From doing business intelligence to creating intelligent business

The promise of data guiding your decisions and improving your organization’s performance is instilled in your mind – and now you’re taking up on it.

That’s great.

Reporting automation and data visualization is the premise of any modern BI solution. That in and of itself helps to save time, money and lessen even the possibility of errors.

However, when you link metrics to key decision-making points in your organization’s processes the data begins to guide your decisions – and help you to improve organization’s performance. From strategy to implementation.

That’s creating intelligent business.

And with all the basics in place you’re set to further your analytics journey by applying advanced analytics and optimization.

How to start your intelligent business journey

At times people talk about data culture. But what is it?

It’s a fancy term for a simple principle: Data is for everyone. Same data can be used by multiple stakeholders in an organizational setting – for multitude of different insights.

When people have access to data everywhere it fosters the culture, providing insights where decisions are made. That benefits entire organization and its performance.

We've prepared a simple guide that helps you to get your first business intelligence project off the ground. 

• What BI tool suits us best?
• What our data can do for us?
• How to automate data processes?
• How to implement data culture?

• Project is delivered in two weeks with 1-3 data sets: Preparing a production-ready BI solution, documentation, plan for production.

• Help to choose future BI tool
• Understand the current business situation based on real data
• Data understanding for the future projects
• New BI solution in production

Challenge

• Without agreed ground rules and monitoring BI environment easily turns into uncontrollable mayhem 
• How to control self-service BI environment that has many players with different skill background
• Regulation set up challenges. 

Solution

• Implement ground rules of developing, publishing and consuming reports
• Monitor report usage and performance
• Monitor taken actions
• Create alerts to ease up administering BI environment

• Manageable BI environment
• Report development best practices
• Easy self-service BI
• Better performance
• Regulation follow up

Administering and monitoring Power BI service

• Environment analysis and review
• Set up monitoring and administering features
• Analyze workspace, data model and report performance
• Analyze on-premise server
• Usage metrics

Results

• Environment documentation
• Set up alerts for administrators
• Plan of actions based on findings
• Follow up of the agreed changes

Tableau Server Health Check

• Set up server monitoring and gathering of historical data
• Analyze server performance
• Analyze extract schedules and performance
• Analyze report and data model performance and usage metrics

Results

• Environment documentation
• Plan of actions based on findings
• Follow up of the agreed changes
• Implementation of maintenance tasks

Challenge

• From comfort zone to discomfort zone
• What is possible with our data
• Where to find resources - skills and time
• Outsourced or in-house development
• How to ensure BI tool implementation and utilization

Solution

• BI solution as a service
• BI consult as a service
• BI training sessions

Results

• BI implementation plan and training
• Production ready solutions
• Solution maintenance and development 
• Improved resource allocation
• Improved BI skills
• Knowledge transfer

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