BI Competency Center

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

Implementing business intelligence (BI) throughout the organization often involves a challenging metamorphosis for both business end-users and technologists alike. Realizing the benefits of BI requires a focused approach for managing these changes, continually searching for additional BI opportunities and keeping track of industry trends and solutions. For the organization committed to maximizing the benefits of BI, Rolta TUSC’s Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) provides the essential guidance and governance designed to ensure success.

Solution - Innovation

The Rolta TUSC BI Competency Center has seasoned BI management professionals and senior technical architects to lay a foundation for successful BI initiatives. We educate your staff, enabling them to assume responsibility for the future of BI in your organization. As part of the solution, Rolta TUSC offers an extensive BI toolkit that includes industry-leading “best practices” standards and methodologies proven to enable successful BI initiatives.

Advantage - Insight

Rolta TUSC’s BICC focuses on three key areas:

BI Strategy - The BICC explores situations where BI may provide key benefits and communicates these potential opportunities to the executive audience.
BI Advocacy - The BICC leverages communication and education to facilitate BI adoption throughout the organization.
BI Tactics - The BICC mission includes maintaining a foundation of tools, standards and methodologies that guide current and future BI development projects.

Benefit - Impact

Rolta TUSC’s BI Competency Center ensures that enterprise BI initiatives include all critical components required for success: executive support, focused initiatives with clear ROI goals and the proper talent and technologies to successfully implement the vision. Not only does the BI Competency Center enable the organization to benefit from BI immediately, but it also ensures ongoing success as the client assumes full responsibility for its future direction.

Management View

Business Objectives

Rolta TUSC’s BI Competency Center focuses on key initiatives including:

Managing ongoing BI development projects and ensuring timely and successful deployment - The BI Competency Center recommends that projects be designed with short time scales and manageable scopes. This approach typically results in faster delivery times and may foster user community confidence when undertaking BI projects.
Advocating the use of BI throughout the organization - The BI Competency Center uses education, communication and an “open door” policy to generate interest in BI.
Evaluating BI trends and tools - Business Intelligence is a rapidly changing technology sector. New tools appear with some regularity. The BI Competency Center continually evaluates new tools and trends as related to the organization’s most critical needs.
Mandating the creation of standard processes and methods - Successful BI implementation requires the adoption of standards and methodologies that govern the entirety of the project. The BI Competency Center is responsible for creating and selecting the appropriate suite of BI standards.

Solution

The Rolta TUSC BI Competency Center solution provides a core group of experienced BI professionals to enable the successful adoption of new technologies, manage ongoing initiatives and enable client organizations to explore future opportunities for BI. The BI Competency Center nurtures an ever-expanding understanding of the core business with emphasis placed on those processes that are likely to benefit from BI technologies.

Approach

Technicians exhibit fluency with relevant BI technologies and the ability to successfully bundle a suite of analytic tools and techniques when crafting an overall solution. The BI Competency Center evaluates both the business problem and the technical experience of the primary users when exploring appropriate tools. To empower business and IT resources to fully exploit the selected BI technologies, the BI Competency Center offers extensive user training. The BI Competency Center maintains an information repository that describes data sources and establishes common definitions across the enterprise wherever possible.

Business Value

The BI Competency Center ensures a successful and widespread adoption of BI throughout the enterprise. Internal staff learns to embrace new technologies and become successful BI implementation teams.

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