Business Intelligence Consulting - Analysis Team, Inc.

The Role of Business Intelligence

Creating a Business Intelligence Strategy

Business Intelligence is a process for managing business.It is neither technology nor consulting. The practice of Business Intelligence enables alignment between strategic, tactical, and operational performance management processes, as well as across functional departments.

Supported by technology, effective Business Intelligence provides the information needed for managers to make decisions that improve financial results, while ensuring consistency with corporate strategy:

Enables discoveryof opportunities for increasing efficiency, enhancing profit, and improving customer satisfaction

Builds uniform assumptions, relevant financial drivers and a more collaborative approach into the planning process

Disseminates "One Version of the Truth" (while allowing for multiple perspectives)

Calculates key performance indicators and measures progress toward business goals

Reduces business risk by improving financial visibility and control

Enhances IT support of corporate objectives by better leveraging data and information technology assets

Streamlines and automates performance management processes

Our Assessment and Strategy services are the first steps in a Business Intelligence project life cycle.A well considered strategy acts as a framework for achieving the maximum return from Business Intelligence practices and technologies. It identifies and prioritizes opportunities according to payback potential and overall strategic fit.

The focus of our Business Intelligence Assessment and Strategy service is to understand and prioritize your company’s information requirements and provide a flexible platform for adapting to changes in the business. The result is a roadmap for long-term Business Intelligence implementation that addresses the aspects of business processes, information, technology and organizational readiness.

Our process is rigorous, disciplined and highly effective:

1. Outline and gain alignmenton business objectives

2. Understand current gapsbetween information accessibility and business processes

3. Identify ways to streamline processesand deliver the information that supports the processes

4. Recommend the technologiesthat will most effectively support your analysis, reporting and planning objectives and are compatible with your existing systems and budget

5. Guide your staffthrough objective software evaluation and proofs-of-concept

6. Equip youwith a multi-faceted Business Intelligence implementation roadmap that:

• Addresses your company’s specific business information requirements

• Provides a flexible platform for adapting Business Intelligence to changes in the business

• Delivers a framework for evaluating and prioritizing specific projects based on their impact to the business

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