The proliferation of the Internet, eCommerce and eBusiness has exponentially increased the amount of data organizations must collect and manage. The evolution of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions is a direct result of organizations needing to make better, timely, and more informed decisions to effectively execute corporate strategies.
Although the term 'Business Intelligence' generally invokes images of reporting dashboards, in it's true form, a BI solution is much more than an upgraded reporting interface. The extensive benefits of BI include:
- Fact-based decision making: Critical business decisions are aligned with extensive factual information, greatly improving organizational planning
- Innovation: Integrated corporate data is mined for new organizational insights
- Organizational Performance: Scorecards and performance measures ensure that organizational activities drive your vision and strategy
- Process Improvement: Performance feedback is provided during process execution facilitating continual improvement of transactional service delivery
Although the potential benefits to modern organizations are great, successful BI implementations are still elusive for many organizations. Lessons learned from BI projects show that failures generally come from improperly defined business outcomes, ignoring organizational culture or capability constraints, and moving too quickly into technological solutioning without properly understanding the available organizational information and the best way it can be applied.
At Quartech, our skilled and experienced BI teams can help your organization achieve implementation success by placing the technological solution where it belongs, behind the detailed planning and analysis that properly aligns the technical solution with your organizational systems, processes and direction.
Starting with the organizational outcomes or scorecard priorities outlined in your business case, we evaluate your enterprise infrastructure and business areas to create a preliminary project plan that will be delivered in manageable prioritized phases (or iterations).
With the preliminary project plan in hand, we move into iterations of analysis, design and development. These iterations are always based on your broader business outcomes, but aligned with individual business areas and their technical infrastructure to allow the affected organizational units to engage with the project, provide necessary business insight, review developments, and help drive the supportive operational change. These iterations also have the added benefit of demonstrating real visible progress and business value to the organization throughout the project.
All iterations of information analysis, design and development are validated by the business for their effectiveness in improving business outcomes and then implemented into a business unit for business process re-engineering and refinement. Only when the iteration has proven successful in the target business unit is it integrated across the enterprise.
Quartech’s Business Intelligence consultants have experience working with a number of technologies including Cognos, Business Objects, Microsoft, Oracle, Informatica, and Microstrategy. Contact us today online, or through one of our branch offices to find out more about our business intelligence services and the performance benefits of high-quality readily-available information.