Data Platform Health Check: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Data

Is Your Data Platform Helping You Make the Right Decisions?

Your data platform is the backbone of your analytics strategy. But if it’s slow, unreliable, or poorly integrated, your business decisions suffer. Our Data Platform Health Check is designed to assess your current environment, uncover gaps, and provide a roadmap for improvement—so your data works for you, not against you.

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What Is a Data Platform Health Check?

A Data Platform Health Check is a structured assessment of your existing data systems—data integration, storage, governance, reporting, and analytics tools. We evaluate your platform’s alignment with your business needs, check for performance issues, and identify risks that could impact scalability, compliance, and ROI.

What We Review:

  • Data Integration: Are your data sources connected efficiently?
  • Data Quality & Governance: Can you trust your data?
  • Architecture & Scalability: Is your platform future-ready?
  • Reporting & Dashboards: Are insights timely and actionable?
  • Security & Compliance: Are you audit-ready?

Why Do You Need a Health Check?

Businesses often invest in data platforms, but without regular assessments, inefficiencies creep in. Symptoms include:

  • Reports that take hours or days to generate
  • Manual Excel-based workarounds
  • Conflicting numbers across departments
  • Poor user adoption of analytics tools
  • Data governance issues and compliance risks

A health check ensures your platform delivers maximum value — faster insights, cost efficiency, and confidence in decision-making.

Benefits of a Data Platform Health Check

Improve Decision-Making

Get accurate, real-time insights instead of second-guessing your reports.

Reduce Costs

Identify unused resources, redundant tools, and optimize your cloud spend.

Boost Performance

Enhance query speeds, streamline data pipelines, and eliminate bottlenecks.

Strengthen Governance

Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations, and avoid costly penalties.

Future-Proof Your Data Platform

Get a roadmap to scale your data strategy with new technologies like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, and Power BI.

What’s Included in Our Health Check?

We conduct a 360° review of your data ecosystem over a short, impactful engagement:

Current State Assessment

  • Review your architecture, tools, development and reporting environment.

Gap & Risk Analysis

  • Identify performance issues, data governance gaps, and security concerns.

Benchmark Against Best Practices

  • Compare your platform with industry standards and modern frameworks.

Actionable Recommendations

  • A prioritized roadmap for quick wins and long-term improvements.

Our Value Proposition

At DecodeData, we don’t just assess—we enable transformation.

Proven Expertise

15+ years in data analytics, cloud migration, and BI implementation.


Accelerators & Frameworks

Speed up assessment and recommendations.

Technology Leadership

Experts in Microsoft Azure, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric.


Business-Centric Approach

Align technology with your business outcomes, not the other way around.

When you choose DecodeData, you’re partnering with a team that understands both data and business.

The ROI of a Health Check

Many companies spend thousands on analytics tools, yet struggle with adoption and ROI. A health check pays off by:

  • Avoiding Bad Decisions: Reduce risk from inaccurate reporting.
  • Optimizing Cloud Costs: Identify underutilized resources (often 20-30% savings).
  • Driving User Adoption: Improve trust in reports for better business alignment.
  • Accelerating Time to Insight: Faster reporting = faster decision-making.

Typical ROI for a health check engagement?

5–10x the investment within 6–12 months.

How It Works (Timeline & Process)

Our standard 5-Day Engagement covers:

Day 1

Kick-off & Requirements Discussion

Day 2

Data Platform & Reporting Review

Day 3

Gap Analysis & Best Practice Benchmarking

Day 4

Draft Recommendations & Roadmap

Day 5

Final Presentation & Next Steps

Need a deeper dive? We also offer extended reviews for large-scale environments.

Deliverables You Get

Executive Summary Report

High-level findings and strategic recommendations

Current State Architecture Diagram

Visual representation of your existing data ecosystem

Risk & Gap Analysis Matrix

Prioritized list of vulnerabilities and opportunities

Quick Wins List

Actions you can take immediately to improve performance

Strategic Roadmap

3–12 month improvement plan with milestones

Success Stories

FAQs About Data Platform Health Check

The standard engagement is 5 business days. Larger environments may require 2–3 weeks.

Yes. After the assessment, we can help execute the roadmap, from quick fixes to full-scale platform modernization.

We specialize in Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, and can assess hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

No. Our review is non-intrusive and works alongside your existing systems without downtime.

Contact Us

Contact Information

info@decodedata.com.au
(02) 4072 5755
Level 1, 60 Martin Place
Sydney NSW 2000

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