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BI consultancy

We turn your data into a reliable basis for decision-making.

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Business Intelligence (BI) can provide valuable guidance, as long as the figures and reports are reliable. But which key data are truly conclusive? Which body of data underpins those conclusions? Where will you need to make adjustments? That’s precisely where our BI consultancy comes in: we can provide you with end-to-end support when deploying, developing and utilising your BI landscape – from asking the right questions and KPI-related logics to a sustainable solution you can use every day.

Stable at its core. Bold for the future.

BI consultancy that adds value to your business

Business Intelligence is valuable if the key data are consistent and reports are actually used day to day. That’s why we don’t focus on charts, but on the basics: asking questions, defining KPIs, ensuring data quality and defining clear responsibilities. The result is a BI structure that helps you make decisions, is accepted within the organisation and can be developed further over time.

Making BI technologies usable

BI consultancy: strategy, assessment, reporting & governance

BI strategy consultancy

A successful BI solution doesn’t start with a tool, but by asking the right questions. Part of our BI strategy consulting services involves working together to clarify what information management, specialist departments and operational teams actually require. We then build on this to define relevant KPIs, develop a vision and derive the pre-requisites that need to be met so that Business Intelligence can truly operate reliably within your organisation.

BI assessment

Before reporting and data models grow bigger, it is worth carrying out an as-is analysis. As part of the BI assessment, we evaluate data quality, the system landscape and the organisational requirements. We then highlight what steps would make sense when introducing BI or developing it further.

Data governance consultancy

To be reliable, BI needs clear rules: Which source is regarded as the Single Source of Truth? Who is responsible? What definitions apply to KPIs? We help you determine roles, responsibilities and a practical approach towards governance, so that your key data are always consistent and BI can be used both securely and efficiently.

BI reporting consultancy

Good reporting is understandable, consistent and usable – in management, controlling and in specialist departments. From prototyping and validation to go-live, we help you implement BI reports and develop them further. We do that by communicating the requirements between the specialist department, IT and management, so that outcomes are not simply “built”, but are also accepted and utilised.

Advising about how Power BI can be used

Once the vision, the body of data and any specialist requirements have been defined, we will help you configure your BI solution in a focused way, based on Microsoft Power BI. To do that, we take a look at your existing system landscape and operating model (hybrid or cloud-only) and develop a concept that is both suitable and practical. Power BI is firmly established as a key BI front end. If needed, it can be purposefully expanded using Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Fabric to achieve a scalable and future-proof BI architecture.

Body of data & BI architecture

BI you can rely on requires a body of data that’s robust. We will advise you how to connect and consolidate relevant data sources and develop a structure that fits within your system landscape. This not only includes data model and data warehouse (DWH) considerations, but also semantic models and a clear KPI logic, so that your reporting is not based on single sources, but on a stable foundation.

How we work

How our BI consultancy works

Clarifying needs and objectives

Questions, target groups, KPIs

BI assessment

Readiness, data quality, system landscape

Defining the vision & governance

Single Source of Truth, roles, standards

Implementing & embedding

Body of data, reporting, training, optimisation

Outcomes

What you will get at the end

To enable you to make well-founded decisions and integrate Business Intelligence in a sustainable way, you will typically receive:

  • a specialist BI vision, including KPI definitions and priorities
  • a BI assessment with specific action areas and a list of next steps
  • a governance approach as a baseline for ensuring consistent figures (roles, responsibilities and a Single Source of Truth)
  • recommendations regarding the body of data (integration, data model, optional DWH approach)
  • eine Reporting-Roadmap inklusive Prototyping- & Go-live-Vorgehen

unitop

BI as part of the unitop environment: unitop BI as a data foundation for reporting

Using unitop allows you to put together a Business Intelligence system in a highly targeted way. unitop BI already provides some of the key components of a professional BI environment: data warehouse, BI data models and a data visualisation facility integrated using Microsoft Power BI.

We will help you use unitop BI and develop it further to turn data into a reliable basis for decision making – from BI assessment and data governance (KPIs, roles, and a Single Source of Truth) and a body of data & BI architecture to consultancy on BI reporting and – if useful – selecting suitable BI tools within the Microsoft environment. unitop BI has been designed as a service/environment for SaaS customers and is operated on Microsoft Azure. It can also be accessed via defined data end-points and Microsoft-365 applications.

Contact

Your contact for BI consultancy

Are you looking to realistically assess the potential that BI has to offer, ensure reporting is consistent and create a reliable body of data? If so, we’ll be pleased to advise you.

Christian Blenkers

Christian Blenkers

+49 (0)2151 349 3002 Write email
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