Business Intelligence
SMS has extensive experience and capability in delivery of enterprise business intelligence solutions, our capabilities include:
- Business leadership and development of strategy;
- Performance framework implementation;
- Solution definition and design;
- Technology advice and selection;
- Technical design and build;
- Solution Implementation and maintenance.
Business intelligence solutions provide business insights by providing effective leverage of enterprise data assets through enhanced reporting, analytics and data mining capability across and organisation to provide a view across data that is held in multiple systems, often in multiple geographies and with access historical data that can no longer be kept within operational systems.
Business intelligence solutions are the ultimate downstream manifestation of enterprise information, successful business intelligence solutions are characterised by several organisational and technical traits, including:
- An enterprises information culture (Data Governance)
- Clearly defined and understood business KPI’s, dimensions and measures (Data Architecture);
- Understood and trusted data quality (Data Quality)
- Effective data access and performance (data sourcing, data acquisition, integration/transformation, historical content, retrieval speed) (ETL, Data Warehouse)
Business intelligence solutions provide a range of functionality including capability for:
- KPI Dashboard / Scorecard
- Managed Reporting
- Analytics (OLAP)
- Operational Reporting
- Adhoc Reporting
- Data Mining