Business & Operational Intelligence

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.

Overview

Data is critical to the effectiveness and efficiency of today’s businesses. When decision makers have access to linked, integrated information - at the moment they need it - they can respond to changes quickly and make decisions that drive business performance and optimization. With meaningful insights into operations, sales, services and customers, business leaders can streamline their costs, focus limited resources on their most profitable customers and products, optimize up-time, increase profits and achieve other key business goals.

Yet, with data frequently stored in multiple, disparate sources, translating data into meaningful information involves significant business and technical complexities that many companies cannot manage alone. To achieve actionable intelligence, you need a partner that understands the business, functional and technical aspects of a solution - and one that is committed to your success.

With 16 years of experience, Rolta TUSC helps organizations plan, prioritize, design, implement and deploy business intelligence (BI) solutions at both the enterprise and departmental level. Our comprehensive array of services ensures that we have a business intelligence solution to successfully address your most pressing business challenges.

Offerings

BI Strategy & Roadmap - Determining where and how to begin your business intelligence efforts and ensuring enterprise-wide buy-in are critical to ultimate success. Our BI Strategy & Roadmap offering focuses on understanding strategic business goals and developing a roadmap with phased deliverables that will align business strategy to BI capabilities. The BI Roadmap reviews current technology and application environments, considers industry trends and directions and defines a forward-looking vision for a BI environment. It identifies a series of foundation projects and BI projects, including quick-win, high-ROI efforts which jump-start your BI initiatives and drive early user adoption.

Operational BI Solutions - Operational BI Solutions from Rolta TUSC are dynamic business intelligence solutions that drive key business results. While ERP BI solutions are focused on analyzing and optimizing financial, procurement, HR and other back-office results, Operational BI Solutions are centered on core front-line strategies and objectives. Our Operational BI Solutions integrate multiple, disparate data sources to provide both at-a-glance and drill-to-detail insight into plant-wide and/or enterprise-wide performance. By implementing Rolta TUSC Operational BI solutions, industrial firms can maximize up-time, minimize costly disruptions and optimize market pricing - resulting in millions of dollars in savings - all while addressing health, safety and environmental concerns.

BI Application Deployment (ERP BI Solutions) - All firms face challenges such as increasing cash flow, maximizing profitability, controlling spending and optimizing supply chain. Rolta TUSC’s expertise in implementing the new wave of pre-built BI Applications allows customers to more quickly realize their goal of deploying pervasive role-based dashboards throughout their enterprise. Rolta TUSC employs a comprehensive approach to implementing BI Applications driven by our customers’ unique business requirements. We ensure that the final deployment leverages the functionality provided by the application, while extending it to address customers’ most pressing needs.

Data Warehousing & ETL - With information and key business processes trapped in system silos, the typical organization spends more time immersed in information gathering activities than executing on business strategy. Rolta TUSC provides the capabilities and best practices required to source, model, architect and build an enterprise data management foundation. By providing access to consolidated, uniform data, Rolta TUSC’s data management solutions enable companies to reduce resource requirements for information gathering activities and focus on driving revenue and market share. Our key industry services include: data modeling, data mart and data warehouse inception, data quality, data governance, metadata management, information delivery and data integration/ETL activities. Through these efforts, we strive to provide the right answers to the right people to drive correct business decisions.

BI Rationalization (Consolidation) - For years, companies have accumulated business intelligence tools based on specific departmental or niche needs and/or through mergers and acquisitions. Although these tools deliver value in the short-term, deploying a multitude of point solutions ultimately creates information silos, hampers company-wide intelligence and adds expense and complexity. Rolta TUSC’s BI Rationalization solutions help companies consolidate their BI tools into a single platform that can meet the demands of the organization as a whole and dramatically reduce BI-related expenses. Our service includes platform selection, data migration and re-building of critical reports on the enterprise platform. We employ an innovative methodology and toolsets that reduce consolidation time by 40-60 percent over traditional approaches.

BI Proof-of-Concept - The Rolta BI Proof-of-Concept (POC) is a rapidly executed project intended to expose a limited number of key performance metrics from a customer’s current data source(s) using an identified BI toolset. Leveraging selected tools, Rolta quickly amalgamates data from independent sources to present a unified, complete view of business performance, including intuitive and meaningful dashboard metrics, formatted reporting and ad-hoc reporting capabilities. Goals of the POC include proving the value and worth of BI projects by demonstrating the immediate ROI they can provide, guiding the client in a BI platform selection process, validating the BI tool-set already selected by the client and/or laying the foundation for future BI project efforts.

BI Competency Center - For the organization committed to maximizing the benefits of BI, Rolta TUSC’s Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) provides the essential guidance and governance required to ensure success. By pairing seasoned BI management professionals with key internal contacts, we lay a solid foundation for initial and long-term BI initiatives and prepare internal staff to assume responsibility for future BI efforts. The Rolta BI Competency Center (BICC) follows the proven approach outlined by leading industry analysts and employed in many sophisticated organizations. It ensures that organizations implementing BI solutions maximize the use of their experiences in data warehouse and BI projects, establishes a central governance body for BI projects and sets and enforces standards.

BI Training - To ensure successful ongoing management and deployment of BI environments, Rolta TUSC provides classroom and client-site training. We offer classes on the Fundamentals of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE), BI Publisher for both Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Applications and introductory and advanced classes for Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2.