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Simpson Associates’ Modern Data Analytics Assessment

Our Modern Data Analytics Assessment focuses on how a data strategy and data platform can enable your business to reach its corporate goals. We look at where you are now on your data journey, where you want to be, and most importantly, a roadmap to get you there.

What is the Modern Data Analytics Assessment?

Perfect for an organisation not currently cloud enabled, having challenges with their current data analytics platform, or who don’t have a data platform in place. The Modern Data Analytics Assessment helps businesses to define a data modernisation roadmap – helping you to get the most out of your data.

Do you find yourself with multiple versions of the truth? Relying on manually created reports? Spending excessive time and effort on manual data processing? Alternatively, is your current data analytics solution slow or inefficient, and not keeping up with user demand?

It can be hard to break the cycle with inadequacies like these, but with the Modern Data Analytics Assessment, the path will become much clearer. It will enable you to understand best practices around developing a data analytics platform, and appreciate the art of the possible.

Through a detailed assessment of strategic objectives, technical requirements, processes and capabilities, we can help define the current state of your data, as well as a strategy for your data modernisation and a roadmap on how to get there. Throughout this assessment, we will focus on your corporate goals, alongside cloud technologies, to ensure the roadmap you receive fits your business purposes.

Benefits of the Modern Data Analytics Assessment

Receive an objective assessment of your current data analytics strategies, technologies, and maturity

Benefit from clear recommendations to facilitate a successful and controlled data cloud migration

Quicker access to information and reporting

Receive a high-level technical blueprint for your Azure and/or Power BI data platform

Improved data that you can trust!

Gaining a clear vision of the future state of your data

Ensure your roadmap is aligned with your corporate, technological and data goals.

Better data management and improved governance

Develop best practices and improve the confidence, accuracy and reliability of your data.

Ability to focus more on corporate goals

Modernise your data analytics to be a tool for organisational growth.

Removal of manual data process to increase efficiency

Redistribute resources from manual data processing activities to deliver analytics or more impactful work

This Modern Data Analytics Assessment can significantly improve how your organisation leverages data to drive better decision-making, increase efficiency, and achieve its strategic goals.

Helping your business understand the complexities of adopting cloud data services, by providing you with all the information you need to take the next step. It adds value if you are just at the beginning of your data analytics journey, have a legacy data warehouse solution or are not getting the expected value from the current data analytics solution that you have in place.

The data analytics assessment typically requires a moderate time commitment from your team. We collaborate closely with you to define the scope and deliverables, ensuring the process aligns with your available resources and timelines.

The assessment will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of your current data landscape, including:

A clear roadmap: We’ll outline a step-by-step plan to guide your data journey.

Options for improvement: We’ll explore potential solutions and their associated benefits.

Skills and resources required: We’ll identify the necessary expertise and resources to implement your chosen path.

Cost considerations: We’ll provide an estimate of the anticipated costs involved.

Modern Data Analytics Assessment deliverables: What you get

Understand

During this phase we concentrate on understanding your organisation by reviewing the current state and assess any technical analytical applications that are in scope.  We have developed our unique Data Maturity Assessment Tool, and this will be used to gain a full understanding of the maturity of the use of data across the organisation.  We spend time understanding the business needs and goals and how data is expected to be used.  Finally, we conduct a skills assessment of the organisation. 

Educate

This phase concentrates on educating the organisation on the possibilities of using Azure Data Services and exploring possible architectures to support potential use of the Azure Data Platform.  

Define

In this phase, we define the essential components for a successful Modern Data Analytics Assessment, including setting clear objectives and identifying critical data sources. We outline the data governance framework, establish data quality standards, and define security protocols. Using our Data Maturity Assessment Tool, we ensure the architecture supports advanced data analytics solutions. This foundation aligns your data strategy with business goals and prepares for effective use of Azure Data Services in the next phase.

Outcomes

We will provide all the information you need to move to the next stage of your data journey. The output document will provide a clear picture of the options, the expected benefits, the skills required, the anticipated costs and most importantly a roadmap to get you there.

The opportunity to bring together information and data onto a single data platform is revolutionary.

Kate ThackerDetective Chief Superintendent

Simpson Associates demonstrated that they were true experts in the field; within a few weeks they had a solid understanding of our business requirements and turned around an initial solution within an astonishingly quick timescale. From delivering the budget within a tight timeframe to supporting our learning and development, Simpson Associates has allowed us to become genuinely self-sufficient, sharing their knowledge and expertise at every step of our journey.

Gillian TroupGroup Financial Controller

Simpson Associates provided us with the expertise to see us through the design and the implementation phases and potential problems that we hit and got us through those. But they also understood our needs as a charity, the components that make up our data warehouse come partly from Microsoft, partly from other companies like Civica and Simpson Associates provided the glue to help us bring those together and get the best out of them.

Jon FoxAssociate Director of IT

Simpson Associates was dedicated to matching our brief, There was healthy debate of course but they always presented reasoned responses, or accommodated our wishes when needed. It’s a very flexible relationship and the synergy we’ve built is vital to the knowledge transfer process.

Neil Spreadbury Commercial Finance Officer
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Why Simpson Associates can help customers on their data modernisation journey as a Microsoft Partner

Simpson Associates is a Microsoft Partner with over 30 years of data experience. We have the expertise to help everyone get the most out of Microsoft technologies.

Next Steps

To learn more about getting started with the Simpson Associates Modern Data Analytics Assessment, contact us today!

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