Overview of Beetra\'s Business Intelligence Practice

1. Business Intelligence Practice
Overview
(A Division of Beetra Electronics)
P.O.Box. 220679, Riyadh 11311,
Saudi Arabia
Contact : Sajid Pathan
Principal Consultant
Cell Phone : +966-50 068 1074

2. Overview of BI Practice
Beetra Consultancy Services based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is a joint venture with
Business Analytics Consulting Group (BACG), India, to offer BI/DW services to the
clients in the Middle East region
Our vision - become the leading provider of Business Intelligence and Data
Warehousing consulting services in the region
Our mission - help customers maximize the ROI from their Business Intelligence
initiatives
Our consultants have over fifteen years of experience in BI/DW and project
management, having worked on over 50+ successful BI/DW projects in various
industry verticals
Small firm Advantages, big firm Experiences
We facilitate the customers by offering the following services:
Advisory
Implementation
Education and Training

3. Advisory Services
Our extensive experience allows us to provide advisory services that
maximize the success of the clients BI/DW project
We will assess the viability of the clients project regardless of where it is
in the project lifecycle
We then recommend improvements, take corrective actions if called for
In the long-run, help increase the return on investment from the clients
BI/DW projects
Our Advisory Services include:
1. BI and DW Readiness Assessment
2. BI and DW Project Assessment
3. Fitness-to-purpose Evaluation
4. Solution Architecture
5. Data Quality Assessment
6. BI System/Project Audit

4. Advisory Services
1. BI / DW Readiness Assessment
The Readiness Assessment approach examines the following critical areas:
Business Needs Assessment
Organisational Assessment
Information Architecture Assessment
Technical Architecture Assessment
Project Planning and Methodology Assessment
2. BI and DW Project Assessment
Our BI/DW assessment will examine the project along the following dimensions:
Business / Organisation / IT
Project Plan
Integration/ Processes / Quality
Data / Metadata
Deliverables

5. Advisory Services
3. Fitness-to-purpose Evaluation
Identify the right technology tools to meet the business challenges keeping TCO at
acceptable levels over a period of time, including
Data capturing tools
Data cleansing tools
Data Consolidation tools
Data storage tools
Information dissemination tools
Hardware Infrastructure
4. Solution Architecture
Plan and Design a technical architecture
Aligned to the business needs
Scalable for future needs
Scalable across various functions within the enterprise
Scalable across multiple entities within the group
Easily Maintainable

6. Advisory Services
5. Data Quality Assessment
This service is aimed towards
Identifying key business rules within the assigned scope,
Identifying current data quality issues
Recommend an implementation strategy
6. Business Intelligence System / Project Audit
Some of the questions/ queries that may get answered are:
Is the business getting the most from your BI investment
The business has changed since the BI solution was implemented
The current solution is not giving the right information at the right time
Poor data quality is undermining business confidence in the BI output
Make the BI solution available to a broader audience and understand what
changes are required to be made.

7. Implementation Services
We offer the following implementation services:
plan, manage, design, develop and implement BI/DW project for the client
We can complete the entire project for the client or work jointly with the client’s
staff
“All our projects involve knowledge transfer to business and IT personnel involved in the project”
Our implementation services include:
Project Jumpstart
Full Development Life-Cycle

8. Education and Training
We provide education and training in the BI/DW area
Our training objective - provide the customer with a better understanding of what it
takes to be successful in their BI/DW projects
Our courses are targeted towards the project sponsors, stake holders and business
users
We have 4 courses in the “UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR CORPORATE DATA” series
1. Introduction to Business Information Systems – Fundamentals of ERP and BI
2. Getting correct and complete requirements for Business Intelligence systems
3. Business Intelligence Program Management
4. Data Quality Fundamentals

9. Education and Training
1. Introduction to Business Information Systems – Fundamentals BI
promotes common language, consistent definitions, shared expectations, and
mutual understanding essential to successful business intelligence programs
provides a comprehensive overview of business, technical, and cultural implications
of business intelligence
2. Getting correct and complete requirements for Business Intelligence systems
teaches the techniques to identify BI requirements
tools to manage requirements
checklists to ensure completeness

10. Education and Training
3. Business Intelligence Program Management
Managing BI projects is a difficult responsibility that challenges even the most
experienced of IT project managers
Learn how to choose among traditional, agile, and other project management
methods
Then find out how to apply the chosen method for project planning, execution,
monitoring, control, completion, and closure
4. Data Quality Fundamentals
This course provides a high-level overview of data quality problems and
solutions
It starts with the description of causes of data quality problems, and proceeds to
outline major components of a comprehensive data quality program