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Analytics Assessment

Data driven decision-making

Your workforce and your clients expect decisions to be made based on evidence. How to optimise performance, how to boost efficiency, how to cut wasteful spending. Without a clear understanding of what your data is telling you – and how you cultivate that data – you’ll always be reactive, playing catch-up. Advania’s analytics assessment can change this, making your decisions proactive, always building to the next goal and always staying one step ahead.

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Accelerate to data maturity with an analytics assessment from Advania

The rich source of information within your data estate stretches across all of the structures and platforms that you rely on as an organisation, including both internal as well as external data acquired from third party sources. A well-managed data estate can provide valuable insights for decision-making, improve your operational efficiency, enhance client experience and drive overall innovation. Our data analytics assessment identifies the data you have and how you can use it to your greatest advantage.

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How Advania’s analytics assessment answers your data challenges

The most innovative and successful organisations are always looking to improve and evolve. If you want to improve your data estate and actually understand the information you have at your fingertips to support your goals, an analytics assessment can help you. No matter whether you are new to cloud analytics or have an existing analytics platform that you need assistance with, we can offer you a thorough evaluation to identify how trustworthy and secure your data is. Let us help you better engage with your cloud analytics to enable faster business insights, ensure the right people have access and guarantee privacy compliance.

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Accelerate your analytics insights

  • Break down data silos to enhance data discovery 
  • Ensure the data is trustworthy 
  • Customised to meet your individual requirements and product preferences
  • Democratise access to insights
  • Upgrade legacy to cloud
  • Future-proof your data platform and highlight changes in the roadmap
  • Identify areas to save money on your license costs

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Easily access expertise and training

  • Identify your current and potential compliance exposure  
  • Identify the needs for sensitivity labels, data loss prevention policies, Azure Defender for Cloud and other security and monitoring solutions 
  • Identify any potential limitations with existing controls and provide solutions to resolve the limitations 
  • Ensure the optimum use of a Purview data governance solution

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Data-driven insights

  • Perform a skills gap analysis on your existing data team to identify training needs
  • Recommend specific Microsoft certifications to enable your data team to support the data estate 
  • Create a tailored training programme to support data analysts, data scientists, data engineers and developers. 
  • Introduce and support a centre of excellence (COE) to provide expert advice and explore the benefits of a data driven culture.

Empower your people with an analytics assessment

Your data often represents the richest mine of information about your business that exists. From raw analytical data to customer feedback, and from internal user statistics to historic sales figures, when properly managed and harnessed, your data can give you direct guidance about your strengths and weaknesses. 

Many organisations don’t realise that they are sitting on a goldmine of strategic information. Discover how Azure data services can help you.

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Advania’s analytic assessments: expertise for businesses of every size

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When you move forward at pace, you need a managed services provider who can deliver reliably at speed. With Advania’s proven expertise in Windows and SQL migration services to Azure, we can accelerate you towards a modern, secure and agile data platform in just six weeks. Our proven expertise coupled with our Azure Data Platform Accelerator service will help you to:

Fabric readiness assessment: outcomes you can deliver on

After undergoing our assessment, you will be much better placed to leverage and act on your data. You will have:

  • A team of experts working with you to identify the power of your data
  • The knowledge of how to spot security vulnerabilities and select with solutions can address them
  • Identified opportunities to save licensing and processing costs
  • Established a centre of excellence to provide high level guiding principles for enacting governance, policies and guidelines
  • Identified training areas to upskill your data team and business exports to allow you better leverage your data
  • Learned how to make rapid, data-driven decisions
  • Identified your key business questions, discovered what data is available to answer them and the nature of your current responses to the questions

Built on strong foundations

Our analytics assessment is built on strong foundations that give our experts the chance to get to know you, understand your needs and formulate a solution and strategy that works directly for you. Here are the building blocks of our assessment.

identify key stakeholders

Identify key stakeholders who will benefit from the assessment

conduct interview

Conduct interview  to understand your business challenges, frustrations and concerns

map out existing

Map out your existing data architecture and identify your data sources

highlight

Highlight vulnerabilities in your architecture and provide alternate design and infrastructure considerations

identify gaps

Identify gaps in the data that are holding you back from achieving your goals

discover potential

Discover the full potential  residing in your data

confirm opportunities

Confirm opportunities for training and certifications to upskill your people

review data centre

Review your existing centre of excellence or implement a new one

identify data

Identify existing data monitoring capabilities and any additional monitoring needs

review data

Review data governance discovery processes and controls

provide assessment

Provide a comprehensive assessment document with recommended business use cases

present findings

Present findings to the project sponsors, stakeholders and key personnel

An award-winning trusted Microsoft partner

In the UK, Advania is recognised as a full Solutions Partner for Microsoft Cloud and an Azure Expert Managed Services Provider, ranking us among the global elite of Microsoft partners.

For your business, your people make the difference. For us, it’s no different – our success is your success. With Advania, you can trust you are gaining the best support and expert advice.

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A strategy that works directly for you

In a world where data tells more than half the story, you need to be sure that you’re gaining maximum benefit from the data you collect and maintain. To ensure that you’re data is doing everything you think it should and that that you are gaining maximum benefit from your investments, our experts can set up your analytics assessment today.

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