BI Proof-of-Concept

Insights Library
- Overcoming the ERP Blues with Actionable IntelligenceWebinar - Can you readily identify your most profitable customers, products and channels? Would you know if you had issues with employee turnover and retention? Are you able to leverage enterprise-wide volume spending with your suppliers for greater discounts? If you've implemented an ERP system without incorporating business intelligence, the answer to these questions may well be "no." We'll show you how you can give executives and line-of-business users ongoing visibility into critical data locked within your ERP system and beat the "ERP blues."
- Targeting High-Value Needs using a BI RoadmapWebinar - Successfully orchestrating an enterprise-wide BI initiative is a significant undertaking, particularly when your effort encompasses multiple departments, locations and possibly even countries. How do you decide where to begin such a massive effort and which projects to tackle first? How can you accurately forecast and budget for what may be a multi-year project? How do you manage it all while running your business? During this Web briefing, we'll explore how building a roadmap that incorporates business-level impact analysis can be a critical step to achieving early strategic wins, avoiding pitfalls and ensuring continued BI success. You'll learn best practices for building a successful plan that mitigates risk, lowers costs and secures buy-in across the enterprise.
- Kick-Starting Your BI Efforts with a Quick WinWebinar - In the midst of this economy, you may wonder how you'll ever have the budget to pursue enterprise-wide BI. Or perhaps you've initiated a BI effort in the past only to have your project stall before completion. Harnessing business intelligence quickly and cost-effectively isn't an impossible dream, but it does require proven tools and sound methodologies. This Web briefing will explore critical success factors and technology approaches you can use to achieve quick, cost-effective wins for the business while laying the foundation for future enterprise-wide efforts.
- Critical Operational Intelligence WILL Improve Production Reliability - A Case Study in SavingsWebinar - This Web briefing will explore a dramatic case study demonstrating how BI was used to improve production reliability and minimize revenue disruption within a process manufacturing environment. Not only has critical operational intelligence saved the manufacturer millions in costs the first year alone, it has also eliminated unplanned shutdowns. We'll discuss the critical data sources that were united to achieve these benefits, best practices for implementation, how the manufacturer is using its BI system in daily practice and how your organization can achieve similar bottom-line results.

Executive View

Top Level Objectives

Savvy executives are always looking for ways to obtain more information about their business and make strategic decisions to improve performance. Regularly inundated with messages about new reporting and analytic tools that can theoretically meet “all their needs,” how can companies make an informed decision about what tools and processes make sense for them? Obtaining third-party research, attending conferences and listening to salesmen only goes so far.

By engaging Rolta to implement a BI proof-of-concept, executives are able to evaluate how different reporting tools can meet critical information needs. They can then make an informed, confident decision in a BI tool and partner with Rolta to craft a full-scale solution.

Solution - Innovation

Rolta’s proof of concept offering provides executives with a true understanding of how technical tools, along with Rolta skills and experience, can improve access to information about their business.

We leverage leading software, such as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE+), which can quickly amalgamate data from independent sources to present a unified, complete view of business performance, including intuitive and meaningful dashboard metrics, formatted reporting and ad-hoc reporting capabilities.

Advantage - Insight

A BI proof-of-concept allows a business area or issue to be viewed and analyzed in new and different ways. This analysis can uncover trends, correlations or anomalies that were not previously available.

Benefit - Impact

Following completion of a fast-paced proof-of-concept, organizations can move forward with their Business Intelligence efforts, confident that the selected technology, as implemented by Rolta, will deliver the insight they have been seeking.

Management View

Business Objectives

Many organizations have difficulty understanding what business intelligence (BI) is and how it can realistically help them save and make more money. In some instances, a BI tool already exists in-house, but it is built on aging, limited technology. Users may be unaware that vastly improved solutions exist.

By quickly demonstrating a toolset that enables key performance indicators and trends to be viewed, analyzed and acted on, Rolta’s proof-of-concept enables organizations to witness BI in action. With an understanding of the technical capabilities of the technology and with the help of a partner like Rolta, the business can move forward with a world-class technical infrastructure and focus on improving their business operations.

Solution

After selecting a relevant business area or concept, we quickly develop dashboards and reports, enabling users to easily visualize information and provide for intuitive analysis. We recognize that getting information into the hands of the end-users quickly is paramount. That’s why our BI proof-of-concept can be executed in days or weeks. Not only does this rapid delivery allow the client to gain trust in Rolta and the selected technology, but it builds momentum for resulting BI projects.

Approach

In executing a proof-of-concept, we work with clients to identify a key business area that is struggling to quickly and accurately report information and negatively impacting decision-making. We then identify all relevant data sources required to truly understand the business issue.

Business Value

Many customers cannot envision what a BI solution would provide to their organization. The BI Proof-of-Concept provides them a clear vision of the capabilities of the BI platform while also giving them guidance as to the kinds of impactful insights that a truly innovative BI solution can provide. Armed with this vision, executives have the confidence to invest in BI solutions which, when deployed, can ultimately enable more effective and efficient decision making. In addition, with the POC in-hand, leaders are immediately able to achieve insights into the key problem area focused on during the proof-of-concept. Key business problems can be addressed using the insights from the POC itself.

BI Proof-of-Concept

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