From planning your initial strategy and establishing a data infrastructure to implementing visualization and analytic tools, we can help.
Planning and Strategy
You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint that takes into consideration your current and future needs. The same is true for developing a Business Intelligence strategy. We can help you:
- Determine your tactical and strategic business needs
- Assess BI readiness both from a business and technical perspective
- Find out how to leverage your existing investments in technology, and help you select vendors and tools that make sense for your organization
Ironworks has a sound, proven methodology for working with our clients to create a realistic strategy for success throughout the planning cycle.
Infrastructure
Keep more of your assets. Everyday, important information about your business and its processes slip through the cracks. Take advantage of what your organization already is producing and you’ll gain a stronger competitive advantage. Data warehouses, data marts and ETL Services can help.
- Provide a “single version of the truth” for your corporate information requirements
- Create a centralized repository for information based on a common organization taxonomy
- Develop automated processes for delivering timely information
We’ll enable your enterprise to collect, integrate and analyze important information from a variety of systems into one central source.
Visualization
Business Scorecards
Perspective is everything. If the information you need is not in the context you need, it simply loses value. Business scorecards allow you to view your company’s vital information in one place, when you need it.
- Create a “strategy map” – an effective way to illustrate the causal drivers of performance and outcomes
- Give key decision makers the ability to monitor the leading indicators of future performance
- Provide executives an “at a glance” look at the key performance indicators that drive overall organizational health
No matter the size of your organization or its business complexity, we can help you access and manage key performance indicators, strategy updates and planning and budgeting activities in real-time by using scorecards, dashboards and financial analytics.
Enterprise Reporting
Share your knowledge. A centralized and accessible enterprise reporting solution will not only save you time and money, it can help you share vital information throughout your organization.
- Create a centrally managed, secured and accessible location for all of your transactional reporting needs
- Give your associates the opportunity to subscribe to a report that is delivered to them when they need it and in the format most useful to their individual needs
Reduce the complexity of creating, managing and delivering production level reports. By implementing an enterprise reporting solution, a single report can be published in multiple delivery channels (i.e. line of business application, e-mail, .pdf, etc.) and custom fit to your organization’s current processes.
Analytics
On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
An analyst’s dream is to have a single pool of data with all of its relationships defined. This allows them to spend their time doing analysis rather than writing queries or matching disparate data sources. On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) makes this possible. Beyond just reporting, OLAP allows for dimensional analysis of your data and gives the analyst a sandbox for analyzing a series of measures across multiple dimensions.
- Gives analysts pivot table views of data
- Controls source data while serving many different analyst’s needs
- Provides the end-user the speed they require
Data Mining Services
Find the hidden gems within your terabytes of data. Data mining uses advanced algorithms and statistical methods to find information that can’t be seen by the human eye.
- Segment your customers and/or products to grow sales
- Turn your reactive measures into proactive alerts, get a ahead of your business process
- Determine what drives customer behavior
Pricing & Margin Management
Do you sell a variety of products to many different customers? Are you feeling the constant pressure of declining margins within your business? We can help you use your existing data to understand where you can raise your margins with the lowest risk to your organization.
- Take what your best sales people do and extend it to your entire organization
- Provide the insights and information to make good pricing and margin decisions
- Quickly Improve your margins and achieve ROI
Ironworks has a proven methodology that uses technology and analytics to get your margins turned around and instills a culture of pricing confidence within your organization.
- 100 percent client satisfaction - talk with our existing BI clients about working with Ironworks
- Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner - Ironworks is one of only seven Managed Gold Microsoft Partners in the Mid-Atlantic region.This has given us significant mind-share opportunities with Microsoft
- Integrated design and development teams
- Focus on effective information architecture
- Scalable and responsive to local and enterprise needs
- Not wedded to any software or solution, meaning you'll receive unbiased consultation based on extensive experience in system platforms and software
Ironworks delivers experience, creativity and know-how each time. Our teams are staffed with industry experts and consultants who focus only on what they know best. Because we don’t try to be everything to everyone, our experts stay experts and our new clients become returning clients.