Key takeaways
- Six to eight weeks against data already clean and in one place; three to five months when it must be pulled from several systems and reconciled.
- The work is in the data, not the dashboards. Building a chart is quick; agreeing what a figure means when two systems disagree is not.
- A data warehouse is not always needed. Reading two or three systems directly is often enough and much cheaper.
- If your systems give different answers to the same question today, expect that reconciliation to be most of the project.
DECK IT, Ahmedabad, provides business intelligence and data analytics consulting: dashboards, reporting and analytics implementation, with a first set of dashboards usually live within 6–8 weeks. Organizations around the globe are in a constant pursuit to differentiate themselves from their competition in the crowded marketplace. Apart from achieving product leadership, strategies such as operational excellence, customer relationship are key enablers for differentiation in the market. Effective use of data and information is the core to ensure the success of these strategies via business intelligence and data analytics. The importance of data and the insights it offers cannot be understated in the current world. BI & Analytics play a pivotal role in harnessing data's actual value to develop critical insights and discover new opportunities for the organization's sustainable growth. Most of the organizations understand the importance of data and information. However, the rapid increase of information leads to a new and unique challenge in extracting the relevant information from the enormous volumes of varied and unstructured data. business intelligence and data analytics help address these challenges by taking advantage of this data's potential. Effective BI & Analytics solutions have made it more comfortable and effective to unravel deeper insights. Our solutions help organizations understand the current prevailing trends, predict the possible future outcomes precisely and prepare plans to handle the situations. We use the latest next-gen technologies to help design business intelligence and data analytics solutions that help organizations increase their ROI by gaining insights about their business, products, customers, and the markets. Our services bring agility to your data landscape and cater effectively to all the critical business functions and exigencies. We offer a comprehensive solution platform that includes Architecture consulting, Enterprise Data Management, Analytics, Data Visualization, IoT etc. We are able to create an ecosystem that integrates the best available technological solutions, IPs, accelerators, algorithms and state-of-the-art dashboards that help to identify and manage strategies, budgets, plans etc. for senior executives and decision-makers. Through our BI & Analytics solutions, organizations can leverage the true potential of automation, AI, Machine Learning, mobility etc. and have access to precise, on-demand visibility of information. AI earns its cost in an Indian SME where work is high-volume, repetitive and checkable: invoices, support tickets and management reports. Here is how to test each one. Data analytics and business analytics are not the same. DECK IT compares their goals, methods and tools and shows when your business needs each.
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Report directly, or build a warehouse first?
Report directly from two or three systems. A warehouse earns its cost once the number of sources or the need for one agreed definition makes that fragile.
| Direct reporting | Data warehouse | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources it suits | Two or three | Several, or a long history |
| Timeline | Six to eight weeks | Three to five months |
| Single agreed definition | By convention | Enforced |
| Breaks when | A source system changes shape | Rarely, but costs more to change |
Start direct unless the number of sources or the need for one agreed definition already makes it fragile.
BI and analytics: questions we get asked
How long does a BI project take?
Six to eight weeks to get a first set of dashboards running against data that is already clean and in one place. Three to five months where the data has to be pulled from several systems and reconciled first, which is the more common case.
What does BI and analytics cost?
Most projects we quote fall between ₹5 lakh and ₹40 lakh, roughly $6,000 to $50,000, as a fixed price for a defined scope, or a monthly rate for ongoing work.
Why do BI projects overrun?
Because the work is in the data, not the dashboards. Building a chart is quick; agreeing what a figure means when two systems disagree is not. If your systems currently give different answers to the same question, expect that reconciliation to be most of the project.
Do we need a data warehouse first?
Not always. If you are reporting from two or three systems, reading them directly is often enough and much cheaper. A warehouse earns its cost once the number of sources, the volume of history or the need for a single agreed definition makes direct reporting fragile.
Can you work with the tools we already have?
Usually yes, and it is worth asking before replacing anything. Tell us what you report from today and what it cannot answer.