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CarpeDatum specializes in helping customers gain actionable insight into their entire organization. Our suite of products and solutions enable our clients to monitor, analyze, and plan their businesses, as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.

Our suite of products and solutions enable our clients to monitor, analyze, and plan their businesses, as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.

TM1 QuickStart

The purchase of a Business Intelligence application can be an exciting moment in your organization. Although for most companies, once the software contract has been signed they inevitably find themselves spending a greater amount of time learning the software through trial and error development, and reading lengthy manuals.

While this process of implementation ultimately produces results, the results can come at a great cost. Lengthy implementations and improper application architecture, result in future development challenges that continue to add cost, while diminishing the business value of the application.

Why Use the TM1 QuickStart Program

The Cognos TM1 QuickStart program from CarpeDatum Consulting helps new Cognos customers achieve rapid return on investment. In as little as 3 weeks, we can create an application that incorporates your data and business requirements into a system that adds powerful decision support capabilities and financial analytics to your organization.

The program is intended to provide new customers with the following benefits at a low cost:

• Best practices application development from seasoned professionals.
• Timely development that leverages the CarpeDatum Consulting Tool Kit.
• Knowledge transfer to both the Business and Information Technology resources.
• Application architecture that ensures performance, allows for system expansion, and facilitates easy of future development and maintenance.
• Clearly defined development road map that encourages self sufficiency.
• Established relationship with a "go-to" consulting partner you can trust.
• The diagram below illustrates the overall architecture for the Quick Start Program, which is to be implemented in several phases.

Program Deliverables

Business Intelligence Assessment Report

The BI Assessment report is the envelope deliverable for all the written activities and deliverables in the Quick Start program. The document will contain the following information:

• Requirements Review
  • Project Purpose and Goal Statement
  • Data Requirements Analysis
  • Reporting Requirements Analysis
• Existing Process Review
• Source Data review for Dimensional Modeling
• Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities

Application Architecture Development

• Load Data into 1 – 2 Cubes
• Dimensions (5 – 8 Dimensions)
• Simple metrics (Rules)
• Basic Turbo Integrator Load Scripts

Development Road Map

Phased project plan for future developement

Future releases of the TM1 Quick Start program can be pre-configured for specialized applications, such as financial budgeting, planning and forecasting, supply planning, retail sales analysis, etc. These pre-configured systems can provide a blueprint of best practices that can be used to get started quickly.