Six Sigma + CMMI in Business

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Oracle Business Intelligence

The Power of Decision Making!

Why Six Sigma and CMMI matter in BI?

Six Sigma Business Intelligence Framework is a combination of Six Sigma
DMAIC with audit and process improvement blueprint of Capability Maturity
Management models to create the lowest TCO and highest ROI. It is the
customer-focused, metrics-based approach that leads to a better and
smarter way of creating and managing BI application deployments and
product development.

What is Six Sigma?

Our Promise!

Six Sigma is a disciplined, data-driven approach

and methodology for eliminating defects and
improving quality with Customer Satisfaction in
razor sharp focus. Six Sigma is a statistical
term that, in effect, translates as near perfection. A Six Sigma goal means the
product is
99.9997 percent defect free.

Six Sigma means putting the customer first and

striving for a product that is near perfection. Six
Sigma principles have produced significant results in
the business world for years. Using Step Aheads
Six Sigma approach to improving the quality of BI
assets can provide more value to an organization
than any number of our competitors guaranteed!

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Step Aheads focus on Customer

Critical to Quality (CTQ) are:- Performance
- Quality of Information
- Pervasive and
Actionable Intelligence
- Single Version of Truth
- Information Democracy
- Adaptive Visibility
- Corporate DNA

CTQ is the integral part of Six

Sigma. The fundamental objective
of the Six Sigma methodology is
based on a strategy that focuses
on process improvement and
variation reduction through the
application of statistical tools that
ultimately results in products that
are almost zero defect free. General
Electric, one of the most successful
companies implementing Six Sigma,
has estimated benefits on the order
of $10 billion during the first five
years of implementation.

The Six Sigma Black and Green

belts of Step Ahead can now lead
the way in helping you save
$$$$$ by developing and
deploying superior products and
providing value added services.

Core Values
Customer Value
CTQ (Critical To Quality)
Attributes most import to Customer
Defect Failure to deliver what
the customer wants
Variation What the customers
sees and feels
Process Capability What your
process can deliver

At Customer Site

At Step Ahead

We adopt Six Sigma in executing

projects at our client sites. The
goal of a Six Sigma program is
to reduce defects, increase
quality and customer
satisfaction. The life of Six
Sigma ties in with duration of the
project and typically addresses
process problems and produce
measurable return on
investment.

We adopt CMMI (Capability

Maturity Management
Integrated) as our
organizational framework for
improving our engagement with
our customers as well as
improving our internal
operational excellence. CMMI
establishes policies, provides
documented guidance, and
instantiates management
practices that support, track and
optimize our project
commitments.

consistently deliver quality BI

solutions.

Step Ahead Solutions, Inc.

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Stability Ensuring consistent,

predictable process

Core Differences
What WE are
1) We are subject matter experts
embracing industry standard
frameworks for quality and process
optimization

2) Dependent on the skill of the

founding principles upon which this
company was founded. We use CMM
to optimize & institutionalize our
managed processes (templates,
deployment kits, documents) and
use Six Sigma to reduce defects and

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