Empowering performance through business intelligence
Most organisations run a variety of business systems, storing data in different formats, databases, and locations. The challenge of business intelligence is to combine the information from those databases, analyse it and turn it into actionable insights.
Our approach is to start with a comprehensive analysis of your business, its processes, systems and data, and your existing and future requirements. This way we ensure that we get you the right information, at the right time, to make better decisions.
Data management
One of our core skills is our ability to understand your data sets, extract it, no matter how or where it is stored, and use it to inform management information.
We specialise in delivering an in-depth understanding of the potential locked within your data. By working closely with you to understand your operational processes, we can extract exceptionally useful analysis from relatively low level data.
By combining data from your smaller or older systems, we can retrieve the modern management insights you need without having to replace them. This saves you money, eliminates disruption and removes the risks associated with a major systems overhaul.
Analysis
This is where the ‘magic’ happens - the data modelling which reshapes the data. We transform and analyse it to provide information which answers your critical questions about business performance.
For example, we can build a history of business information from systems, such as Salesforce or an ERP, that don’t necessarily record history. These systems give you a snapshot of where your business is right now. We use the data generated to give you oversight of how things were in the past, how they have changed over time, and the trends that forecast the future.
It is during the analysis stage where our commitment to fully and truly understanding your business requirements pays off: it enables us to deliver a better solution tailored to your precise needs.
Presentation
For presenting business intelligence information, we recommend Microsoft’s Power BI service.
It is easy to use, familiar to most users, and almost effortless for end users to access within Office 365 applications. It provides high quality graphics and visuals which are impactful and easy to understand.
Another crucial advantage of Power BI is the in-built data warehouse, which is remarkably cost effective.
However, we also work with a wide variety of solutions - and for many clients we simply present their business intelligence within Microsoft Excel. Where we can, we deliver the analysis is such a way that users can slice and dice their data themselves meaning that they can solve multiple problems without any further outside help.
Unlocking your data and turning it into insight
By taking your data from the various silos across your business, analysing and reshaping it to answer your core questions, we deliver the insight your teams need to improve and transform businesses processes and performance.
What our customers say:
“We have an ERP system which is not very user friendly when it comes to getting out good data. We struggled with it for years until we called in Bredon West.
The first thing they did was set up a live running system showing every person, what job they are on, the time of completion, all those sort of things. They created reports showing what we are spending, who is placing the work with us, all the stuff you need to produce a good budget and know where you are with profit and loss.
Now we have live screens for arrivals and departures - showing what new work is coming into the business, what is due to go out and when, how much we are spending.
When we first introduced the ERP system we were fairly blind, but now I have data coming out of my ears. And it is all good data, which is the most important thing.
Bredon West is a professional outfit, always available at the end of the phone and they go out of their way to support their customers. I can’t recommend them highly enough.”
SA Manufacturing