Emerging Technologies

Innovation

Do you have what it takes to out-think, out-hustle and out-perform your competitors? Gaining and retaining competitive advantage requires continuous business process improvement and IT innovation. Often, that means combining the power of existing technologies in ways that heighten performance, improve customer interaction and differentiate service. The new technologies in the BI World are: Cloud Computing, Mobile and Search & Unstrtuctured data analysis.

Cloud Computing & Business Analytics gives organizations the power gives the ability to consume resources as required in an elastic manner and scaling the consumption arbitrarily as required. The advent of infrastructure as a service implies that computational power is available on demand and on a pay-as-you-go basis with similar characteristics applying to storage of data as well. This enables a layer of services sitting on top of this infrastructure to decouple the delivery aspect of the services from the core business oriented aspects involved in these services.

Mobile Business Intelligence gives organizations the power to build a dynamic computing environment that extends the value of business information through mobile access, query and analysis.

BI Search capability gives everyday users a self-service way to find important BI information using the application or device most convenient to them, including Web portals, search interfaces like Google, Microsoft® Office, or mobile devices.

Content Analytics solution gives organizations the ability to access and analyze unstructured content that can be found both inside and outside the organization. It turns unstructured content into new business insight through the ability to access, sort and analyze that content, and combine it with structured data and other information resources

Our Offerings:

Our consultants apply best practices – learned from deploying BI systems at Global 1000 organizations – to quickly and effectively introduce new technology to your organization. We draw upon our experience to help you succeed and take advantage of the powerful new capabilities of new technology in the shortest possible time with full user adoption.

Roadmap for Business Analytics & Cloud Computing: Cloud computing provides key enablers for BI in these specific areas:

  • Computational resources consumed for heavy calculations that could be involved in predictive analytics as a example.
  • Startegy for storing extremely heavy data loads for cheaper prices on the cloud.
  • Reporting and visualization offering in a software as a service (SaaS) model, enabling newer consumption behavior for these specific BI components, also given that web is the most common delivery method for reports it makes it seamless to add new users as well as on-demand scaling for existing user loads.
  • As more and more applications and data sets move to the cloud, BI services need to adapt to look at Cloud as the data source and assess how to incorporate them in the existing data infrastructure
  • Rapid Go! Mobile Package: Mobile Business Intelligence gives organizations the power to: Integrate workers into every business process, where they can monitor, manage and analyze information and identify trends, problems and opportunities - anytime, anywhere. Turn operational data into role-specific knowledge that supports timely, effective business decisions. Rapid Go! Mobile package: This package has it all to get started on your Mobile BI experience. This two week engagement includes:

    • Assessment of your environment for mobile readiness
    • Installation and configuration of the Go! Mobile environment
    • Assessment of executive readiness of the reports for mobile consumption
    • Enable 2-3 reports on your mobile device Setup Go! Mobile client on user's mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry
    • Knowledge transfer to Mobile administrators to manage the new application

    Rapid Go! Search Package: BI search capability enables your organization to reduce duplication of report authoring efforts, combine knowledge assets with performance information to enable better decisions and a more comprehensive view of information and provide faster and easier access to the most relevant reports and analytics.

    Rapid Go! Search package: This package provides a quick start to leveraging the power of Go! Search. This two week engagement includes:

    • Assessment of your environment for Go! Search readiness
    • Capacity planning for the Go! search capability
    • Installation and configuration of the Go! Search environment
    • Enablement of a metadata model and a package/cube reports
    • Roadmap for integrating with 3rd party search engines like Google.

“Locus is a trusted partner who has consistently met their commitments. By bringing business and technical expertise to the table, they delivered important Business Intelligence solutions to TriNet both on-time and in-budget.”

Paul Sheirich

Director of Applications Development

TriNetGorup

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