Artis Consulting provides a full range of services centered around business intelligence and analytics.

BI Quick Start
This is a special offering that Artis Consulting has put together for clients that need a quick turn around evaluation of their business intelligence situation. Learn more ...

Assessments and Audit Remediation
How would you rate the quality of the data your organization depends on? Artis Consulting can help you determine the answer to questions like this. Organizations have looked to us to help them with data quality audits, Sarbanes-Oxley assessment and remediation, standardization of terminology and business rules, data architecture assessment, and BI readiness evaluations. Answers to these questions ultimately lead to improved business results.

Strategy and Roadmap
A Business Intelligence strategy is vital for all organizations, whether you are just beginning to think about a BI initiative or whether you are well down the road with solutions in place. Artis Consulting can help you develop a sound strategy that will ensure that drivers are clearly understood and agreed upon and that measurable goals and objectives are in place. This allows a plan to be developed that leverages your people, processes, and tools to their full potential. You will be able to answer questions like how much and what kind of data is pushed through the enterprise and what potential business opportunities exist.

Technology Evaluation and Selection
When it comes to your Business Intelligence solution investment, you want to make sure you have the right tools to do the job. Over buy and resources are wasted, under buy and your initiative could be crippled by tools that don’t get the job done. Artis Consulting can help you make the right selections by engaging and facilitating your team through our software assessment and selection process that takes into consideration your business and technical environment and needs.

Business Analysis
One of the most common causes of failed software projects is insufficient understanding or communication of requirements. Often times, a solution is developed but it doesn’t meet the needs of the users. Artis Consulting follows a systematic approach to identifying, documenting, organizing, and tracking the requirements of a project. We work closely with our clients to identify requirements of functionality, usability, reliability, performance, information delivery, and supportability. Requirements are then organized and incorporated into project plans based on budget, priority, complexity, and dependencies.

Like our project management approach, our requirements management process assumes the requirements will continue to change and evolve and is, therefore, highly adaptive.

Data Architecture & Implementation
Our Data Architecture group believes solid data architecture is a key to successful BI solutions. Often overlooked, data architecture is a key part of every solution. Considerations such as data range and volume, timing, conformity, quality, and data modeling must be taken into account to ensure the solution requirements are met. The Data Architecture group works closely with the Application Architecture group to ensure all the pieces of the solution work well together.

We have experience working with our clients developing data-centric solutions from the beginning concept phase, to development and testing, through production rollout and transition.

Application Architecture & Implementation
Our Application Architecture group believes a solid architecture and design is the foundation to a high quality, reliable, and extensible system. The decisions that are made (or not made) at this level impact the schedule, budget, and long-term success of a system by orders of magnitude over those made during software construction. Therefore, it is critical that a quality architecture and design is established based on current requirements, as well as anticipated future business needs.

We have experience working with our clients developing data-centric application solutions from the beginning concept phase, to development and testing, through production rollout and transition.

Mentoring & Knowledge Transfer
Artis Consulting takes great pride in our unique combination of skills and expertise. We feel most organizations and individuals can be equally capable, given the proper training, mentoring, and experience. Our culture, internally, is one of mentorship and collaboration. Extending this culture into client organizations is a very rewarding experience for us, as well as our clients.

Rather than conduct substantial post-implementation knowledge transfer exercises, we involve client participants from various disciplines throughout the project. This is a mutually beneficial arrangement, providing continuous knowledge transfer in each direction. This provides us with continuous insight into the business and allows our clients to ramp up on the solution and technology gradually, as it is being developed.

Project Management
In addition to technical capabilities, proper project management is a very important part of a project’s success. Strong project management will minimize project risk and improve client satisfaction. Some of the key elements to project management are concise and regular communication, thorough planning, continuous issue and risk management, and resource management.

The Artis Consulting team has significant experience leading and managing projects in multiple industries and solution domains. Through the years, we have learned that one size does not fit all, you must be adaptable. Our approach to project management and software development leverages the best practices we have observed from industry standards, such as the Microsoft Solutions Framework and the Rational Unified Process, as well as the best practices of our customers and software partners.