Business Intelligence
In today's global environment, managing and effectively using your company's data is imperative in order to stay competitive and stay in business. Your enterprise data and its analyses can be crucial components in your strategy to derive revenue growth, reduce costs, identify new business opportunities or respond to competitive threats. Dotsys specializes in the entire life-cycle of Data Management and Business Intelligence. These services focus on capturing, standardizing and utilizing your important company data that is imperative for everyday decisions along with managing crucial strategic goals.
Dotsys brings over few years of corporate experience and hundreds of person-years of individual experience in Data Management and Business Intelligence by providing proven solutions that adapt to your company's specific needs for business intelligence. Our business-driven approach focuses on an organization's company-wide data in order to uncover key business opportunities. Dotsys Business Intelligence Services integrate the best-of-breed technology from leading technology vendors with our proven methodologies to provide a unique solution that fits your company's business and technical requirements.
Whether your company wants to capture important business intelligence but never has, or tried a data integration solution but is not satisfied, Dotsys Business Intelligence Services is the answer. A study by IBM revealed that only 2% to 4% of data stored in OLTP, ERP, CRM and various other systems are utilized by a typical company. Dotsys enables your company to transform this valuable data into accurate, consistent, actionable information that is accessible to the right people at the right time and through their delivery platform of choice.
1.1 BI Assessment
The overall success of your company's business intelligence (BI) strategy can be challenged by poorly documented or misunderstood data, along with varying requirement needs from internal and external users. Dotsys BI Assessment Services provide a low-cost examination of all key aspects of your organization that could influence the overall success of your BI strategy. Both long-term and short-term benefits are gained from conducting a BI assessment by.
ø Obtaining a quick and low-cost validation that your potential or existing BI solution is accurate for your business and technical environment
ø Identifying weaknesses, roadblocks and skill-gaps to a successful BI solution, and assisting in the development of contingency plans
ø Improving the chances for long-term ROI by identifying business opportunities and goals before the project is launched
ø Increasing awareness and support for your BI initiative from key stakeholders
ø Discovering the use and redundancies of your company's BI information to pave the way for fundamental organization and business process improvements
Dotsys Solutions uses a 3-track methodology to conduct BI Assessments to ensure that we achieve a successful outcome.
1.2 BI Migration
Business Intelligence tools such as Cognos, Business Objects, OBIEE and SAS go through generational changes in their efforts to leapfrog each other. Such changes can be challenging to understand in terms of their implications to your existing BI environments and investments.
Dotsys educates clients on the underlying technology changes and advises them on migration paths to newer technology versions or even to different BI platforms. Our BI Migration services are deployed in three phases.
The Planning Phase consists of an initial briefing session to identify resources, understand migration objective, set expectations, and scope and collect documentation.
The Analysis Phase provides an assessment of your environment that includes the existing performance and capacity of your infrastructure and architecture, along with data migration objects. This phase provides recommendations and go-forward strategies that identify options to achieve your business objectives.
The Implementation Phase uses Dotsys' methodology - TRIMtm - that features proven tools, guidelines, templates, techniques, and role definitions for the activities, tasks, and deliverables in each of the remaining phases. Dotsys has developed different implementation roadmaps that align with the configuration and deployment procedures that are necessary for the product line your company selects.
1.3 BI Performance Management
Business enterprises prosper or fail according to the sophistication and speed of their responsiveness to changing market conditions. In this environment, organizations demand faster information synthesis and more sophisticated analysis. The need for Business Intelligence thus applies universally throughout the organization. Business Intelligence solutions play a critical role in proactively responding to competitive market conditions and coalescing operational execution with high-level corporate strategy.
Business Intelligence systems provide the underlying analytical engine by focusing on the access and delivery of business information to end-users. The right data warehouse and decision support blueprint will:
Maximize the Value of existing Technology Resources
Access Vital Data needed to make Strategic Decisions
Transform Data into Actionable Information
Improve the Accuracy and Timeliness of Business and Customer Data
Eliminate Redundancies to improve Efficiencies
Discover New Data Relationships and Strategic Information using Data Mining Technologies
Whether we're helping a company use data warehousing to deliver better customer service or implementing an Executive Dashboard in order to help senior management keep an eye on Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Dotsys is committed to taking your ideas from vision to implementation.
Reporting and Analysis
Reporting and analysis provide a wide range of advantages and opportunities for organizations. Dotsys' reporting services provides you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single platform for a variety of benefits.
Many companies find that they have many transaction systems generating data, but are unable to turn their most valuable data into actionable information. Dotsys will enable client staffs to easily publish reports and conduct analysis based on critical information, which will improve decision making and allow easy and constant monitoring of financial and service deliver performance.
Dotsys' reporting and analysis service will enable you to:
Perform cross-production and other trending analyses Distribute reports to multiple locations and in multiple formats View, query, and analyze for collaborative contribution to any report from a single platform Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report Easily create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources
Dashboards
Dashboards allow business managers and decision makers to continuously monitor the progress of their business operations. Dotsys can help business executives translate complex information to presentations that are easily understood using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements. Our dashboard solutions:
Provide a simple yet comprehensive presentation for quick understanding of a business situation
Consolidate data across all departments
Allows for cross-analysis of various data and results
Present real-time performance metrics
Enable decision makers to customize the information to his / her particular requirements.
Scorecards
Scorecards assist business enterprises in improving performance across all sectors of the organization. We understand the difficulty in deploying an application that has an enterprise-wide scope and diverse audience. Dotsys' scorecards service can provide clear performance indicators to enable top executives to quickly make strategic decisions. Scorecards help to quantify, communicate, and actively manage execution of the company's strategic objectives throughout the organization. Dotsys helps our clients put strategic objectives into practice by defining and monitoring a key set of performance measurements. By setting goals for each measurement, an organization can understand and quantify its progress toward achieve its objectives. Dotsys can help you develop scorecards that can:
Communicate strategic goals clearly and constantly across all departments
Identify key areas that needs work for further business success
Illustrate relationships between departments and systems
Manage data across all departments and applications
Build metrics for better understanding of business situations
Summarize data into clear and concise performance indicators
Dotsys consultants will lead your staff through each of the necessary steps to effectively utilize the value of scorecards:
Define strategic measurements
Identify data sources
Design and implement technical and data architectures
Select a balanced scorecard application
Implement and rollout the application to the client staff
Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
Our planning / budgeting / forecasting solution will provide detailed reporting capabilities against an organization's financial and cost information and improve the production needs for decision support, analysis, and reporting. Our service includes creating a production report that will serve as a central repository for production related - financial and cost information across different business units. Our solution will support the need for aggregated production cost data for cost-effective analysis and executive decision support as well as detailed historical, product and financial data for strategic planning, forecasting and budgeting. We can help you with getting location accounting systems to upload to single data repository that is accurate and complete.
