Most companies today recognize the importance of improved information management. The only real question is how to get it done. One key is transparency. Unfortunately, many companies don’t have the solutions in place to manage information effectively. Their enterprise systems do a good job of handling day-to-day operations. But when it comes to analysis and insight, spreadsheets and manual processing are still business as usual. In fact, a large company can spend hundreds of millions of euros annually on manual number-crunching and ad hoc analysis. To make matters worse, the resulting numbers tend to be inconsistent and ambiguous, which often leaves decision-makers scratching their heads about which data is right.
Visibility to the one version of “truth” can be clouded. Business intelligence and data warehousing can provide the systems, tools, processes and governance to help companies manage information more effectively – converting data from disparate sources into high-quality information that is consistent, actionable and useful.
Our business intelligence and data warehousing teams help our clients :
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avoiding the typical pitfalls of BI/DWH initiatives: lack of information governance, lack of clear business rules and metrics, and lack of executive sponsorship |
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realizing the main benefits of a BI/DWH initiative: timely, accurate and consistent information, better informed decision-making and reduced risk and cost of managing information. |
Our major services offerings include:
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BI/DWH Strategy: determine our clients BI/DWH strategy, including architecture blueprints, tool selections, organization & data governance, business case and roadmap |
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BI/DWH maturity assessments: assess our clients current BI/DWH maturity and determine their ambitions for the future |
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Key Performance Indicator design: help our clients pinpoint the metrics and measurements that can drive business value |
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BI/DWH Implementations: help our clients develop and implement an information architecture that support data warehousing, reporting and analysis. |
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Advanced Analytics: help our clients going one step further in analyzing their data. Data mining, predictive modeling, pricing analysis, spend analysis, etc. |
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XBRL: help our clients Moving to a global standard for electronic business reporting, focusing on XBRL taxonomy design and XBRL implementations. |