Business Intelligence

It’s decision time, but you find there’s more than one version of the facts

Correct, timely information is the lifeblood of your organization. It’s what you need to make the decisions to guide tactical moves and manage strategic direction. You know the data is there. Over the years your IT team has installed a range of operational tools - for order management, billings and returns, shipping, sales and marketing, among others – which have eased the way the firm works. But, at that all-important meeting to meet a current business challenge, the information reports from your various departments provided conflicting interpretations.

Business Intelligence (BI) refers to the various technologies, applications and business practices that help you overcome this dilemma. It’s an essential layer to your IT system that takes data from disparate sources across your company and integrates them into one version of information that everyone can work from to make better choices. Clean, clear facts. When you need them.

Moreover, you won’t need to worry about the source of this single version of truth. Your investment in BI overcomes a significant issue regarding those various data sources. Over time they have been implemented locally. In piecemeal fashion. The systems work well, have improved business performance, but can’t necessarily exchange information. And, if you wanted to install one new system that handled all those together, your expense would be massive. An independent BI system serves to tie all those systems together, in a financially sensible way, enterprise wide.

Still, implementing a new system for your organization needs to be carried out in a manner suitable for the 21^st century. According to TDWI[1], some “professionals cling to practices of the 1990s” and assume that “using a vendor product for data integration automatically assures architecture.” Some data management firms, stacked only with technology specialists, may not have all the experience to really understand what makes your company tick.

And, that’s where we come in.

First and foremost, we understand that we must understand

Before the infrastructure. Before the architecture. Before the implementation plan. Our approach starts with understanding your organization. That’s your needs, aims, business environment, how you want to use information, and a range of other elements that provide the big picture. And, that’s where our team of multi-disciplinary specialists shines. They certainly understand the technology behind BI, but they approach your specific issues by being far more than that.

Once that base is established, our specialists follow an approach built upon proven principles that contribute value to your team. This makes a winning combination.

First and foremost, a value - effectiveness balance must be achieved. Your costs should be kept to a minimum. Negative impacts on day-to-day operations reduced. And, solutions to existing weaknesses found. Moreover, performance monitoring must be both effective and meaningful, and include ways to build new combinations of information for special opportunities.

Yet, we also strive to go beyond that. We’ll enable effective strategic planning to help you find ways to drive new marketing campaigns. Improve the manner in which knowledge is shared. And, at long last, you’ll have at your disposal clean information for applications that you might not even envisage today.

Data management and proper governance guides action towards your goals

We’re committed to helping you achieve your business goals through BI. Not following an approach based on outmoded thinking, but one that recognizes the dynamics of the field. It comprises a mature, best practice model that helps manage data effectively and ensures the process is governed wisely. Our range of services includes:

- Integrated meta-data architecture
- Global decision architecture
- Tailor-made interface development
- ETL development and architecture
- Data access tool implementation
- Decision portal implementation
- Software and package version updates
- Star schema modeling
- Application support
- OLAP modeling
- Software selection studies
- Project management
- Training

Larochelle Consulting Group is the partner that helps you get key performance indicators

Your organization is essentially loaded with data that can be transformed into information useful for making decisions. You can have it. Here. Now.

To get there we’ll bring our understanding of the new tendencies in BI and a value-added methodology to get intelligent information when you need to make your decisions. And, have it at your fingertips. Moreover, working closely with your team, we’ll help ensure the data is under control, of good quality, shared and complies with standards.

And, that’s good governance.

LAROCHELLE CONSULTING GROUP. PARTNERS FOR GROWTH

[1] The Data Warehouse Institute, one of the leading educational institutes for BI and data warehousing.

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