BI Application Deployment

Insights Library
- Overcoming the ERP Blues with Actionable IntelligenceWebinar - Can you readily identify your most profitable customers, products and channels? Would you know if you had issues with employee turnover and retention? Are you able to leverage enterprise-wide volume spending with your suppliers for greater discounts? If you've implemented an ERP system without incorporating business intelligence, the answer to these questions may well be "no." We'll show you how you can give executives and line-of-business users ongoing visibility into critical data locked within your ERP system and beat the "ERP blues."
- Targeting High-Value Needs using a BI RoadmapWebinar - Successfully orchestrating an enterprise-wide BI initiative is a significant undertaking, particularly when your effort encompasses multiple departments, locations and possibly even countries. How do you decide where to begin such a massive effort and which projects to tackle first? How can you accurately forecast and budget for what may be a multi-year project? How do you manage it all while running your business? During this Web briefing, we'll explore how building a roadmap that incorporates business-level impact analysis can be a critical step to achieving early strategic wins, avoiding pitfalls and ensuring continued BI success. You'll learn best practices for building a successful plan that mitigates risk, lowers costs and secures buy-in across the enterprise.
- Kick-Starting Your BI Efforts with a Quick WinWebinar - In the midst of this economy, you may wonder how you'll ever have the budget to pursue enterprise-wide BI. Or perhaps you've initiated a BI effort in the past only to have your project stall before completion. Harnessing business intelligence quickly and cost-effectively isn't an impossible dream, but it does require proven tools and sound methodologies. This Web briefing will explore critical success factors and technology approaches you can use to achieve quick, cost-effective wins for the business while laying the foundation for future enterprise-wide efforts.
- Critical Operational Intelligence WILL Improve Production Reliability - A Case Study in SavingsWebinar - This Web briefing will explore a dramatic case study demonstrating how BI was used to improve production reliability and minimize revenue disruption within a process manufacturing environment. Not only has critical operational intelligence saved the manufacturer millions in costs the first year alone, it has also eliminated unplanned shutdowns. We'll discuss the critical data sources that were united to achieve these benefits, best practices for implementation, how the manufacturer is using its BI system in daily practice and how your organization can achieve similar bottom-line results.

Executive View

Top Level Objectives

Faced with demanding market conditions, executives are seeking to increase both their operational efficiencies and their competitive advantages across all areas of business. Like many organizations, you may find yourself challenged to manage:

Accounting woes, such as lingering accounts receivables and lower margins
Procurement and spending control issues, such as higher costs due to sub-optimal supplier management.
Ineffective and costly supply chain and order management cycles.
Human resource issues as you seek to maximize productivity while limiting staff costs.
Sales and marketing, as you strive to increase win rates and to focus efforts on your most profitability products, services and projects.

To address these challenges, you need high-level ongoing visibility into critical business data. Deploying packaged BI applications, with pre-built data warehouses, ETL programs and data models, can be a cost-effective, rapid way to obtain the intelligence you need at a price you can afford. Yet, they still require skilled implementation.

Rolta’s BI Application Deployment service provides a proven approach to implementing leading pre-built BI Applications focused on financial reporting, procurement and spending, supply chain and order management, human resources, sales and service and project accounting. Leveraging this service, executives can feel confident that these packaged BI Applications will be deployed in their environment in a timely, controlled manner. They are also assured that, when deployed, these applications will be tailored to properly support their most pressing business drivers, giving them the answers they need at their fingertips as they seek to address core business challenges.

Solution - Innovation

What does this SSP provide from an executive perspective?

How is this SSP innovative with respect to its features?

The Rolta BI Application Deployment provides executives with mission-critical information driving the key business challenges they face in a comprehensive, integrated dashboard and reporting solution. Armed with this information, executives can visualize their entire operation’s performance in a timely and efficient manner and can drill down to additional levels of detail as necessary to uncover and solve significant issues in their organizations.

Rolta’s BI Application Deployment approach is focused on deploying critical BI solutions quickly and effectively, while still tailoring solutions to your specific needs. Beginning with a discovery and conference room pilot effort, Rolta ensures that all key stakeholders have input and direction into the resulting solution and that it addresses their most pressing needs. Identifying key business drivers and gaps in current processes and systems ensures a proper, enterprise deployment of BI Applications.

Advantage - Insight

Rolta’s BI Application Deployment solution provides critical insights to business operations across a range of activities, including financial reporting, procurement, spending, supply chain, order management, human resources, sales, services, project accounting and more. With a robust set of dashboards and analytics, and an approach for tailoring these analytic tools to suit specific business needs, Rolta provides the insights required to drive business goals.

