Technology Assessment QuickScan

From MIKE2 Methodology

Technology Assessment QuickScan is a tool that is part of the MIKE2.0 Methodology that is used to make objective decisions around product selection. The tool provides a number of key criteria from which users can match functional, non-functional and commercial requirements to compare vendor products as well as open source alternatives.

Wiki-based versions of the assessment have been added the cover the following areas:

• ETL
• Data Investigation/Data Re-Engineering
• Metadata Management

Wikis are not the right content for conducting assessments, but these pages have been created as a means to initiate the process and specifically to asses open source products.

Current Status

The MIKE2.0 Leadership Team is currently moving this tool into BearingPoint's web-based assessment framework as we believe this currently provides the easiest way for the open source community to use this content. Eventually, all web-based assessments that are part of MIKE2.0 will be full open sourced so that Contributors can more effectively add questions. The excel-based version of Technology Assessment QuickScan described in the page can be found in the Intraspect file repository (currently only available to internal BearingPoint users ).

Future Technology Assessment Areas

In addition to moving Vendor QuickScan into a web-based framework, we also plan to extend the technology areas that it covers to include:

• Infrastructural Data Management
  • Archiving & Restoration
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Physical Database Management
  • Access control
  • Security
• Business Intelligence
• Database Management
• Data Models (coverage for certain data areas)
• Data Modelling tools
• Master Data Integration
• SDLC tools
  • Data Modelling tools
  • Configuration Management tools
  • Testing tools
• BRE (Business Rule Engines)
• Business Process Management
• Web Portals
• Federated Integration
• Unstructured Data Management

Open Source Assessment Framework

The long-term goal for MIKE2.0 is to have all assessment frameworks in a Open Source Assessment Framework.