Industries
Thousands of businesses worldwide now use BI to help make smarter decisions, faster. Here’s a sample of what a few are doing to deliver value:
- Allied Irish Banks have increased revenues by better understanding product and customer profitability.
- Banque Accord gets greater value from existing data, by exploiting cross-selling and improving satisfaction.
- Business Link London, improved customer satisfaction to 93% and reduced duplicate costs by a factor of ten.
- Coretec transfer best practice and centralised operations data to deliver lower costs and better speed to market.
- Channel 4’s 4OD aggregates & controls media from many sources to thousands of daily users.
- Dunelm uses feedback from POS tools to inventory & distribution, with the presentation of analysis, to reduce resource, improve inventory & ultimately support growth.
- Hampshire Constabulary provide transparency in resource allocation & spot trends in crime, helping to both improve utilisation and also detection rates.
- Rubbermaid ensures Segregation of Duties & and Sarbanes Oxley compliance with automated violation reporting.
- Sennheiser delivers all reports via self-service, providing easier access to critical data, in a way end users can control without reliance on other internal resources.
Industry specific solutions
Increasingly, many of the capabilities of BI are available in preconfigured solutions to reduce implementation costs and accelerate the so called ‘time to value’. Whilst they may require some tailoring to your specific requirements they have industry best practice embedded within them. Some examples include,
For retail
Sales analysis, On-shelf availability analysis, trade promotion effectiveness
For banking
Enterprise risk reporting, Planning and consolidation
For healthcare
Quality management, Planning and consolidation
For defence & security
Readiness assessment
For telecommunications
Customer analysis and retention
Many other out of the box solutions are available for other industries including, Consumer products, Financial services, Manufacturing, Public sector and Utilities.