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Data Analytics and Business Intelligence for SMBs

Data analytics and BI (business intelligence) can be daunting for SMBs (small and medium sized businesses). Data is being created and collected but often it’s siloed, and reporting systems don’t deliver useful insights.

You may have a highly talented IT team but creating an environment for data driven decision-making demands a very different set of skills. It requires connecting disparate data sources, bringing them together into a unified reporting database, and creating insightful dashboards – all with proper governance. Unilytics can do that for you as an extended BI team; we provide a full range of BI support services or can fill in the gaps where skills are lacking.

Here’s how we can optimize and execute your BI strategy:

1. Build a Plan, Evaluate and Select the Right Tools

• Assess BI needs and identify areas to focus on using UBIR: Unilytics Business Intelligence Roadmap
• Identify KPIs using KPI Karta® to help map out what to measure and how KPIs align with corporate goals and objectives
• Select Tools: cloud vs. on premise, cloud service providers, data preparation, and data visualization tools
• Determine and create suitable data architecture and data model – provides a formal approach to creating and managing the flow of data and how it is processed across an organization’s IT systems and applications
• Create Proof-of-Concept to help justify budget

2. Create an Advanced BI Reporting System

• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for copying data from one or more sources into a destination system which represents the data differently from the source for the purposes of analytics and data visualization
• Data repository: creation of a 3-tier data mart including an analytics layer to improve performance and insight for data visualization tool
• Data visualization: creation using the UD3 (Unilytics Dashboard Design and Development) methodology to ensure optimal results
• Offer broad technology stack: Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, KNIME, SSIS, TimeXtender, Python, R, JavaScript, etc.
• Data Governance: establish and enforce the standards, specifications, and rules for the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data employed in the organization

3. Ongoing Assistance and Support

• Ticketing system to log service requests with a 2-hour response time
• Annual contracts for ongoing BI development and support
• Cost effective solution using MOST (Managed Offshore Services and Training). Cost-effective options for smaller budgets, leveraging our offshore team.