The BackOffice Associates^TM Data Audit^TM

Whether planning an implementation, blueprinting, or already live on SAP a data audit will help you identify data quality challenges. Launching an SAP data migration or governance initiative is no trivial task. The risks of poor data quality are well known and SAP demands business-ready data for effective business process execution. Most project delays and failures are the result of having no process for measuring the data’s ability to run SAP. Simply put – the only way to truly know your data’s quality for SAP is to challenge its SAP Business-Readiness.

Our Data Audits™ are a great starting engagement for companies exploring either migration for a new SAP project or feasibility determination of a reconciliation effort for data quality issues (what we refer to as DataDialysis^®).  For Data Migration, this involves identifying all sources and preliminary business rules surrounding the SAP requirements.  For DataDialysis, our team identifies specific master data errors causing the business problems presented by the client.  

The BackOffice Associates™ Data Audit™ toolset delivers the “day 1 scenario” – a “what if we go-live tomorrow” impact analysis of your actual data to articulate its business-readiness of your corporate data. This is a critical activity for effective risk mitigation planning in any SAP data migration or governance initiative.

BackOffice Associates has been providing Data Audits for some of the largest SAP clients in the world with the highest complexity in data for almost ten years. The Data Audit methodology is solidly founded in more than a decade of successful SAP data migration projects for large global organizations. In each of these engagements BackOffice Associates has provided quality metrics on the data specific to the individual customer. The results have been actionable information enabling effective project scoping and mapping early in the project timeline, or plans for remediation of existing data quality issues.

Data Audit Deliverables

The Data Audit involves a series of events focused on delivering a Business-Readiness Assessment focused on your data and business process needs. For data migration, this involves identifying all sources and preliminary business rules surrounding the SAP requirements. For data governance, our team identifies specific master data errors and classifications of errors causing the business process interruptions in your SAP environment.

Our main goal will be to analyze which data is business relevant to be loaded into SAP and which data is business ready to support your future processes. For data already in SAP, an analysis of the quality and business-readiness will similarly be carried out. The deliverables will be:

o        Identification of source data issues that can cause SAP load errors

o        Business-Relevance reports on main objects identified by source issues

o        Business-Readiness reports on main objects identified by source issues

o        SAP load errors

o        Data quality impact analysis on business processes

o        Migration planning and strategy needs

o        Remediation action plan for existing data quality issues

o        Data profiles

Because the activities in a BackOffice Associates Data Audit occur as a preparation for our other services, the work product from this event is fully recycled into subsequent data migration or DataDialysis^® activities and adds strong value for the manager building consensus toward the solution path ahead.

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