There is a growing realization among business leaders that they have too much data and not enough information. After spending the 1990’s investing heavily in new core software systems most businesses’ key processes are automated and running fairly smoothly. But most managers still tell us decisions are generally based on “gut-feel” not data and facts. When you look at the most successful companies in various industries you see one common element – a great ability to harvest minute by minute transactions and transform that data into wise decisions.

The Rainmaker Group Data Utilization Assessment™ provides an objective appraisal of how effectively your organization transforms data into meaningful and actionable information. Our exclusive instrument consists of a 73 question web based survey completed by the senior manager of finance, sales, operations, and technology. The results are scored along 9 dimensions which provide a clear picture of current effectiveness, and a roadmap for future improvement. Understand how your organization is positioned for business intelligence and data warehousing.

 
• How reliable is the quality of the data in your reports?
• Are you managing your business in Excel?
• Are there one or two questions which if answered, could improve your operations by 5%?
• Are you making decisions based on gut-feel or quantitative data?
 
The Data Utilization Assessment™ evaluates your organizations business intelligence along 9 critical dimensions. Your performance for each dimension is compared to the normally observed development range (below in green) for similar companies from our research.

Business Intelligence and data warehousing are powerful tools for optimizing the performance of an organization. Especially with the addition of an OLAP tool like ProClarity for visualization.