GIVE ME A DASHBOARD NOW!
What do YOU want to see on YOUR Dashboard?
Contact:
Samantha Armstrong
email:
samantha.armstrong@eclectic.co.uk
mobile: 079 40 40 60 52
LONDON. GLASGOW. EDINBURGH. ABERDEEN
Eclectic, Abbey Business Centre, St Martin's House16 St Martin's Le Grand London EC1A 4EN
Eclectic
Eclectic is a specialist firm of Business
Intelligence practitioners and Systems
Integration experts, providing
Management Information, Performance
Management and Data Integration
consultancy solutions for both the
commercial and public sectors throughout
the UK.
PARTNERS
SharePoint Portal 2007, Performance Manager, Biz Talk, Proclarity, MS Workflow, Business Scorecard Manager, Infopath SQL Server 2000 & 2005, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, ,Net, Microsoft Office 2007
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition: Answers, Interactive Dashboards, Delivers,
Disconnected Analytics, Briefing Books
Single Sign On, Database Implementation, Support & Upgrades
Business Objects XI Release 2, Dashboards
Data Quality, Data Integrator, Xcelsius, Metadata
Working in partnership on many large clients e.g. NTL, DEFRA
Consultancy Solutions
• Information Management Stratagy
• Architecture Review
• Reporting And Analysis
– Dashboards – Static Reports – Ad-hoc Reports – Drill Down Reports
– Data Profiling/Data Quality – Portals
• Database Services:
– SQL 2000 – SQL 2005 – Oracle
• Business Process & Systems Integration
• Application Development with .NET
• Services for Office 2007
• Reducing the Cost of Communications
• Single Sign On
Eclectic Services
• Strategic Map Development • Information Strategy Analysis • Solutions Requirements Analysis • KPI & Metric Determination
• Management Dashboards • Data Warehouse Architecture • Data Profiling and Cleansing • Data Integration – ETL
• Reporting and Analysis
• Upgrade Strategy, Implementation & Training • Infrastructure Reviews
• Application Specific Solutions • Testing
• On-site & Off-Site Support
• Tailored on site training on Business Objects/Oracle/ Sun
Red Hat/Sybase, Skills Matters – A mobile training centre bought to your offices • Value Added Reseller of Business Objects, Oracle and Microsoft technologies • Software Licence Asset Management Services
Issues Faced by Insurance Organisations
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Availability of data
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Regulatory challenges
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Multiple Distribution Channels
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Contract certainty
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Proliferation of proprittory placing solutioins
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Quailty of service
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Reaching agreement on a single claims process paper-based
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Measurement,
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Better client management
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Improved efficiency
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Faster cash settlement
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Improved service to the client
CUSTOMERS IN ALL VERTICALS
•FINANCE
•INSURANCE
•MEDIA
•OIL & GAS
•PUBLIC SECTOR
•RETAIL
WE ARE DROWNING IN DATA
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets
Access Databases
Access Databases
CRM
Underwriting Claims
Reinsurance
Risk Aggregation
HR
ERP Extenral Feeds Finance
• Data redundancy and inconsistency
• Limited cross-functional analysis
No single version of the truth
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43% of users say they’re not
sure if internal information is
accurate
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77% said bad decisions had
been made because of lack of
relevant information
Source; Business Week study
BI: A Top Priority for the CIO
-3 1 -13 -10 Source, GartnerTechnology Priorities Clearly Reflect the Business Priorities
Top-Ten Technology Priorities
2005 2004 2003
Ranking Business Intelligence applications
Security enhancement tools Mobile workforce enablement Workflow management deployment and integration Enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrades Storage management Voice and data integration over IP Customer relationship management (CRM) Business process integration tools Server virtualization 2006 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 7 5 6 6 5 9 8 2 1 10
DASHBOARDS
Visualize and Understand the Big Picture
Data presented in the right context
“People often say, ‘If only I knew
then, what I know now’, but in many cases they could
have known ‘then’ if they had had access to data that already
existed presented in the ‘right’
context…”
Roy Schulte Vice President, Fellow
Gartner, Inc.
Where did that number come from? Will it meet compliance regulations?
Present Quality Data in Terms People Understand
– Business user autonomy
– Increase productivity & Job Satisfaction
– Data Integrity, Control and Security
Provide visibility across the organization
Ad hoc reporting, query,
and analysis
Dashboards and
visualization
95% of a typical workforce does not understand its organisation’s strategy
90% of organisations fail to execute their strategies
successfuly
70% of organisations do not link middle
management incentives to strategy
Businesses don’t garner insights or make decisions. Businesses don’t close deals or develop new products or find new
efficiencies. People do.
Companies excel when they empower their people. Priorities, organization, motivation, and leadership ready your business for success. But you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities. Companies that do this are poised for success.
The role of software in a people-ready business is to harness information,
enabling people to turn data into insight, transform ideas into action, and turn change into opportunity.