Business Intelligence

Discovering insight from your company’s information treasure

Presenting the right information at the right time to the right people in your organization is a key factor in making successful business decisions.

This requires effective strategy, design, technology, infrastructure and execution through an expert partner.

Finally, the efficiency of a business intelligence team is measured by its capability to deliver information and suggestive interpretation to management executives to support them in critical and routine decision-making exercises.

In a real life scenario, we refer to the above as Business Intelligence.

Insights from Information

Business Intelligence is a vital solution for companies in a highly volatile and competitive smart environment, in order to gain a significant market share. This enables businesses to make well-informed decisions to drive transformation better return on strategic investments.

CIOs are entrusted with further responsibilities to empower management executives with strategic information at the right time. However, extensive information and highly complex data patterns, generated by multiple external touch points and internal departments, demand teams and tools with specialized capabilities and techniques to uncover hidden opportunities in an ocean of information.

How can organizations tap the potential of business intelligence to steer the course of current decisions, and take necessary precaution to apply corrective actions over past pitfalls?

Opportunities Are Limitless

The purpose of any initiatives has to be streamlined with real-life business challenges and needs:

• Are there reliable techniques to derive manage right data, and produce the right analysis?
• Will BI lower my cost and improve the quality of decision-making?
• Can I develop and maintain these capabilities internally with a competency center?
• Is it possible to minimize my infrastructure investments, yet derive benefits from BI?
• Should I outsource non-core routine processes such as report generation?

The answer to all of these questions is YES.

Application Development

Deriving the true benefit out of best-in-class technologies

Many organizations are striving to gain a significant competitive advantage through out-of-the-box technology solutions. However, certain mismanagement of their application implementation process has proven to have reduce a considerable value out of these initiatives.
With far reaching implications of application development failures, enterprises are focusing on implementation processes equally.

Leaders are keen on proven approach, and agile management with extensive use of pre-built best practice components.

Building it right

Today’s technologies are shaping the way businesses are operated. It is transforming the processes radically to the benefit of management. These technologies offer more control over people, processes and other resources in the value chain.

Traditional strategies will be now replaced by technology-enabled vision to meet the needs of a dynamic market. This is not just business as usual, but competitive battlefield in an unpredictable course of race.

These trends have pushed the industry to relook at the methods used for implementing these path breaking technologies so as to benefit most from each initiatives to it’s best.

Across the management board of major industry leaders, there is a shifts in implementation tactics to be adopted by it’s team.

CIOs are driving radical changes, in the way technology is implemented, to reach out business users for uncovering opportunities in every aspects. With traditional approach diminishing out their sight with lesser results they bring in, innovative processes , yet proven by results, are taking over mainstream development activities.

Untraditional, yet proven

To begin with, unlike aging traditional methods, today’s techniques are;

• Developed based on cross-industry best practices
• Pre-built component to accelerate the development cycle by avoiding reinventions.
• More agile to incorporate changes arising due to market fluctuations using smaller task based coding practice
• Independent of resource locations enable seamless integration of onsite, and remote resources including people, software and other infrastructure.
• Business user friendly approach using functional libraries demanding lesser technical skills
• Transparent and flexible task management systems enabling better governance

Quality Assurance

De-husking application to make IT work

It’s relatively easy to overlook the importance of quality assurance in application development process. However, it is well known among the CIOs that it is at this stage of development life cycle that the applications become actually fit for business needs.
Subject matter expert says “Quality Assurance is the hammering of hot application for shaping it up to make it a business tool”. Another defines it as “If information technology investment is a risk, quality assurance is de-risk”.

Quality Assurance is the answer of “how to make IT work”

Forging the technology

With concerns over large number of technology implementation failures due to mismatch in what it offers and what business expects, has caused an alarm in the strategy of many leading CIOs in the world.

To err is human. It is an accepted fact that application development without deviations are only a dream, yet to come true.

As a result, there is a effort to rectify the implication of these deviations and minimize their impact of business. The process is packaged under a broad area of interest called Quality Assurance.

In many cases, the success story is credited to the development team. But, as a matter of fact, the credentials of quality assurance team fades away due to lack of front-facing activities.

To uncover big opportunities from an application, it is crucial to have an experienced QA team.

The rules have changed

It was till some years back that QA in information technology industry was known as software testing and was considered least strategic in nature.

Today, with arising complexity of applications, especially diverse inter-connected systems and faster development cycle to have competitive edge, has made quality assurance not only challenging, but also a key function of interest to management executives.

Now, it can not only make technology work, but also;

• Can be automated to improve the overall efficiency of the process
• Has pre-built functional and technical template
• Has more specialized streams like business intelligence testing to check data accuracy and data-warehouse productivity

Centre Of Excellence

Building Centre Of Excellence

In the present fluctuating business environment, it is worth to drive business intelligence as central function for critical decision making and operational processes.
With our CoE, customers will benefit significantly by using our highly successful components and reporting frameworks, which bring together the power of Microsoft Reporting Services, Microsoft Solution Framework, and SharePoint into a single framework for managing the entire BI organization.

Recently, it has implemented and currently operating entire QA Center of Excellence for a large customer in the US.

Virtual Center of Excellence

Nuvento provides the infrastructure (technology solutions, hosting), processes, guidelines, best practices and resources acting as a Virtual CoE for it’s customers.

A well set process for establishing Competency Centers internally to replicate Nuvento’s time-tested frameworks, processes and tools to enable it’s department to manage centrally.

To know more about CoE, contact our Subject Matter Expert