Business Intelligence & Self-Service
Reporting only matters if it changes a decision. We build the dashboards, KPIs and standard reports that management runs on — group finance, daily sales, operational incidents, workforce metrics — and then enable the business to answer its own next question through governed self-service.
We work across the major platforms — SAP BusinessObjects and Analytics Cloud, Power BI, QuickSight and more — and we upgrade or migrate them when the current environment cannot scale. Every engagement includes training for the IT team that will run the platform and the business users who will use it, because adoption is the outcome.
Offerings
KPI dashboards
Executive and functional dashboards on finance, sales, procurement, HR and operations — designed around the decisions each audience makes.
Standard & exception reporting
Canned reports, scheduled distribution and exception alerts that replace manual reporting to management.
Governed self-service
Semantic layers and curated models so end users build their own reports with minimal or no IT intervention.
Mobile BI
Critical data on the go for field sales teams and management.
BI platform upgrades
Version upgrades and platform consolidation (for example BusinessObjects 4.x, integration with SAP BW) that unlock the roadmap.
Enablement & training
IT teams trained to run and extend the environment; business users trained on self-service analytics.
Where AI changes BI
Dashboards answer the questions someone thought of last quarter. The AI layer answers the one being asked now — and tells you what changed before you ask.
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Conversational analytics
Ask the data in plain language — Copilot in Power BI, SAC Just Ask, Amazon Q in QuickSight, or an LLM over your own semantic layer — with the governed model behind every answer, so the numbers match the board pack.
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Automated insights & anomaly alerts
Significant movements, outliers and broken trends are detected and explained in a sentence, then pushed to the owner — instead of waiting to be spotted on a dashboard.
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Narrative reporting
Monthly packs and commentary drafted from the numbers by AI, with the analyst editing rather than writing — hours saved every close.
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The semantic layer that makes AI trustworthy
Metric definitions, hierarchies and access rules in one governed layer, so whatever asks — a person, a Copilot, an agent — gets the same answer.
Our approach
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Define the decisions
Agree the KPIs, audiences and cadence — what management needs daily, weekly and at board level.
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Model & build
Curated data models on the warehouse, then dashboards and standard reports built against them.
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Enable self-service
Open governed models to the business, with training, standards and access controls.
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Adopt & extend
Measure usage, retire manual reporting, and hand the platform to a trained internal team.
Outcomes
What changes
- Management runs on near-real-time KPIs instead of manual reporting.
- Business users answer their own questions with minimal IT intervention.
- Time to develop new BI content drops drastically.
- User adoption and analytics maturity increase — measurably.
Questions we're asked about business intelligence & self-service
SAP BusinessObjects and Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, SAP BW and others. We are vendor-agnostic; we recommend and build on the platform that fits your estate and your users.
Yes. Version upgrades and platform consolidations — for example moving to a current BusinessObjects release and integrating it with SAP BW — are often the fastest route to a future-ready environment, and they reuse the content and models you already have.
Governance first: curated data models, a semantic layer, clear ownership and access controls. Self-service is opened on top of that, with training for the business users.
Always. Every engagement includes enabling the IT team to run and extend the environment and the business users to use it — capability staying with you is the point.