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Business Intelligence

Did You Know?? Real-time Intelligence = Value

Do you know how easily your organization’s business intelligence can turn into a lost opportunity? Well, it is just a matter of TIME. Intelligence is of value if, and only if it arrives on time.

In today’s hyper-competitive market environment, business intelligence continues to be an area of investment and interest for businesses. The ability to turn raw data into meaningful and useful information that can impact business performance is a powerful value proposition.

Despite the emergence of new devices and software products designed to unite employees in more ways than ever before, the threat of organizational silos is still very real.

Lack of collaboration between individuals and teams in different departments working on similar assignments and projects could ultimately lead to inefficiencies and loss of productivity.

The best-case scenario for this duplication of data analysis is that teams come up with the same result. When individuals or teams produce different numbers this cause disagreements about who had analyzed the ‘correct’ data and which can be fully trusted.

In the grand scale of things, this distorted view of data can be devastating, but there are even more ways that data silos can put your business in danger.

Keeping a pulse on business’ sales, marketing, finances, web analytics, customer service, internal R&D, IT, and more as isolated sources of data will never give a complete picture.

The scary truth is big data doesn’t lead to big insights if you can’t bring it together.

Yet many businesses are only scratching the surface of what’s possible with business intelligence.

To realize the potential of business intelligence and take its value to the next level in your organization, you need a solid understanding of where you are, what you want to achieve, and what’s possible.

From generating reports and charts that depict business performance, to implementing a truly transformative solution that uses powerful advanced analytics to not only predict behaviors and outcomes but to prescribe  recommended courses of actions, business intelligence can be a strategic weapon that significantly impacts your bottom-line.

The next breakthroughs in business intelligence (BI) and analytics will see machine learning and artificial intelligence used to improve data access and data quality, uncover previously hidden insights, suggest analyses, deliver predictive analytics and suggest actions.

BI and analytics vendors are developing “smart” capabilities that will power the next step beyond self-service analytics, helping to further democratize data analysis for business users.

The benefits of business intelligence tools far outweigh the investments they entail. They can help businesses gain valuable insights to affect growth, resolve urgent concerns, collate marketing data more quickly, provide a real-time view of the organization and allow for the anticipation of future outcome using predictive and prescriptive analytics and forecasting.

Self-service Analytics

My World 2030 – Harness data to drive sustainability and corporate responsibility

Over the past couple of months if not years we have seen headline grabbing scandals in various sectors of the economy worldwide.  The public trust is being hugely impacted with regards to the competence of executive leadership, integrity and transparency.

Earning trust requires the utmost attention to demonstrating ethical leadership, responsible (and responsive) business practices, transparency, and a genuine commitment to an organisation’s mission.

Companies are being encouraged to put their increased profit into programs that give back to society in terms of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects More than ever before, there’s growing expectations that organisations will continue to play a very active role in solving social problems such as poverty or discrimination. It’s important that organisations set standards of ethical behaviour for its peers, competition and industry.

So how can data drive sustainability and corporate responsibility? The writing is on the wall!  With the rapidly evolving technology and high velocity and volume of data flooding organisations, it becomes imperative to provide users with an ultimate analytics experience, one with zero discernible latency when interacting with data. By giving users the right tools, they will explore avenues to use data to solve real world problems.

As data becomes more available and analytic literacy more pervasive, it is crucial that companies continue to focus on how their business operations are impacting the value chain, from the farm to the factory to the boardroom.

With the advent of sensors and devices in mobile objects, companies can now leverage spatial data for powerful geospatial analysis for environmental risk assessments. The better the data sets available to assess these risks, the more informed the decisions about adaptation are likely to be.

Energy and Resources give modern society its high standard of living and produce vast quantities of data, from the energy used to the resources needed to make many of these things that help us in business and our everyday lives.

Without a deep understanding that energy is finite and that energy transformations impact not just individuals but also the environment., companies and society at large won’t be able to make informed decisions about the future. With an efficient platform for gaining insights across geographies, products, services, and sectors, companies can maximize downstream profits and minimize upstream costs.

It is the era of data-driven environmental policy-making. Governments can now harness data to effective policy making. Data analytics and visualisation give the opportunity to make the invisible visible, the intangible tangible, and the complex manageable. A data driven government calls for strong leadership and investment. This is highly feasible.  A data driven government would make it easier to identify problems, track trends, highlight policy successes and failures, identify best practices, and optimize the gains from investments in environmental protection. A responsive government would work in close collaboration with businesses, NGOs and the academic community for more conscientious environmental decision-making.

Data alone will not help us achieve the UN SDGs. What we need is strong leadership both from businesses and governments, transparency , integrity and a genuine commitment to the UN 17 SDGs. These combined with modern data analytics will provide collaborative, multilateral solutions to global challenges.

This is My World 2030!!

Self-service Analytics

Track profit, loss with an intuitive CFO dashboard

This CFO dashboard combines complex profit-and-loss data into one page that’s anything but. The top two views provide an overall picture of quarterly and yearly performance over the past three years. The views include key financial measures such as net sales, net profit, and net profit margin. Whether you want to view your numbers according to region, channel, customer segment, or product category, the results are right at your fingertips.

Click on the link below and be amazed by this dashboard . It’s just a click  away!!

https://www.tableau.com/solutions/workbook/cfos-overview-business

 

Happy to have a chat with you to share ideas, discuss opportunities or even prepare a demo for you . Contact us on info@businesslab.mu.

Self-service Analytics

Leveraging data to grow your business

As an HR leader, you need an overview of the different aspects of your company’s biggest asset: your employees. Having an authentic view of the state of your workplace specificities and needs, your workforce planning, is not an easy task.

HR data are disseminated across various systems; Business Lab helps you combine them all and visualize the impact of retention initiatives on employee productivity, or their overall satisfaction. Measure your workforce value with modern HR analytics and drive business performance with interactive dashboards.

Gather and manage all this data in one place while allowing other people to work on it and keep a unique version of the truth in any case.

We are always happy to talk with potential and existing customers! Please get in touch if you desire more information about our company or products and services.