Benefit - Impact

Armed with BI Applications deployed by Rolta, customers are able to more quickly visualize their performance and more effectively manage their operations. They are able to base critical decisions on facts, leading to wise, informed decisions, which improve profitability, increase sales win rates, improve cash flow, increase employee retention rates and provide other tangible business benefits.

Management View

Business Objectives

With data trapped in isolated or inaccessible systems across the organization, obtaining the information you need to make smart decisions is often a difficult, time-intensive and manual process. Integrated views of factors that drive key business decisions are not readily available and it is virtually impossible to conduct root-cause analysis.

Pre-built BI applications enable data to be quickly organized, summarized and reported in a single, unified environment that supports many levels of integrated decision analysis. Because best practice dashboards, reports and analytics are pre-built and included with the applications, you can greatly reduce the time required to implement your BI solution, while still meeting core business needs.

BI Application Deployment services from Rolta provide a complete, consistent, capable BI solution in a timely and efficient manner. Using our proven approach, enterprise BI solutions are typically available within weeks or months.

Solution

BI Applications provide a comprehensive set of data, dashboards, reports and analytics, made available to a wide audience. Rolta’s approach ensures that these solutions meet client-specific needs and are rapidly deployed throughout the enterprise.

Rolta’s approach to deploying BI Applications is unique in that it does not focus solely on off-the-shelf implementation of a pre-packaged tool. Recognizing that every business requires some level of BI tool customization to optimize ROI, our approach focuses on your business needs, ensuring that all of your key stakeholders are included in the process and all of your business goals are addressed. Our BI Applications deployments combine the proper balance of speed of deployment and inclusion of customer-specific features and functionality.

Approach

Including your business stakeholders in the up-front discovery and gap analysis phases of our BI Applications Deployment approach is vital to ensuring that the resulting solution addresses all of your business goals. Insights are provided across your enterprise in an integrated dashboard and reporting solution.

Business Value

Reducing multi-month BI solution design and development efforts to multi-week efforts provides significant time and cost savings to our customers. Deploying pre-built solutions requires a much smaller up-front time investment. It ensures cost savings by eliminating initial design and development efforts, but more significantly minimizing costly support and maintenance tasks.

Technical View

Technical Issues

Integrating data from myriad tables in supporting applications into a coherent BI solution is a time-consuming and daunting effort for many IT teams. Particularly in today’s economy, lack of time and resources to properly model and design analytic solutions prevents many companies from deploying the critical enterprise BI solutions they need to provide executives the right information at the right level at the right time.

Deploying a pre-packaged BI Application can eliminate the time-to-market concerns of typical BI and DW projects. Because these solutions are pre-built using best practices in dashboard design and detailed reporting integration, projects are reduced from months to weeks. Rolta's approach to deploying these applications further ensures that the resulting solution meets all your key business goals and is fully vetted with key stakeholders.

Solution Components

Pre-built BI Applications include pre-modeled Data Marts, pre-built ETL, pre-mapped meta-data and pre-built dashboards and reports. Built leveraging quality BI tools, these solutions meet all demanding users’ interactivity needs. Deployed using Rolta's proven approach, these solutions include allowances for core customizations which may include modifications to existing operational applications, customer-specific extensions to dashboards or reports or the inclusion of additional data sources in the final BI solution.

Implementation

With the same level of detail and discipline we apply to our custom BI development projects, Rolta follows a structured methodology for the deployment of packaged BI Applications. This methodology begins with a discovery process, focused on ascertaining the client’s specific, detailed requirements for the eventual BI solution via needs assessment and gap analysis efforts. To speed deployment, this discovery process is combined with a Conference Room Pilot. This combined effort allows key business and user stakeholders the opportunity to voice their input and ensure their buy-in to the end solution as they are able to see a live, operational version of the BI Applications prior to production roll-out. From this joint stage, a forward looking project plan is produced for the remainder of the BI Applications implementation, including timelines and task definitions for initial production roll-out, specific customizations and additional data source integration.

Following the project definition, Rolta completes the initial production roll-out, allowing employees to begin using the applications, generate feedback and build momentum. Rolta then completes client-specific customizations to ensure that your most critical needs are addressed. Finally, additional data sources are integrated into the BI Applications solution.

How Does it fit and why is it different?

The Rolta BI Application Deployment service provides all levels of the organization with key business intelligence. It does so in a manner that ensures stakeholder acceptance and maximizes the efficiencies of the pre-built applications, while also including the customer-specific extensions and additions necessary to ensure the final solution meets our clients’ most demanding business needs.