At Influential, we have an excellent track record in delivering Business Intelligence (BI) enterprise-wide solutions and we feel this is largely down to how we approach the problem.

Our aim, in every BI project, is to allow as straightforward and easy as possible access to the latest and most accurate company and customer information from the many different data feeds and many different systems, internal and external to the organisation.

We pride ourselves on delivering a user friendly presentation layer where, after training, every user can experience an easily accessible and usable method of displaying the required information coupled with the facility to write ad-hoc reports.

But the key to all successful Business Intelligence solutions is the data.

By analysing the client’s data, understanding what it is used for, how and why it is used and how often it is accessed, we can start to build a view of how best to present your data for quick and easy access.

However in order for to make important business decisions, based on the output from a BI solution, the client to have the confidence in the integrity of the data. We believe that the highest level of data integrity must be achieved and must be verifiable regardless of the number of data feeds, duplicate, mismatched or out of date data items.

If the data quality is not at a sufficient level for the client’s key decision makers to have confidence in the information being presented then what use is the solution.

Our team are experts in sifting through and analysing data and pride ourselves on our ability to develop automatic integrity checking and reporting into every feed if necessary. These activities are nicely complimented by our integration service skills and experience in delivering data warehouse projects.

As regards what software we use to deliver a BI solution; we are fully conversant in 2 industry leading software development environments - Business Objects & Cognos Impromptu/Powerplay – and have experience in interfacing with a variety of databases – ORACLE, SQL server - used for Data Warehousing.

If you would be interested in discussing Business Intelligence with us and how it might be applied to your business please do not hesitate to contact us.