1. Discovering Insight from your companies information capital

Businesses are always looking for ways to improve and sustain profitability. The ability to do this is vital in today's environment of declining revenues and slowing sales growth. To have a strong and successful business, you need to have a clear understanding of the financial impact of your business decisions.

This can be guaranteed only by ensuring that the right people have the right information at the right time in an organization. To internalize this there has to be at place an effective strategy, design, methodology, technology, infrastructure and execution through an expert partner.

The effectiveness of a business intelligence solution is determined by its capability to measure effectiveness of business processes and monitoring the impact of changes and improvements. It should provide complete, relevant insight to employees based on their role at all levels of your organization, not just analysts.

2. Insights from Information

Business Intelligence is a vital solution for enterprises in a highly volatile and competitive smart environment, in order to gain a significant share of the market projection. Such a solution should deliver a full range of capabilities including interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries, proactive intelligence and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, and more. It should also provide complete, relevant insight to everyone in an organization and that, in turn, results in better decisions, informed actions, and more-efficient business processes.

The CIOs of organizations are typically entrusted with responsibilities to empower management executives with strategic information at the right time. However, enormous amount and highly complex data patterns, generated by multiple external touch points and internal departments, demands a team and tools with specialized capability and techniques to uncover hidden opportunities in this ocean of enterprise information.

3. Opportunities are limitless

The Opportunities for leveraging Business Intelligence are truly limitless. According to a recent survey conducted by IDC with 1,072 line-of-business executives and IT professionals in 22 countries, here is a snapshot of today's information management needs:

• The amount of information is growing rapidly - 81% of respondents say the amount of information available with which to make decisions has "grown significantly" or "increased a lot."
• We've reached information overload - 75% percent report feeling overloaded with information, and 40 percent rated their degree of being overwhelmed at 4 on a 5 point scale.
• The need for timely information is more pressing - 1/3rd respondents said access to up-to-date information within seconds or hours is critical to their companies.
• Accessing unstructured information is difficult but increasingly necessary to decision making - 55% percent of the information dealt with in decision making is unstructured—for example, e-mails, documents, or images—yet 2/3rd of respondents use mostly manual methods to search and access such data.
• To manage the avalanches of information, business intelligence tools are becoming more widespread - No longer the sole domain of analytical experts in headquarters, single departments or applications. Business analytics are used by front-line workers, multiple departments and by users outside the organization.

  48% percent of respondents said their front-line staff—call center, bank tellers, and so on—are making more decisions than last year, and 54% said front-line staff had business intelligence solutions to support them. And 24 % of respondents allow customers to access their business intelligence applications, 21 % allow suppliers, and 20 % distributors.

• Timely business intelligence has become mission critical to many enterprises - 64% percent of respondents said that if a business intelligence system was down one day or less, they expected a materially negative impact to business operations. 21% percent said negative results would come from a downtime of one hours or less.

Our Expertise

We have highly qualified BI professionals with:

• Vast BI implementation experience across domains incl. Telecom, HealthCare, Manufacturing, Financial Services & Product Development
• Industry expertise in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), BI Publisher, Informatica
• Numerous Oracle Certifications via OPN (Oracle Partner Network) with in Oracle Business Intelligence – Applications & Foundations.
• Implementation experience and expertise using the Oracle Communications Data Model (OCDM).

Our Service Offerings

We offer a broad range of BI services including:

