Workshops
Get one step closer to your digital transformation.
Optimus is running a series of workshops on several Microsoft Azure services to help you and your team get a step closer to digital transformation. The workshops range from one hour to a full day, depending on the topic and the needs of your organization.
This is an excellent opportunity for your organization’s management to see the impact of digital transformation first hand. We will work directly with your team and tailor a workshop based on your needs.
Workshops
Cloud Adoption Framework
When you start your cloud adoption journey, it is critical to develop a strong plan that includes people, processes, operations, management, and governance. Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework is a proven guide designed to help create and implement the business and technology strategies necessary for your organization to succeed in the cloud. In this workshop, Optimus Information will introduce the Cloud Adoption Framework and provide best practices and tools to accelerate your cloud adoption journey.
Audience:
• Senior Management/ Department Heads.
Prerequisites:
• None – you’re good to go!
Our approach:
• Introduction to the Cloud Adoption Framework
• Walk through the 6 stages of the framework
• How do you get started on your journey
Outcomes:
You will learn how to create a cloud adoption plan, best practices and tools to use and how to get started.
Data & AI Roadmapping
Businesses can significantly benefit from Data and AI. However, it can be expensive, time taking and overwhelming without a clear roadmap. We have created a Data & AI Roadmap Development offering to streamline the initiatives. Many of our clients have already experienced alignment and clarity as a result of these workshops.
Audience:
• Senior Management/ Department Heads.
Prerequisites:
• Information about available data sources and company’s business goals.
Our approach:
• Pre-workshop: Interview key stakeholders to share trigger questions and workshop agenda.
• Workshop: Collate business requirements with a rundown of high level process map.
• Post-workshop: Prepare Data & AI roadmap with cost estimation.
Outcomes:
Align key business stakeholders around the business results they would like to accomplish and how these results can be supported by Data & AI initiatives to deliver the maximum return on investment.
App Modernization
Is your organization looking to modernize? Through this workshop you will get a better understanding of the steps involved in modernizing legacy on-premises applications by leveraging cloud applications. This also offers a great opportunity for participants to discuss the challenges they face with their infrastructure and the best way to resolve them.
Audience:
• Business Analysts/ Department Heads.
Prerequisites:
• None – you’re good to go!
Our approach:
• White-boarding design session: Work with a group to design a solution for modernizing legacy on-premises applications and infrastructure.
• Hands-on lab: Implement the steps to modernize legacy on-premises application.
Outcomes:
Through this workshop you will learn to implement an end-to-end scenario based in Microsoft Azure App services and related services.
Power BI in 2 hours
Power BI is an extremely powerful tool that can allow you to harness the power of your data. The workshop offers participants an immersive experience of transforming the data trapped in spreadsheets to an easy, cost-effective, and powerful dashboard using Microsoft Power BI. The simplicity and effectiveness often comes as a surprise and could be where you start your Data & AI journey.
Audience:
• Department Heads.
Prerequisites:
• None – you’re good to go!
Our approach:
• Data sourcing: Take an example of a company and use its data for the workshop.
• Understanding the data: Do a deep-dive to understand the complexity of the data and the challenges it presents.
• Dashboarding: Hand-on experience with Power BI.
Outcomes:
This workshop will give you an introduction to Power BI including data sourcing, display features, publishing data and reports, and the app store.
Powering Business Results through Dashboards
It is difficult and often frustrating for business owners and CEOs to run their companies using Dashboards. The data formats from different units vary. The requirements keep changing and often seem contradictory. The result is that 90% of the Dashboards do not survive beyond a month.
This workshop shows the participants how they can give the kind of requirements which will lead to creating useful Dashboards.
Audience:
• Business Owner/ CEO
Prerequisites:
• None – you’re good to go!
Our approach:
• Show examples of the types of Dashboards and their use
• Build the Key Performance Indicators and Metric hierarchy for the business
• Show an example of a Business Results Dashboard
• Facilitate the participants in creating the requirements for their Dashboard
Outcomes:
Understand the different types of dashboards and which one to use when
Create draft requirements for company’s Business Results Dashboard
Portfolio Analysis using Power BI
CFOs have to collate financial data from many different sources for analysis. This leads to many complex interlinked spreadsheets that keep growing over time. Managing these requires a lot of work and can be prone to error. This workshop shows the participants how they can integrate data from different sources and analyze it using Power BI.
Audience:
• CFO
Prerequisites:
• None – you’re good to go!
Our approach:
• Review a typical financial statement consolidation case study
• Walk through Power BI to connect to various data sources
• Provide examples of reports and analysis using Power BI
• Draft requirements for company’s portfolio analysis
Outcomes:
Understand the capabilities of Power BI to integrate and analyze data.
Create draft requirements for company’s portfolio analysis.
Contact us to learn more or to schedule a workshop.