We create good BI applications built on SAP and open source technologies. We cover the whole life cycle of an application, from requirement analysis to productive support.
Business Consulting for BI - We are an experienced team of IT professionals with know-how from many different industries and business areas. We understand the processes in financial accounting, controlling, logistics or human resources. We have experience with operational and strategic reporting, measuring performance of business processes using KPIs and we can use our knowledge from automotive, financial and utility industries. Thanks to these qualities we can communicate with your business department effectively on the same wave length and quickly understand it’s needs, that way helping you to define meaningful business requirements.
IT Consulting - We translate your business requirements and ideas to IT language. Together with you we identify your source systems, propose data flows, describe the needed extractors and interfaces, choose the optimal front-end technology, analyze business logic needed to calculate the desired KPIs. We define and describe the authorizations requirements to guarantee data and information security and separation of duties. We analyze your as-is system landscape, your current infrastructure and development guidelines. We prepare small functional prototypes, simulate the data and present you with interim results to discuss and deepen our mutual understanding of business requirements. We document the results on ongoing bases using modern tools to support agile development.
Development - We develop your new BI application quick and clean. Our developers are state of art in their respective areas, we work with latest tools and technologies. During development we put extreme value on clean design, simplicity and robustness. We continuously confront you with current state of application and seek to involve your IT staff and key users into the development as much as possible. The main goal of the development phase is and always will be a good BI application.
Quality Management - We thoroughly test the implemented functionality ourselves, before applying for user’s acceptance. For your tests we set up a test environment and offer to prepare a testing data set. We can help you to write test scenarios and test cases, both isolated and integrated throughout more business areas. We have experience with tools helping to automate the testing process and can cover technical tests (e.g. stress or performance tests) completely. We put the application to test in respect to performance of both reporting and ETL processes. For data validation we can support you with built in functionalities to reconciliate the data between BI and the source systems, that way enhancing the user acceptance and trust. We can validate that authorizations work properly using special test set. And finally, we can provide you with a set of regression test scenarios, which you can use in the future to validate ongoing changes and further development.
Productive Support and Maintenance - For a BI application developed by us we always offer long term productive support and maintenance at low cost, eliminating the need of knowledge transfer and learning curve of administrators. We provide our services to keep your application up to date, to evolve and adapt to changing needs and challenges. We can also take over your other existing BI applications, analyze them and propose optimization if needed. We support you with regular upgrades or migrations to a new hardware or software platform. We can cover the seamless operation, performing regular tasks and closings and all respective processes from first level support to incident and change management.
Project Management - We have experience with multiple project management methodologies. At the same time, we have learned that successful projects have following factors in common: open and direct communication, business and technical competence, shared vision. At our projects, we usually melt the function of the project leader with the main business consultant, delegating administrative tasks to a project assistant, that way streamlining the information flow between business and development teams.
IT Sourcing - Are you looking for a special resource with a specific skill set to complement your project team? Even though we are mainly focused on delivering working BI applications, we can help you to staff your team, leveraging our broad professional network. Feel free to contact us with your inquiry.
