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With the emergence of big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning, the role of analytics has been elevated to center stage. The winners in the modern world are those who can give all their employees, partners and customers immediate access to the most relevant information. But winning requires more than answering tough questions, understanding the business at every turn, and seizing opportunities before your rivals do. It is also about creating value and ROI with every decision you make.
A strategic approach to analytics will provide the key to unlocking the value in your data – enabling you to gain unprecedented insights, bridge the gap between analysis and business outcomes, and combine the power of big data with analytics to drive business success.
We now have data all in one place with integrated business processes supported and the visibility we need to make important business decisions.
The traditional approach to deliver Business Intelligence is being challenged. BI and analytics solutions are evolving at a rapid pace – with many organizations leveraging modern, agile platforms to create business value. The ability to reason, plan, predict and solve issues with deeper insights from increasingly diverse data sets is opening up a whole new world of opportunity as well as defining new methods and approaches. But to enable such business capacity founded on knowledge and innovation, the following three areas require close attention:
itelligence has helped thousands of customers benefit from the very latest analytics solutions that are powering digital transformation. From business intelligence and advanced analytics to insight from the cloud, we are empowering our customers to improve data quality, lower the cost of data integration and increase data efficiency.
With our analytics and big data expertise, we deliver value quickly using our proven agile approach and solution accelerators to optimize all data-related processes and match the pace of change. As a result, we are able to drive business engagement, develop your business intelligence capabilities, and if necessary, define and deliver the right analytics strategy for you.
DataForBusiness is a tool that gives you answers to how your company is using existing data to further develop the business. In 2017, close to 500 companies have started using this new, tool free of charge. DataForBusiness gives you access to the latest research-based insights, a 360 degree analysis of competencies, potentials and barriers, individual benchmark in regards to performance and your peers, and a clear action plan and access to certified consultants.
Chris Long, Head of Data and BI at Leeds Building Society, talks about itelligence as their preferred partner on their data journey and how they benefit from new BI technologies. itelligence implemented the full SAP BI Suite with SAP HANA and SAP Predictive Analytics capabilities.
Watch Andy Steer, Chief Technology Officer at itelligence UK, discuss the importance of accessing data inside and outside the organization in order to deliver knowledge to the people who need it, when they need it.
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DownloadChristian Schmidt, Global Director of Business Analytics at itelligence, outlines how you can start your analytics journey.
Downloaditelligence supports you from start to finish with your analytics strategy. Beginning with an initial review of your current analytics capabilities, we identify areas where improvements can be made. We then go on to road mapping and planning your strategy based on your needs. Our BI strategy services help organizations break down complex data silos and remove process barriers that prevent business users and IT from working together.
Basing your decisions on accurate, relevant, timely and trusted data is key to being successful. itelligence has a heritage of supporting organizations with data and process governance. We can assist you in mapping, monitoring, and managing your data life cycle with our tried and tested methodology that boosts accuracy and gives you control over your data.
itelligence is committed to designing and delivering technical architectures and platforms to drive success for our customers. Furthermore, our consultants are here to seamlessly guide you through upgrades and migrations and ensure you are able to optimize your existing investment. We can help you develop a successful data and analytics platform, whether that be on premise, in the cloud, as a hybrid, or with a hyper-scale cloud provider.
The role of EPM is to ensure that an organization has a complete view of business performance. This means unifying information from operations, finance and compliance to ensure everyone is linked together in a collaborative manner. itelligence can help you move complex data management and transformation processes into a business planning solution and give financial analysts more time to perform insightful analysis. From standardizing financial processes across organizations to advising on best practice for managing processes and automation, itelligence can help translate business requirements into reality.
Our extensive SAP BusinessObjects capability, global operations, and our open access to a vast pool of SAP BI resources provide the ability for itelligence to flex from the lightest touch through to full managed services during major analytics projects and beyond. We partner with our customers and offer the flexibility and commercial management to meet their business objectives in a dynamic manner. No other partner offers the combination of exclusive SAP BI focus, knowledge and capabilities. We are an SAP Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE) with 24/7 service and the ability to offer agile delivery with a blend of onsite, nearshore and offshore support.
The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and cognitive computing are now in reach of many organizations. Such disruptive innovation can bring a level of automation, electronic monitoring, and sensor-enabled insight that was once inconceivable. itelligence offers a number of services from strategy creation and design thinking to proof of concept and project delivery, to help rapidly introduce analytics projects founded on emerging innovation.
Understanding how your analytics technologies work is key to leveraging the benefits that they offer. Hence, itelligence provides comprehensive training services. We are an authorized SAP Education Partner and train over 2,000 people per year. Just like the solutions we offer, our training services are tailored to your needs. Whether you would like training in SAP BusinessObjects, data warehousing, SAP BPC in the format of public, private, or our other analytics solutions, the choice is yours.
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