Business Intelligence
Business intelligence provides companies with a critical competitive advantage.
Unfortunately, despite acknowledging the strategic importance and significant investments in business intelligence, many companies find their BI programmes continue to fall short. The common root cause is lack of a methodical, business-driven approach to identify BI needs and manage the BI ecosystem.
A BI programme is an investment akin to your corporate or personal financial portfolio. It is multi-faceted, dynamic, and subject to sometimes unpredictable internal and external pressures. Britehouse SSD (Pty) Ltd’s BI Portfolio service provides a sustainable approach designed to deliver a continuous stream of value-added capabilities that allow you to optimise and capitalise on one of your most strategic assets: your corporate information.
The main driver of Business Intelligence is continuous process improvement and operational excellence.
Five Key components of a BI Strategy:
- Understand business strategies and objectives
- Monitor internal business performance, as well as external industry and economic trends
- Identify business opportunities and needs
- Balance opportunities against available capital, enterprise resources and risk/reward ratios (aka ROI)
- Deploy appropriate business intelligence capabilities to confirm and/or capitalise upon selected opportunities
Six BI Critical Success Factors:
- Measure success
- Get executive support
- Ensure a solid data foundation
- Foster an IT-business partnership
- Promote relevance
- Choose appropriate tools
Enterprise Performance Management
In today’s business environment, you must plan faster, and do more - efficiently and precisely - while complying with regulatory requirements. Everyone in your organisation needs access to the right information at the right time in order to gain a competitive edge and ensure greater control of business operations.
To succeed, you need to close the gap between strategy and operational execution by cascading corporate goals down into department-relevant metrics, ensure accountability, enable intuitive modelling, monitoring, and analysis, and streamline execution of strategy-guided plans.
Business Intelligence
solutions provide comprehensive business intelligence functionality that can empower your users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis. All users - from the high-end analyst to the casual business user - have access to the information they need, with minimal dependence on IT resources and developers.
With these powerful solutions, users throughout your enterprise can access, format, analyze, navigate, and share information across the organisation.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Stakeholders are demanding effective governance, including enterprise risk management, transparency, accountability, and optimized performance. At the same time, globally integrated markets are imposing increasing volumes of regulations. Successful companies address these challenges by proactively managing performance across the enterprise with risk-balanced strategy management, and risk-based controls embedded in business process areas ranging from financial to human resources, and environmental to trade management.
These companies increase visibility across risk and compliance initiatives, and they do so efficiently to minimize the cost of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Achieving effective and efficient operations and reporting requires a unified GRC strategy that guides people, standardizes processes, and integrates technology to embed GRC at every organisational level.
Information Management
solutions provide comprehensive information management functionality that can help you deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data – both structured and unstructured – across your enterprise. These powerful solutions can empower you to provide trusted data for key initiatives such as business transaction processing, business intelligence, data warehousing, data migration, and master data management.
