Business Intelligence & Performance Management

As a Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI&DW) specialist, Ajel provides integrated strategy and technology implementation services, enabling clients to leverage their most invaluable corporate asset - enterprise information.

Ajel presents 'end-to-end' BI&DW deliverables, encompassing on-site business & technical needs assessment, development & integration services, and partial or total outsourcing of application implementation and maintenance.

With over 100 consultants and multiple customers in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, the Ajel team represents a pool of diverse technology skill sets including data acquisition, data modeling, meta data repository, data management, data mining and OLAP.

Approaching business intelligence from a mature management consulting perspective, Ajel delivers reliable, robust, scalable, secure and extensible BI&DW solutions within the shortest possible time.

The company delivers innovative business strategies by leveraging the integration of emerging or existing technologies. It has developed a methodology, which provides a framework for each stage of a client engagement, from helping the client conceive its strategy, to architecting, engineering and extending its information.

Ajel’s Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing consultants can help create a data warehouse to extract and cleanse data, and then create the analytics necessary to deliver information that gives a real advantage over competition.

Ajel can create a custom solution to fit specific needs, or offer a pre-defined solution to help accelerate time-to-solution. Ajel believes that its integrated methodology allows the company to deliver reliable, robust, scalable, secure and extensible BI solutions in rapid time frames by:

Shortening the development and delivery cycle
Minimizing risk while maximizing ROI
Planning deployments with detailed road maps
Starting small with a pilot and scaling upward

Ajel offers complete ‘end-to-end’ data warehousing and business intelligence services, including on-site business / technical needs assessment, development and integration services and partial or total outsourcing of application implementation and maintenance.

Ajel enables clients to build their data warehouse in the most scalable, intelligent environment possible, ensuring their efforts are readily adaptable to platform changes, database additions and changing business requirements.

Business Intelligence is progressively becoming a core focus in the business strategy of many organizations often providing the vital information needed for how a company can compete in the global market place.

Ajel's track record offers proven methods for maximizing performance while minimizing costs.

Services

Complete analysis of functional needs
Data mart and data warehouse design, using data modeling techniques
Data warehouse creation at multiple sites from multiple servers
Web-enabling of data warehouses and complimentary reporting OLAP tool implementations on the web
Single sign on, using LDAP and web servers
Expertise with databases such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix and Teradata
Writing ad hoc queries and reports
Integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Datatex etc

Integration with e-Commerce to build near-real-time data warehouse access

Integration with customer relationship management (CRM) tools such as Siebel, Clarify and Oracle CRM

Key Advantages

Ajel has expertise in Microsoft SQL Server DTS and Analysis Services with an Excel front-end, Oracle and ETL/reporting tools from various BI vendors, including Business Objects and Cognos.
The company has worked extensively with other types of analyses tools, including data mining, planning and visualization products, and can provide these services to meet customers' needs.
Ajel has vast experience in integration enabling consolidation of information from legacy and transactional systems to provide a 'complete picture' of an organization.
Web-enabling of data warehouses and complimentary reporting OLAP tool implementations on the web
Considerable involvement in data warehouse design, development, implementation and support has exposed Ajel to the practicalities and 'real world' issues of such projects.
Ajel has skilled practitioners in complementary areas like development and integration into ERP and CRM systems, Enterprise Content Management, and Web development which allows it to extend the scope of BI projects to meet client needs.

Offerings

Project management to manage BI projects assessing BI requirements
Designing BI architecture conforming to existing infrastructure
Modeling BI data requirements in the most appropriate format
Creating the physical BI structures required and implementing BI metadata management solutions
Selecting the most appropriate BI tools for the project developing ETL and BI integration processes
Working with end users on BI reporting and analyses
Building BI applications that meet specific needs
Instituting BI quality and reconciliation procedures. Setting up ongoing BI support structure recommending future enhancements for BI projects

Benefits

Helps management in making decisions on the pricing and the competitive positioning Improves information flow within the organization
Improves interaction with customers
Generates comprehensive MIS reports