Diagnose root causes
Your decision support infrastructure is like a car, it requires regular maintenance. We find that many of our customers don't follow best practice when it comes to the upkeep of their systems. Over time, this can cause some major problems.
Mariner provides health checks, to help you diagnose the root causes and understand how you can fix the problems that are ailing your environment.
Reporting health check
Mariner’s reporting platform health check evaluates your reporting environment, uncovering any changes needed to:
- Minimize report lag
- Maximize the investment in Microsoft SQL Server
- Increase efficiency
- Build trust in your reports
We identify gaps between your current reporting practices to ensure that information is an asset for your organization. At the end of the healthcheck you get:
- Summary report & presentation
- Results of healthcheck
- Recommendations for improvements
- Suggested steps and incremental upgrades
Data Warehouse health checks
Mariner's data warehouse health check analyzes your current data warehouse architecture and characteristics to determine if your data warehouse is meeting your current business needs. For installed data warehouse deployments we:
- Review current business goals and objectives for the data warehouse
- Analyze multiple dimensions of the data warehouse across different facts
- Determine alignment with enterprise goals vs. departmental or siloed goals
- Review gaps in current dimensional model and needed dimensional model
- Review of data sources contained in the data warehouse and consider effects of disparate souces on enterprise reporting and dashboards
- Review data warehouse performance, reliability and scalability
Benefits of a Data Warehouse Health check include:
- Best practices overview
- Alignment with current business needs
- Gap analysis for areas where data warehouse is not meeting business needs
- Recommendations for next steps to provide better value from the data warehouse