Data platform and Power BI Center of Excellence: 6 week implementation

Ready to transform your approach to Data platform and Power BI and unlock its full potential? Imagine a future where data is your most powerful asset, and decision-making is effectively driven by insights. A robust data platform is essential for organizations to stay competitive. This service is designed to help you harness the full potential of your data, ensuring it is accurate, accessible, and actionable. Make this a reality with our Data platform and Power BI Center of Excellence implementation.

A Center of Excellence (CoE) is a specialized team that provides guidance, and expertise on specific subject matters. As the designated Microsoft solutions partner for Business Applications and Data & AI, we are recognized for our expertise in implementing Business Intelligence and data analytics solutions. Advaiya’s Data platform and Power BI Center of Excellence (CoE) offers enterprise-class best practices and governance for the self-service era.

Our comprehensive 6-week implementation is designed to establish best practices, policies, and processes to ensure the health and success of your Power BI deployment across the enterprise.

Why Implement a Center of Excellence?

• Leverage learnings: Benefit from insights and methodologies derived from dozens of successful implementations.
• Governed self-service: Achieve a balance of productivity and stability by implementing governed self-service models.
• Platform health: Learn how to maintain a healthy and sustainable Power BI platform.

Implementation Agenda

Week 1-2: Needs assessment and goal setting

• Kick off meeting with CoE stakeholders
• Interview with stakeholders to understand vision, strategy and specific pain points
• Discussion with IT for infrastructure and application understanding
• Data discovery workshop

Week 3-4: Building the foundation

Over the course our Microsoft certified engineers will collaborate closely with your team to create policies, procedures and process for –

• Data sources and data dictionary
• Data integration areas
• Data storage and transformation
• Building analytical models
• Report creation workflow
• Lifecycle management
• Report modification procedures
• Ownership and approval processes
• Data governance
• Dataset deployment and distribution
• Report development policies
• Data security measures
• Certified datasets
• Data warehousing policies and procedures
• ETL (extract, transform, load) policies and procedures
• Data access policies
• Data dictionary
• Aligning with organizational strategic goals and initiatives

Week 5-6: Review and action plan

• Present findings, current state and future roadmap consisting of various projects.
• Agree action plan for further work.
• Finalize key initiatives and projects which can be immediately start
• Submitting a plan to address identified gaps and enhance CoE effectiveness.
• Setup six-month check in review session with Advaiya.

Benefits:

• Empower your organization to make data-driven decisions confidently.
• Equip team members to independently utilize and benefit from BI and data platform.
• Ensure consistent data governance and compliance.
• Enhance data literacy across the organization, maximizing Power BI's potential.

Pricing:

The six-week implementation costs $18,000. This price may vary depending on the customer's specific requirements. Continued/after implementation services will incur extra charges that are not included in the implementation cost.

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