IMCue Solutions

• Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Services
  We develop a solid, business-aligned, sustainable enterprise information management strategy. We address most of the sub-disciplines of EIM, delivering specific strategy and solutions in the areas of data governance, information asset management, meta data management, data warehouse / business intelligence, semantic ontology, and knowledge management.
• Sustaining Services
  EIM creates a need — the need to manage organizational challenges that prevent sustaining the new programs. We are the only firm that actively recruits and deploys seasoned human capital and organization development professionals as part of our EIM team.
• Vendor tracking and selection
  IMCue stays close to all EIM-related vendors through our self-funded research.
• Program Management
  We will manage the implementation of your EIM programs. We have seasoned PMO leaders that can coordinate your large EIM-related programs.
• EIM Training
  IMCue offers standard or customized training in most of the topics or disciplines around EIM

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Services

Our approach is based on years of experience embodied in our groundbreaking methodology – IMedge™.

EIM strategy – We develop a solid, business aligned sustainable enterprise information management strategy.

EIM Business Cases – We have a proven process to develop sustainable business cases, reflecting alignment to business strategy, portfolio management and improving the efficiency of information usage.

EIM environmental readiness assessment and benchmarking – We evaluate current state data usage such as data warehouse effectiveness, the total cost of ownership of BI, or readiness for collaborative applications.

Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence procurement – IMCue provides objective guidance and industry-leading evaluation templates to ensure your technology investments provide the returns promised by the vendors.

Enterprise metrics definition and deployment – A firm fixed-price service that defines the requirements of your BI environment in a fraction of the time other firms take.

- We provide pre-cast metrics and KPI models to jump-start your scorecard, KPI, or analytics project.

Collaborative and Knowledge Management environments definition – IMCue is one of few firms with real experience in monitoring business action and collaboration so you can measure process effectiveness.

Business Intelligence solutions implementation – We have the leaders and partners to deploy your solution at a competitive price without sacrificing quality.

Data Governance business case development, organizational design, and implementation – This lynch-pin of EIM must be implemented according an organization’s culture and direction. IMCue excels at customized Data Governance configurations.

Master Data and Meta Data strategy – We identify the requirements and deploy the appropriate level of “golden source” data that drives business functions.

Sustaining Services

• FACT: EIM creates the need to manage organizational challenges that prevent sustaining the new programs.
• FACT: A lack of attention to the sustaining challenges can cripple your investment in EIM.
• FACT: We are the only firm that actively recruits and deploys seasoned human capital and organization development professionals as part of our EIM team.
• IMCue provides:
  Sustaining the Organization.
  - Information maturity assessments
  - Change management business case development
  - Organizational development and realignment
  - Change management planning and execution
  - EIM Education and Orientation
  Sustaining the business success of EIM.
  - Ongoing Cost of Ownership and Business Intelligence audits
  - Ongoing risk assessment and risk mitigation of information portfolios

Vendor Tracking and Selection

• FACT: There are many tools and technologies that must not only meet requirements but also co-exist with other tools.
• IMCue provides:
  - Objective guidance and industry leading evaluation templates to ensure your technology investments provide the returns promised by the vendors.
  - A short list of qualified vendors. There is plenty of information around to narrow down lists of products without being visited by dozens of vendors.

Program Management

• FACT: For an EIM effort to be successful, it requires ongoing management, and setting up this infrastructure can be daunting.
• IMCue provides:
  - Set-up and staffing of the EIM Program Management Office.
  - Mentoring and assistance to your internal team so that knowledge is transferred while progress is being made.
  - Access to IMCue’s extensive network. IMCue has the relationships that allow us to provide high-quality, cost-effective, and experienced deployment resources that can fill any gaps in skill sets.

EIM Training

• FACT: There are smart people in your organization. Sometimes you do not need a consulting engagement. Rather, a little training and mentoring and
  off you go.  Our training programs are designed to not only inform, but also get you started.
• Standard Training: We offer one day and two day versions of the following topics:
  - Data Governance
  - Master Data Management
  - Information Architecture
  - Business Alignment and Information
  - Building EIM as a Business Program
  - Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse Architecture
  - Sustaining EIM Programs
• Custom Training:
  - We can customize any of the above topics. Typically we incorporate data and material from your actual circumnstances into
  case studies. The result is a useable, relevant work product for your organization.