• BI Process and Performance Diagnostics — We work with the business and technical communities to assess to what level, an organization is benefiting from its current usage of BI. This assessment focuses on four major areas, People, Process, Information, and Technology. A current-state vs. future-state gap analysis then delivers specific and prioritized improvement initiatives based on business value.These form the basis of a comprehensive BI improvement strategy
• BI Analyics and Reporting Strategy — Unfortunately, the pressures of modern business force organizations to produce analytics and reports based on an immediate tactical needs as opposed to providing information based on a predefined reporting strategy. Speridian collaborates with an organizations business units to identify an qualify key metrics and business drivers that from the foundation from which subsequent analytics and reports designed. In this way, information is provided to end users based on understood business value, optimizing information usage and efficiency.
• Siebel Reporting and Analytics Development — Siebel Reporting and Analytics Development — Speridian brings significant expertise in the implementation, customization, and extension of Oracle's prebuilt BI Applications. These products offer preconfigured data models, ETL, and reporting capabilities and significantly reduce an organizations return-on-investment and end user delivery timeframe for BI functionality. In particular,
• Custom BI Implementation — Often organizations have unique requirements that can only be met through custom developed solutions. Speridian has deep expertise in delivering these type of custom implementations. Using the flexibility of the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) development lifecycle we have provided individualized solutions to customers in a variety of industries.
• Federated Data Warehouse Development — Harnessing the power of the OBIEE Common Information Model (CIM), Speridian, is able to develop a federated BI solution that does not require a new stand-alone analytical database. Legacy data stores are accessed using a heterogeneous query model that allows a single user query to span multiple data sources.

• Oracle Communications Data Model Implementation — Oracle has chosen Speridian as a premier implementation partner for the Oracle Communications Data Model (OCDM). With hundreds of tables, this data model provides a comprehensive information foundation for today’s complex communications business environment, More information can be found in our OCDM whitepaper available here.

Our Differentiators

• Oracle Unified Method (OUM) as a methodology for BI Deliverables.

  We use the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) as our standard Methodology for BI solutions implementation & delivery.

  The Oracle Unified Method (OUM) is Oracle’s standards based method that enables the entire Enterprise Information Technology (IT) lifecycle. It provides an implementation approach that is rapid, broadly adaptive, and business focused. It includes a comprehensive project and program management framework and materials to support Oracle's growing focus on enterprise-level IT strategy, architecture, and governance.

• In-house research on customization of OBIEE Applications

  We leverage our deep domain knowledge and industry expertise in In-house research work for advanced client driven customizations of OBIEE Applications across domains incl. Telecom, HealthCare, Sales, Services, Case Management Analytics etc to benefit our customers.

Why Oracle?

Oracle provides the most complete, open, and integrated business intelligence solution on the market today. Oracle's complete range of best in class BI capabilities includes enterprise reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, dashboards, and scorecards. Users are presented with a wide spectrum of rich visualization options, embedded search, collaboration, mobile access, Microsoft Office integration, and the ability to initiate actions directly from their dashboards. Oracl's BI Foundation is augmented with a comprehensive portfolio of packaged BI and Performance Management applications. Oracle's open BI foundation integrates with heterogeneous middleware and infrastructure environments, and provides universal access to all enterprise data types, including relational, OLAP, and unstructured data sources. All Oracle BI products are integrated with common metadata, security, clustering, administration services, query request generation and optimized data access services.

Oracle is recognized by IDC as the #1 vendor in business analytics and is positioned as a Leader in Gartner's BI Platform Magic Quadrant.

Why OBIEE?

Oracle BI EE (Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) is a market leading BI platform that delivers the full range of BI capabilities on next generation architecture. OBIEE forms the corner stone of Oracle's BI strategy today.

It offers several advantages over other BI platforms including:

• OBIEE can be used to develop full featured interactive dashboards, and reports.
• It provides a scalable architecture that can plug into an existing BI deployment.
• It can produce reports from several data sources—flat files, relational and multidimensional cubes.
• OBIEE includes unique features not readily available in other BI platforms such as disconnected analytics and analytic workflows.
• OBIEE uses Oracle's proprietary FUSION work frame to integrate with disparate technologies such as BI Publisher reporting engine, MapViewer, Oracle Identity Management etc.

Only from Oracle

• A Common Enterprise Information Model that enables user self-service and ensures consistent, accurate information by allowing you to model once and deploy anywhere.
• The most complete range Business Intelligence tools and technologies, including best in class products for query and analysis, enterprise reporting, dashboards, and scorecards, built on an open, highly scalable, architecturally unified technology foundation.
• The market leading OLAP server that enables rapid modeling of alternative scenarios and streamlines the management reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis process.
• A real-time decision solution that increases customer satisfaction and profitability by optimizing customer experiences at the point of interaction.
• A comprehensive range of business intelligence and performance management applications.