Allied Consultants - Business Intelligence Services

Business Intelligence

Information to Insight

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Business Intelligence Information to Insight

About Allied• Consulting since 2001• Focused on Business Intelligence, Application Integration, Mobile and

Web development• Offices in Alberta, Canada and Indian Subcontinent• 25+ architects with a broad partner network of specialists based around

the world• 10 years of experience in the Mid-sized market• Industry Agnostic

Company

Clients

Channel Partners

History

• Over 2 decades of consulting experience

• Diversified into Legal Education Consulting

• Diversified into IT in 2001

• Growing at over 100% a year since 2007

• Comprehensive partner network of over 50 local

companies for expertise not available in-house

• Core values remained the same through the years:

– Small. Smart. Fair.


IT - Practice Areas

• Enterprise Application Integration• Business Intelligence• Web and Portals• Mobile Development

Predominantly Microsoft Focused


Business Capabilities

• KPIs• Performance Monitoring• Pattern Analysis• Budgeting and Planning• Forecasting• Clickstream analysis


IT Capabilities

• KPI• Dashboards• Scorecards• Graphs• Charts• User Driven Analytical reports


Technical Capabilities

• SSAS• SSRS• SSIS• Performance Point• Power Pivot/View• SQL Server• SharePoint Server• Auxiliary practices

• Microstrategy, IBM, SAP


Our Expertise – ‘End to End’

Data from multiple sources

Data Extraction & Validation

LoadDatabase Platform

Data Preparation & Aggregation Data Marts

Exception Reporting, Real-Time

Analysis, Alerts

Relational Data marts

Data Analysis Cubes

Analysis & Reporting

Interactive Planning & Execution

Data Mining


Differentiators

• Experienced consultants who understand the business problem, not just the technology

• Average developer has about 8 years of experience

• Vast partner network for best-in-class delivery


Alberta Pipes

• 2 year long project building various organizational dashboards

• Finance, Inventory, Stock, Shipment reports and KPIs

• Extraction of data from vendor data and Sage Adonix X3 (ERP)


Guilford County

• Dashboard built using cloud based SAAS Technology (Birst)

• Dashboard showed KPIs for Child Placement services

• Modernized existing Excel/Access based systems into a consolidated online portal team members could collaborate on


Vintage Senior

• Data extraction from Yardi (ERP)• Cubes developed to aggregate

key data across time and location dimensions

• Forecasting reports displayed a user dashboard projected revenue over various dimensions


Mobile Employee Reporting

• Linc/ABM is one of the largest Facilities Maintenance firms in the US

• The application reported the current status of tasks

• Provided instant visibility of worker status

• Contained images/audio/video recordings of


LA Fitness

• Visio Services Reporting• Dashboard visually showed

problems with fitness equipment

• Recognized as the most creative application by Microsoft


Grubb & Ellis – Client Dashboards

• Grubb & Ellis is a real estate management company

• A series of 7 client dashboards were built to show G & E customers key metrics on their properties

• Data was extracted from a custom ERP and displayed on an interactive SharePoint Dashboard


Other Competencies

• Enterprise Application Integration– B2B – Connecting Business Partners

Electronically– EAI – Connecting applications within the

organization

• Web Development– Portals and websites to go with the

mobile applications

• Mobile Development


Engagement Models

• Fixed cost : You get a fixed quote for an application– Lowest Risk, Lowest Hassle

• Time and Material: Charging by the hour. Best suited for projects where the scope is not clear or an iterative SDLC is preferred.– Flexible, More control

• Team Incubation : Customer can chose to host a team at Allied, managing them directly and paying local rate salaries– Lowest Cost, Maximum Control


Call to Action

• Talk is Cheap• We’ll give you 2 weeks of free services to try

us out• If you don’t like what we can do, you don’t

pay