Delivering Value Through Business Intelligence

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Delivering value through

business intelligence
Case Study: eCourier, Cablecom, Bryan Cave

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What is Business
Intelligence (?)

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What is Business Intelligence (BI)
Keywords: customers satisfaction
Conservatives: surveys/polls, human analyst
Avant-garde: business intelligence, data analyst

BI refers to a variety of software applications used


to analyze an organizations raw data
Activities in BI: data mining, online analytical processing,
querying, and reporting
Use of BI: decision making, cut costs, and identify new
business opportunities

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From data to Information on
Demand

Source: BI Masters Query & Reporting Basics IBM Corp.

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IT contributions in business success
eCourier
Online booking and tracking
Using BI for data analysis of customers trend, interpret anomalies,
and generate alert system
Cablecom
Online customers surveys
Record and analyze statistical data to predict customers
dissatisfaction period and alert company to take action on it
Bryan Cave
Allocate man power to balance profitability and hours leveraged
Also provide real time budget, diversity dashboard

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Learning from eCourier
Why not all companies apply the same strategy?
Low scale company
No budget to develop the technology
Target market population
Human workforce inexpensive:
Different set of skill is required
Personal approach for customer

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Learning from Cablecom
Predictions of customers at risk of leaving
Other actions could be taken:

Give incentives, e.g. promotions, discounts


With other partners, if any, give retaining packages
If at best all effort to sustain customers have been
done, at the least feasible point for company,
letting customers leave is inevitable
Being difficult
Unrealistic demands

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Learning from Bryan Cave
Other professions can benefit from similar BI tool
House contractors
To allocate personnel and hours worked on each projects
Architect, carpenter, handyman, interior & exterior designer, etc.
Advertising agency
To allocate personnel within each expertise field for a given
project
Different deliverables: print-out ad, media ad, etc.
Creative team, market researcher, graphic designer, illustrators,
production team, etc.

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Latest BI Technologies - 1
Big data, cloud services, predictive analytics, and
data science
Evolution of Self-service BI

Self-service information for the masses delivered not


through tools but through purpose-built interfaces and apps
Replacement of enterprise applications to mobile
apps.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will create new

opportunities for data visualization and real-time


analysis predictive capabilities

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Latest BI Technologies - 2
The difference with the cases mentioned:
New technologies are improvement from the existing system,
Issue of data storage
Reaction times
Customization need
Ability to run an even more complex algorithm, which came from
progressing customers need and market competition
Growing number of small to midsize businesses
The need of simpler but still reliable system
Back then, digital data was limited:
Currently, data are abundant, from different platforms and
unstandardized
Analysis and data filtering are enhanced to limit which data are
valuable for the purpose of companys BI

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Gartner Hype Cycle 2013

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Back Ups

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Typical BI architecture

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