Assessment walkthrough
Best when you are evaluating fit, clarifying systems in scope, reviewing output shape, or checking security and access posture before committing to a run.
Services
Consulting support around TangleMap evidence.
TangleMap accelerates the assessment. Services help teams scope the right estate slice, interpret the evidence, explain the caveats, and turn findings into a practical modernization decision.
Two ways to start
Start with a walkthrough or move directly to a bounded pilot.
The walkthrough is the lighter first conversation. The pilot is the first real assessment run. Teams with a clear estate slice do not need to wait for a generic walkthrough before discussing pilot scope.
Pilot assessment
Best when there is a representative estate slice, an owner or sponsor, a realistic collector/access path, and agreed success criteria for useful output.
Why services exist
Assessment evidence still needs a point of view.
TangleMap can make a messy Microsoft BI estate more visible. The consulting layer helps decide what that visibility means: which assets matter, which conclusions are strong enough to trust, where confidence is thin, and what decisions should come next.
If you are evaluating TangleMap
Services help decide whether the assessment is a fit, what the first estate slice should be, and what evidence would make the output useful enough to act on.
If you already have assessment output
Services help interpret caveats, compare modernization paths, prepare stakeholder readouts, and shape the next planning backlog.
If you are a consulting partner
Services help package TangleMap evidence into your advisory, assessment, or delivery framework without forcing a new methodology.
Read about partner use and licensingService areas
From assessment scope to planning confidence.
The first use case is legacy Microsoft BI assessment. The service frame is deliberately bounded: use structured evidence to reduce uncertainty before roadmap, funding, partner, or platform decisions.
Assessment setup and scope
Define the Microsoft BI estate slice, access model, success criteria, and assessment outputs before collection begins.
Evidence review
Use TangleMap output to review inventory, dependencies, coverage gaps, warnings, complexity signals, and confidence caveats.
Modernization path review
Compare retain-and-investigate, phased modernization, and priority-planning paths with platform direction treated as advisory context.
Roadmap and sequencing support
Translate findings into practical next steps, dependency-aware sequencing, risk review, and a planning backlog for consultant-led decisions.
Business case support
Help leaders explain why modernization should start with assessment evidence, where uncertainty affects cost, and which risks deserve funding.
Executive readout support
Package findings into a clear story for data, analytics, platform, and technology leaders who need enough evidence to choose a defensible path.
Partner advisory support
Help consulting partners, Microsoft partners, and modernization teams use TangleMap evidence inside their own advisory or delivery frameworks.
How it works
A focused bridge from product output to advisory action.
- Clarify the modernization question and the systems in scope.
- Run or review TangleMap assessment evidence for the selected estate.
- Separate direct evidence from inferred relationships, gaps, and caveats.
- Turn findings into roadmap options, business-case inputs, or partner delivery context.
Boundaries
Clear scope keeps the promise credible.
- TangleMap is not a migration engine or automated converter.
- The current MVP is not a hosted client portal or broad governance/catalog platform.
- Services stay assessment-led, with implementation planning handled through explicit follow-on scope.
- The broader consulting site will describe advisory work from a wider modernization perspective later; this page stays focused on TangleMap evidence.
Next step
Use the assessment question to shape the service.
Start with the systems in scope and the decision that needs better evidence. Then decide whether the next step is a pilot, evidence review, roadmap discussion, business-case support, or partner assessment motion.