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The Business Analytics Solution

IT Business Analytics (ITBA) is a strategy enabler. It enables executives to continuously improve their business by measuring what happened and what is happening, analyzing that information, and planning new strategies using the gathered information. This enables a better strategy execution resulting in a reduction of cost and risk, and an increase in quality and value.

ITBA provides:

  • Performance Measurements (KPIs and metrics) that measure performance and how the IT goals and objectives are met.
  • Cascaded Objectives (Scorecards) that provide the means to define IT goals and objectives.
  • Actionable insights into performance improvements (KPIs and Data Level Analytics) that increase the performance improvement planning effectiveness via collaboration.
  • Actionable insights on the performance measurements that impact the Cascading Scorecards.
  • Traceability into the performance measurement and then into the actionable insights.

Closed Solution

ITBA includes a data warehouse with data from some products. The data is gathered and analysis performed to present a set of dashboards and reports with actionable insights for end-users such as CIO and VP of Operations.

The data sources of the data warehouse can be the supported HPE software products and third party open source products. For details, see Integrations and Coexistence .

The ITBA application provides the end-user with a tool that enables to measure to which extent their organizations objectives have been achieved and to analyze and decide where to put the effort to improve these objectives.

ITBA:

  • Is driven by the business personas challenges.
  • Is aligned with the IT objectives of these challenges.
  • Its Key Performance Indicators (KPIS) are based on the IT Data Model.
  • Its analytics results are presented in a Dashboard.

ClosedReporting Strategy

ITBA provides:

  • Strategic measurements in the ITBA Dashboard:

    • Persona-based dashboards
    • Scorecards
    • Cascaded Scorecards
    • KPI Library (templates)
    • KPI engine
  • Strategy Analytics:

    • Long term and eagle eye view analytics
    • Executive and decision maker users
    • Based on an IT Data Warehouse
    • Universes compliant with the IT Data Model
    • May correlate multi-products data.
  • Operational reports:

    • Real-time or near real-time access to data.
    • Users are the same as the operational product users.
    • Silo reporting solution.