Collecting data and reporting on it is not difficult. Collecting quality data and generating consistent and actionable business intelligence across an organization is a different story. Empowered with “good data,” powerful business intelligence tools, and the ability to leverage those tools an organization can transform its ability to make impactful decisions, confidently report to its constituents, and achieve its mission.
Data is often difficult to discover, access, and understand, but harnessing and analyzing data can drive better decisions, improve business operations, and unlock insights. We develop strategies to manage the data and standard processes to produce consistent data, which leads to creating systems that can be integrated and scalable.
Industry-standard best practices have matured significantly over the last few years and we believe they should be appropriately leveraged by clients whether it’s DMBOK, CMMI DMM, or DCAM. With centralized data warehouses and business intelligence tools we help our customers transform data into otherwise unattainable insights and consistent, quality organizational information.
Our experience includes:
- Strategy
- Data Lakes & Warehouses
- Business Intelligence
- Governance
- Data Integration
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (ML)
Data Strategy
A data strategy outlines your agency’s vision for managing data as an asset and how you will leverage data to fulfill your mission. As agencies work to do more with less, a data-focused business strategy is imperative. An effective data strategy aligns directly with the agency’s business strategy and operating model.
View Example Client ProfilesData Governance
Over time, data typically gets segmented within divisions, offices, or teams, but to harness data’s power it must be available across agency boundaries. Effective data governance provides oversight, ensures stakeholder collaboration, and facilitates cross-functional decisions for data subject areas. Agiliko brings proven methodologies and practices to establish or improve business-driven data governance capabilities that can unleash data across your agency – as appropriate with the right security considerations.
View Example Client ProfilesData Quality Programs
Data-based business decisions are only as good as the data itself. An effective data quality program requires multiple layers of discipline especially at “data creation” to ensure the data itself is complete, accurate, and timely. Agiliko can help you establish agency data quality programs to detect, assess, and cleanse defects so your data is “fit for purpose” and trusted in business decision-making.
View Example Client ProfilesBusiness Intelligence & Analytics
The ultimate user-perceived value of a data investment is getting the right information to the right person at key decision-making points. Transforming data into actionable information requires skills and experience with Business Intelligence tools and technology, but it also requires an understanding of an agency’s business processes, context, and culture. Agiliko has experience delivering custom BI solutions to clients that not only exceed users’ expectations but also enable transformative changes to business decision-making.
Agiliko leverages a maturity model that we lead our customers through maturing them from Descriptive Analytics that tells you what happened in the past to more robust analysis:
- Diagnostic Analytics helps you understand why something happened in the past.
- Predictive Analytics predicts what is most likely to happen in the future.
- Prescriptive Analytics recommends actions you can take to affect those outcomes.
Data Technology Platform & Architecture
Realization of data investments can be enabled or constrained by the technical architecture and platform implementation. Clearly understanding the current data requirements and anticipating future needs are the first steps to architecting and building a data platform. Establishing well-crafted standards and employing a technical platform (including technologies used for data distribution, transformation, storage, and integration with applications) to meet scope and performance requirements are equally important for long-term value. Agiliko can help you select and implement a data platform that successfully integrates, archives, and retains corporate data assets to support your agency’s mission.
Data Lakes & Warehouses
Leverage our experience designing, deploying, optimizing, and operating data warehouse & lake solutions across the technical spectrum starting from new to updating an existing data store. The unique skills required for data lake & warehouse projects are often underestimated or confused with skills applicable to traditional application development projects. Agiliko consultants are not just expert technologists – they are also seasoned data implementation specialists with the experience to blend those skills and deliver a quality solution.