For companies seeking to exploit new and evolving intelligent business technologies, we:

• Help companies integrate intelligent business applications into the operational business process.
• Help CIOs and architects identify and design an infrastructure that can support an intelligent business.
• Help architects and designers to compare, evaluate, and select new technologies and tools.
• Help implementers incorporate new technologies into their in-house IT environments.

On large complex projects, our technical skills combined with our experience in application and system development can foster communication among the participants, e.g. business analysts, database administrators, programmers and systems analysts.



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Our analysts provide the following strategic consulting services to commercial enterprises and technology vendors.

Stakeholder Executive Level Services

• Stakeholder business strategy review and creation
• Stakeholder corporate performance management strategy review and creation
• Stakeholder core business process reviews
• Stakeholder executive technology briefings
• IT strategy review and roadmap creation

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Services

• Executive engagement – CPM and business strategy
• CPM strategy, methodologies and technical architecture
• CPM system requirements and readiness review
• CPM business case specification
• CPM system review, maturity assessment and roadmap
• CPM system technology assessment, evaluation and selection
• CPM system design and implementation (scorecard, KPI dashboards, budgeting, planning)
• Integration of CPM and BI
• Operational performance management
• CPM implementation project management

Business Intelligence (BI) Services

• Executive engagement – BI and business strategy
• BI strategy and technical architecture
• BI system requirements and readiness review
• BI system return on investment - business case specification
• BI system review, maturity assessment and roadmap
• BI system technology assessment, evaluation and selection
• BI competency centre set-up (BICC)
• BI system design, project management and implementation
• Mobile BI strategy
• Data management for BI systems
• Mergers and acquisition – merging and integration of multiple BI systems
• Operational BI – strategy, design and implementation
• Complex event processing (CEP) and real-time decision services
• Social and collaborative BI – workspaces, live communication, tagging and sharing BI content
• Vertical industry BI – Insurance, Logistics, Telecoms, Banking, Retail, Airlines, Manufacturing
• BI implementation project management

Data Management Services

• Enterprise data governance strategy
• Data governance organisational structure, processes and policies
• Data governance requirements
• Technical architecture for trusted data
• Enterprise data governance implementation – methodology & project management
• Enterprise Information Management (EIM) review, maturity assessment & roadmap
• EIM technology assessment, evaluation and selection
• Enterprise metadata management strategy
• Enterprise data quality strategy & DQ firewall implementation
• Data Virtualisation Strategy & Implementation
• Information Protection Strategy and Implementation Methodology
• Information Lifecycle Management Strategy & Implementation
• Master data management (MDM) strategy & methodology
• MDM requirements & readiness review
• MDM review, maturity assessment & roadmap
• MDM technology assessment, evaluation and selection
• MDM implementation project management

Smart Business Services

• Smart business integration readiness review Smart business enterprise architecture design and specification
• Smart business integration technology assessment, evaluation and selection
• Smart business integration roadmap
• Integration of BI with processes
• Integration of BI with collaboration and social computing
• Integration of BI with portals and mobile devices
• Integration of BI and master data management
• Integration of BI with SOA
• Role based information delivery strategy
• BI Mash-ups
• Operational performance management

 

For vendors who develop and market intelligent business products, we: 

• Work with product designers and architects on the design of new products. This may involve education about related products and technologies, research and analysis of competitive or synergistic products, conducting and participating in focus groups, group brainstorming sessions, and creating new product designs and specifications.
• Support product managers or marketing managers with competitive analysis and product positioning. This usually involves research, analysis, writing reports or papers for internal use, and presenting our findings.
• Assist product marketing managers with the technical aspects of marketing. This may involve writing press articles or white papers, and developing and presenting keynote presentations at user groups and conferences, or at marketing seminars.

IT Research Services

Software competitive product analysis and individual product evaluations

• BI technologies
• Data Warehouse Appliances and DBMSs
• Performance Management technologies
• Master Data Management technologies
• Business Integration technologies
• Technology research briefs
• Usage and Requirements Surveys
• Technology white papers
• Web Seminars
• Blogs