, as well as its possible future development scenarios.

This assessment will look at the whole DWH/BI ecosystem in your company, but the primary focus will be the data analytics toolbox.

During the assessment we will evaluate the need and the path for getting started with Microsoft Azure (including recommending the proper target architecture on Azure Data Platform, if applicable).
Perhaps, you are wondering which components of the Azure Data Platform will be beneficial for your business? Or if it makes sense to switch from on-premise DWH database to Azure Synapse? Maybe you have a Power BI Reporting Server and you are thinking whether it is worth switching to Power BI Pro/Premium per user? Maybe you are considering the advantages of Power BI Premium vs a combination of Azure Analysis Services and Power BI Pro?

We are here to look at the options - taking into account your database technology, cloud vs on-premise preferences, technical and business challenges with the existing ecosystem as well as sensibility of going to the cloud (both for the database and for BI tool) specifically in your case. We will leverage our knowledge across multitude of technologies to provide you with actionable scenarios and target architectures, and give a comprehensive overview of the consequences of difference choices and directions.

Each technology assessment is tailored to customer needs and specifics. This Audit will strive to make you informed about the options and advise on the best possible way forward in your company’s data analytics journey, outlining the relevant architecture options using Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft data analysis products.