Our experience to date of many companies that utilize Business Intelligence tools for users of restricted company areas and for specific improvement issues opens two key questions:

• Is this approach suitable to enable the company to achieve the competitive advantages expected from the use of Business Intelligence?
• Is the company ready for a quality leap that embraces a longer term strategy of business information management?

Business Intelligence applications, according to Iconsulting and many market analysts, are interdependent and must be managed in an extended context. A BI project needs an accurate preliminary analysis, in order to understand how the use of information can improve the capability to reach the business goals which have been set.
Iconsulting helps its clients to understand that the success capability of a company in taking competitive advantages from an effective management of information is a function of Infrastructures, People, Processes, Models and Culture. Assessment services point at analyzing the initial situation of the client and at defining a path of improvement across 5 guiding principles.
Among the goals of the process of Assessment we can identify:

• Feasibility study
• Business Information Modelling
• Software selection
• Definition of roles and company competencies
• Check-up according to 5 basic fields: