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BAO Technical Briefing Handbook Version 10.0

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Our BAO Offerings

BAO Strategy

Business Intelligence & Performance Management

Advanced Analytics and Optimization

Enterprise Information Management

Enterprise Content Management

• BAO Strategy & Roadmap

• Business Value Case

• Strategy Deployment & Benefits Tracking

• Change Management & Adoption

• BIPM Vision and Roadmap

• Business Analytics & Reporting

• Dashboards and Scorecards

• Planning, Budgeting, & Forecasting

• Analytic Applications

• Business Assessment & Data Gathering

• Predictive Analytics & Data Mining

• Business Optimization

• Simulation

• Visualization

• EIM Architecture and Data Warehousing

• Data Modeling and Industry Models

• Data Integration

• Information Governance

• Master Data Management

• Collaboration & Document Management

• eDiscovery, Compliance & Records Management

• Advanced Case Management

• Content & Text Analytics

• Output and Report Management

Skills available in Global Delivery

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GD BAO Key Capability Areas

BAO StrategyBI & Performance

Management (BIPM)Advanced Analytics & Optimization (AAO)

Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

Application Design and Development

Application Architecture, Information Architecture, Solution Architecture

Application Development and Maintenance

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

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Infosphere MDM Server for PIM

Infosphere MDM Server

Industry ModelsIndustry Models

Other Infosphere Tools Supported

InfoSphere Discovery: Evaluates data values and patterns from disparate source systems (AS/400, Oracle, SQLServer) to identify relationship

InfoSphere Analyzer: Analyzes data structure and content of source systems to provide comprehensive information on data quality.

InfoSphere Business Glossary: Defines and standardizes business and technical relationship with source systems. It also enables data governance and promotes collaboration amongst stakeholders.

InfoSphere Change Data Capture (CDC): Sense relevant data change from source systems, and routes the content to specified area for CDM ODS upload

InfoSphere FastTrack: Accelerates the translation of business requirements and generation of ETL jobs.

InfoSphere QualityStage: Provides capabilities for building an data-cleansing transformation tasks. It can be seen as extension of DataStage.

InfoSphere Data Architect: Provides graphical user interface crucial to understand the information stored in the metadata repository that is generated and maintained by other software products.

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench: Provides graphical user interface crucial to understand the information stored in the metadata repository that is generated and maintained by other software products.

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Technical Interview Process Flow Chart

Pre-screening of candidate’s profile by BPD.

If candidate is selected, technical round of interview is done which is followed by Final round of PDM interview.

Candidate can be “Selected”, “Rejected” or put “On Hold.

If selected, candidate is offered a position in IBM

“On Hold Cases”-Tech Reject can’t be on hold.

Screen Select

Test Select

PDM Select

Pre screening of candidate by BPD

F2F/Tele Tech Interviews

PDM Interview

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Do’s: Make candidate feel comfortable while taking the interview. You are representing IBM during the interview and hence make sure you are professional and gracious. Candidates should be treated equally coming from big or small companies. Interview should be minimum 15 minutes and maximum 30-35 minutes. It is prudent to do a screening for 10-

15 minutes first and not proceed further if candidate fails in screening. The screening should include validating CV with the employee and then asking candidate some initial questions on the tool etc. If candidate passes screening, then panel should probe further.

If you think candidate is fake, please inform Staffing/Hiring teams and SALs. Check for communication skills while asking tech questions. Do ask the candidate about his strong technical areas and start questioning him on the same, to find out his

skill level. Questions should be more based on projects or scenario-based Do fill Evaluation Sheet completely. Be as detailed as possible so that you can refer to it later if there are

follow-up queries. Evaluate candidate on all the skills. If he or she is strong in some areas and weak in some areas, make the

judgement call on whether the candidate will be able to perform on the job. Do fill Overall Rating. Do mention additional comments, both comments and rating should be in sync. Do mention your name, employee id and mobile number in the sheet clearly If any gap found in education or employment, mention in additional comment section. For project specific hires, if the candidate is not suitable for the project but overall good, please do

recommend for Pool hires instead of rejecting him. In case you have slight doubt about suitability, you can ask for re-interview. But intent should be to try to

close it out in the first round. When travelling for hiring, please make sure you check with Ameena or rest of Hiring team whether you are

within budget. You are not expected to communicate to candidate whether he/she is a select/reject You are not expected to answer any technical queries that the candidate may have

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Don’t s:

Do not ask candidate about expected salary of candidate or joining location. The job of the PDMer is to discuss these details and assess the candidate's suitability.

Do not disclose the salary, banding structures, on site opportunities and project details to the candidates. The job of the PDMer is to discuss these details and assess the candidate's suitability.

Do not reject candidate on the basis of attitude. Forward such cases to the PDM interview for the final decision of selection. But mention in Tech sheet your observations

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Technical Assessment has been formed to judge candidates for 2 Roles- Application Developer Sr Application Developer Tech Lead

Technical round : This round is basically to check technical skills of the candidates .Tech Evaluation sheet has been divided in to three parts to judge candidates on below mentioned skills.

[A] Soft Skills : Communications skills (grammar, correctness, pronunciation, clarity, articulation and delivery).

[B] Technical Skills: Design skills, Architecture skills (for Senior), Reporting/ETL/DWBI development skills, Data-modelling skills (for Senior)

[C] Managements Skills : Basically applies for senior candidates like Tech Lead/PM. Additional Comments: It is mandatory for panels to mention detailed comments about the

candidates in the “ADDITIONAL COMMENTS” field. Apart from that it is also necessary to mention the “Trainings needed” in this field.

Overview of Technical Interview Form

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Rating Range (1-10) No skill / knowledge[ 0 ] Acquired knowledge [1-3] Applied knowledge [4-8] Mastered [9-10]Type of Skills- (Technical Evaluation form Attached herewith) Candidate has to be evaluated in all skills mentioned in the evaluation sheet. However,

benchmark scores indicate the importance of a skill/sub-skill pertaining to a particular role.

Overall rating : Overall rating should be given compulsorily based on the performance of the candidate. While calculating the average rating the skills with benchmark scores of 5 and above should be considered.

Score range: 0-10Selection Cut-off: At least 5

Ratings

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Tech sheet for different BAO skills

When you are sending back the Tech evaluation sheet electronically back to Staffing team, please just retain the relevant sheet/s and delete other sheets to keep the size of the tech sheet small

BAO_Tech Sheet v15.0

Sample Tech sheet BAO_Tech Sheet v15.0_Sample

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BAO LeadershipSimon Thomas – BAO Service Line Leader

Mohan K Silaparasetty – BAO Strategy and Assets Leader

Tapas Bandyopadhyay– Business Intelligence and Performance Management

Svayambhu Chaudhuri – Enterprise Information Management

Madhusudhan Ramidi – Enterprise Content Management

Abhay Sharma - Advanced Analytics and Optimization

Kigshuk Banerjee – BAO Strategy, GD COC Leader

Koushik Das – BAO Architecture

Perumal V Sankaran – BAO Operations Leader

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BAO Hiring Team Helpline

BAO Hiring Manager: Thyagarjan Selvaraj - +91.98.862.965.52

BAO Hiring Execution Manager: Ameena Ahmed - +91 9845711886

BAO Hiring Team (BAO Hiring team@in.ibm.com)

All queries related to BAO hiring should be directed to the BAO Hiring Team contacts provided above or to generic ID

Claim Codes for the year 2011

-Account ID - Interview Claim : INT4042-Account ID - Interview Expense : INT4044-Work Item - INTPANEL

“Panels can claim for Food(Rs.100) & Travel.”

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