With a standard data structure and possibly many interrelated but incompatible systems contributing to a business operation, providing a single consistent view of the data across the organization for decision making can be a nightmare.

The principle of data warehousing is that a copy of day to day business transactions from single or multiple source systems can be combined and organized into a data warehouse that forms the base to provide clean, accurate and timely information for effective business intelligence reporting.  This intelligence can provide a number of benefits offering the potential for:

• Finding new avenues for growth
• Improving productivity
• Increasing the ROI on resources and assets
• Improving customer relationships and service levels
• Identifying new markets

Alok has the expertise to create effective strategies for the use of data within a business to reflect the reporting and intelligence needs of an organization. He is able to understand the needs of a business in relation to its data and together with his analytical and technical skills can offer businesses a robust data warehousing and business intelligence solution.

Corporate Performance Management

One of the primary functions of management is to ensure that their organization is performing well. In order to determine whether performance is optimal is to make measurements and compare them against known parameters and business goals. One of the key tools available to the management assessing performance levels is the reporting that they receive from their data systems. If life were simple, this would be a straightforward case of extracting data that is already formatted and structured ideally for this purpose. As we know, organizations and the systems they use to store data are far from simple in reality. This is caused mostly by hardware and software being marketed and implemented on the basis of the functionality at the user end of the operation. They are usually not designed with data integration in mind and the structure of stored data is rarely conducive to the creation of business intelligence. The real value of that data to those managing an organization comes from having the right data, represented in an understandable form that can be used to assess corporate performance and other metrics, measurable by the data the corporation has access to, owns, and generates.

Producing this information in such an accessible, digestible, and useful form is an important service that Alok offers as a professional consultant and experienced software and data engineer. He is able to use his acute business analysis skills together with his knowledge of databases and other data storage systems and combine them with proven expert software design abilities to produce coherent solutions. Alok can provide performance reporting and management systems that put managers in proper control of every aspect of their business by providing the data they require, in a format that is useful.

If you feel your data warehouse, business intelligence or corporate performance management solution is not optimal; Alok Fadia can provide high quality, effective solutions.