Analytics strategy and platform decisions

Strategy work is only useful if it ends in decisions someone can act on: which platform, which team structure, what gets built first, and what you stop doing. Syntrix does this work from the position of having built and run the estates that result, so the recommendations are constrained by what actually works in a healthcare reporting environment.

What it covers

• Platform decisions. Whether Microsoft Fabric is the right destination for your reporting, what it replaces, what it does not, and what the transition costs in capacity and people.
• Team structure. Centralized, federated, or hub-and-spoke, chosen for your organization’s size and how requests actually arrive, with the roles and hand-offs defined.
• Roadmap. A sequence of reporting and data work with dependencies made explicit, so leadership sees why the order is what it is.
• Build versus buy. Evaluating vendor analytics products against what your team could build and maintain, including the cost of maintaining it.
• Self-service scope. How far self-service BI should go for your organization, and what guardrails make it safe.

When to call

• A new CIO or CDAO needs an honest read on the current estate before committing to a direction.
• A vendor is proposing a platform and you need an independent view.
• The reporting team is structured for the EHR go-live that happened years ago, not for the questions being asked now.

What you get

A written strategy with decisions, not options: platform, structure, roadmap, and the reasoning behind each. Where the answer is Fabric, Fabric Foundations is the first step of the roadmap.