Business Intelligence Services & Consulting

As a business intelligence service provider, we deploy BI systems from top market players and open-source solutions, as well as custom BI applications. Proper BI solution helps you to address the challenges of your niche and make the right, well-informed decisions to keep up with the ever-changing economic environment.

BI solutions we work with

By a provider of business intelligence service
IBM Cognos analytics
MS Power BI
QlikView
Qlik Sense
Tableau
Information Builders WebFOCUS
Looker
Watson analytics
SAP BusinessObjects BI
Lumira
Reporting Services
Oracle BI
By open source systems
Grafana
Kibana
Pentaho
Jaspersoft, BIRT
JS frameworks

Challenges you solve with our business intelligence services

Marketing and sales

Well-thought BI systems help to manage current customers and to attract new ones that are 100% within your ICP and target audience. Some enterprise departments really see it as marketing or sales intelligence systems. In these cases, your BI system has a lot of purpose-based features to drive your decision-making practically.

Finances

As a source of actionable insight, BI systems can show you the pitfalls of your current budgeting approach, help to find opportunities for the creation of additional revenue streams or fruitful investment options.

Supply chain

Analyze, track, and monitor each chain of your supply process to optimize stocks, warehouses, logistics and the entire supply management approach. Adding predictive analytics to your BI capabilities will help to make decisions that are truly future-oriented and strategic.

Business and operation processes

Deep cross-department analysis is a key to the formation of seamless business processes. Catch the insights for improvements from the representative data on human resources, repetitive problems or delays, and opportunities to save more time in certain areas of work processes.

Human resources

BI enables you to take your performance management to a completely another level and to organize more effective HR campaigns.
Human resources is the area where business intelligence and emotional intelligence form a perfect match. BI can be enriched with ‘emotional’ data apart from fixed KPIs that can help you to measure not only employee productivity but also genuine satisfaction level.

Your custom use case

As a custom business intelligence provider, we are open to your business challenges and ready to dedicate our expertise and complex problem-solving skills to the creation of business intelligence applications that will help you in decision-making within your unique business ecosystem.

Marketing and sales

Well-thought BI systems help to manage current customers and to attract new ones that are 100% within your ICP and target audience. Some enterprise departments really see it as marketing or sales intelligence systems. In these cases, your BI system has a lot of purpose-based features to drive your decision-making practically.

Finances

As a source of actionable insight, BI systems can show you the pitfalls of your current budgeting approach, help to find opportunities for the creation of additional revenue streams or fruitful investment options.

Supply chain

Analyze, track, and monitor each chain of your supply process to optimize stocks, warehouses, logistics and the entire supply management approach. Adding predictive analytics to your BI capabilities will help to make decisions that are truly future-oriented and strategic.

Business and operation processes

Deep cross-department analysis is a key to the formation of seamless business processes. Catch the insights for improvements from the representative data on human resources, repetitive problems or delays, and opportunities to save more time in certain areas of work processes.

Human resources

BI enables you to take your performance management to a completely another level and to organize more effective HR campaigns.
Human resources is the area where business intelligence and emotional intelligence form a perfect match. BI can be enriched with ‘emotional’ data apart from fixed KPIs that can help you to measure not only employee productivity but also genuine satisfaction level.

Your custom use case

As a custom business intelligence provider, we are open to your business challenges and ready to dedicate our expertise and complex problem-solving skills to the creation of business intelligence applications that will help you in decision-making within your unique business ecosystem.

Try Visual Flow – an open source low to no code ELT tool for your BI project

Visual Flow expertise in business intelligence service

Visual Flow is a subsidiary of IBA Group. When we offer services of business intelligence, we rely on its broad enterprise-level expertise and highly skilled data engineers and scientists.

1

Business intelligence audit

We will audit your existing BI solutions and determine the reasons why the solution does not work as intended: incorrect deployment, unconfigured processes, etc.
We will identify what needs to be improved and how to customize the BI system for your needs.

2

Business intelligence consulting

We’ve had dealings with customers from various industries, so we understand what you may require from a BI system. Our professionals will offer a solution with pre-configured sections and indicators, which you can test.

3

Deployment and evolution

We deploy business intelligence systems, engage with vendors and handle open-source systems.
Thanks to our diverse experience, we have accumulated a lot of knowledge on how companies use BI systems, and now we share this knowledge (in compliance with NDA). Our experts can determine whether the deployment will be successful in the existing conditions and what needs to be done to make the project successful.

4

Migration

We transfer data to a new BI system and help companies build a data-driven approach to management strategy.
We work with Qlik, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Pentaho, IBM Cognos Analytics, etc.

Using Visual Flow

Business Intelligence Delivery model

1
Preliminary call (discovery) sessions
  • Analyze customers’ requirements, needs and pain-points
  • Analyze data volumes and infrastructure
  • Determine suitable BI solution
2
Software deployment and setting up
  • Deploy BI product
  • Set up environment
  • Licensing
  • Install and set up BI framework
  • Create and set up connections to data sources
3
Data loading
  • Write scripts for data loading and data preparation
4
BI application configuration
  • Technical configuration
  • Set up access rights
  • Design user interface
  • Create variables and switch groups
  • Create analytical objects
5
Testing
  • Verify data
  • Conduct functional testing
6
Documentation
  • Сreate user guide on how to work with BI application
  • Prepare application documentation
7
Administration
  • Deploy BI application via administration system
  • Set up application
  • Refresh schedule
  • Set up access rights
8
Application demonstration
  • Demonstration and training
  • Customer feedback analysis

Frequently asked questions

What is predictive analytics with examples?

Predictive analytics is an advanced type of data analytics that is used to forecast future conditions or events with the help of a combination of historical data, data mining, and machine learning models. Businesses adopt predictive analytics to foresee risks and opportunities that are covered within related data patterns.
Predictive analytics have a wide range of use cases.

a) Manufacturing companies apply predictive analytics to predict disruptions, improve production processes through constant sensor’s data monitoring and analysis, and reduce time to market in the end.
b) It’s widely used for marketing campaign results and sales forecasting within all industries.
c) Predictive analytics applies for trading and investments forecasting.
d) Predictive analytics models also used in dynamic pricing formation where they help to analyze real-time data related to demand and competitors and set up beneficial pricing policy etc.

Business intelligence solution providers from IBA Group and Visual Flow can advise you on predictive analytics abilities for your business use case.

What is the main component of business intelligence?

BI infrastructure has not one but three key components: reporting schema, the set of extractions processes, and the embedded analytics, all of them are coming within your business intelligence application. BI dashboards visualization depends on specific business areas or report parameters requested by analysts.

What data is needed for business intelligence?

All your company departments, with their internal and external business processes, generate loads of data that can be used in your BI application. Mostly, it’s historical data that you already own in some way, and it can be enriched with the data from other relevant resources. BI applications can operate financial data, performance data, marketing data, and so on.
As an experienced business intelligence agency, we help you to analyze all available data sources and advise you on how to utilize them.

What are business intelligence requirements?

BI software is a powerful source of market and business insights. To make it a truly practical tool that can be used for actual decision-making, you should establish functional requirements. They should not only cover your company’s baseline needs but also all nuances related to localization, collaboration tools, etc.
BI requirements also should contain information on data source connectivity, data management, data querying and analysis. Important part of BI requirements lies in data visualization and reporting specification.
As a reliable business intelligence company, we provide you with briefs, templates, and step-by-step guidance on BI requirement formation.

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