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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