Business Intelligence Consulting - Analysis Team, Inc.

Overview

Technical Background

Methodology

Our Commitment to You

Founded in 1995, Analysis Team is a consulting firm with a clear mission: To enable clients to easily access information to drive key decisions that directly impact their bottom line. Our services cover both the strategic and tactical levels of Business Intelligence, all with the end goal of delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Business Intelligence has always been, and remains today, our only focus.

Our strategic consulting services help to identify business information needs, prioritize projects based on impact, and provide a practical blueprint for successful Business Intelligence deployment across the client’s organization. Our implementation services deliver customized, automated solutions that link together business information, technology and the decision making process in a way that improves business performance. Business Intelligence solutions we deploy include:

Financial consolidation, reporting and analysis

Product/service profitability reporting and analysis

Operational Business Intelligence such as daily “flash” reporting,
real-time performance indicators and alerts

Budgeting and forecasting systems

Management dashboards and scorecards

Data warehouse and data mart implementation

Our strong technical background is crucial, but our value doesn’t stop there. We are business and technology professionals with a wealth of direct experience in finance, management and information technology. Our entire leadership team had responsibility for the success of people and projects, for large multi-nationals and smaller operations, prior to joining Analysis Team. We believe that our hands-on business experience gives us an edge in quickly bringing tangible Business Intelligence results to your business, such as:

Increasing profitability

Saving time

Reducing risk and minimizing error

Identifying and exploiting new opportunities

Being a small and focused organization, we are able to deliver sizable benefits for our clients:

Flexible, rapid development and implementation that aren’t bogged down by bureaucracy

Significant senior-level involvement in every project

Passionate, consistent attention to each client’s needs and objectives

We are experts in leading On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies, as well as other analysis and planning applications, user interfaces, and process automation tools for integrating and delivering business performance management information.

Our OLAP specialties include:

Oracle/Hyperion Essbase

IBM DB2 OLAP Server

Microsoft Analysis Services

Deployed over your network or the web, the solution interfaces we develop are based on user needs, using tools such as:

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) with Microsoft Excel

Hyperion Web Analysis (Hyperion Analyzer), Hyperion Financial Reporting (Hyperion Reports), and other Hyperion applications

Applix Executive Viewer

We make sure that our solutions work practically and seamlessly. This includes integrating analysis and planning models with source systems and ensuring accuracy in data output. Wherever possible, we automate data flows and processes.

Our approach is practical, efficient and results-oriented:

1. Analyze requirements with continuous focus on business needs

2. Select Business Intelligence technology best suited to business needs and technical requirements

3. Manage projects efficiently, and anticipate rather than react

4. Determine business process improvements yielding the highest impact

5. Design and deploy customized, automated applications that fully leverage data

6. Engage in thorough testing (including data validation and user acceptance)

7. Train solution end users to begin deriving value immediately

8. Train in-house administrators to maintain and update the application

Nearly all of our work comes from repeat business and referrals. We value long-term relationships, and always strive to embody the following values in our engagements:

Our clients’ interests come first. Our advice is objective and driven by our clients’ specific needs, not what software vendors want to sell.

We understand business and how to make technology work. We are well-rounded and forward-thinking consultants, not mere technologists. We understand complex business requirements quickly and translate them into solutions that deliver immediate and long-term benefits.

Our design approach is straightforward. Simplicity in process and application design means a more effective solution and one that is easier to maintain as business needs evolve.

We are cost- and value-conscious. We believe in delivering value to each client for every project, and that is reflected in our project management and billing practices.

We don’t keep knowledge to ourselves. We teach our clients to be self-sufficient in maintaining the applications we deploy, and in developing new applications. Decreased reliance on outside resources means significant future cost savings.


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