You’ve got data, and lots of it. If you’re like most enterprises, you’re struggling to transform massive information into actionable insights for better decision making and increased business results.

Here is how we can help:

Business Intelligence & Data Visualization

These are umbrella terms that refer to the analysis of an organization’s raw data. We consult on the spectrum of related activities, including data mining, online analytical processing, querying, reporting, and dashboard development.

We approach these projects with the goal of using sophisticated analytical tools to improve decision making, cutting costs, and identifying new business opportunities.

Business Intelligence & Data Visualization

Business Intelligence is more than a set of tools to coax data out of enterprise systems.

BI applications can quickly identify inefficient business processes that are ripe for re-engineering. Let our team of developers help your business with:

  • Recommending analytical products, services, and standards
  • Gathering business requirements
  • Organizing and leading the integration of new tools and systems
  • Establishing ETL processes to make data available for reporting and analytics
  • Ensuring data integrity, security, and access
  • Training by certified instructors

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Data and Analytics Strategy

Analytics is a systematic process used to gain information that drives business decisions and can be used to optimize business processes, reduce expenses, minimize risks, and increase revenues. This is a strategic business practice that can be used by many industries by gathering data from individual or multiple sources and summarizing the data into useful knowledge.

Data and Analytics Strategy

We strategize with you so you can become a data-driven company that leverages data for a competitive advantage.

Successful analytics depends on having a complete end-to-end solution. SME's skilled experts understand the technologies and strategies required to deliver actionable analytics to the entire enterprise. Here are a few of the components for a data and analytics strategy: 

  • Data Integration - Remove barriers separating your data sources and applications, making all of your data available and usable across the entire organization.
  • Infrastructure Modernization - Deploy native and cloud-based data platforms that scale for the complexity and size of modern application requirements. 
  • Data Governance - Build an enterprise data catalog to simplify and accelerate the delivery of trustworthy and business-ready data to all end users.  
  • Advanced Analytics - Create dynamic, rich visualizations and dashboards through the use of best-in-class applications combined with AI and Machine Learning. 
  • Cloud Hosting - Migrate existing projects or create new ones with the flexibility of SME's cloud environment solutions.

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Identify your data strengths and weaknesses

An assessment of your Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting needs as compared to your current ability to fulfill those goals.

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What truly drives value?

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Operational Planning

Leveraging Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, and Waterfall methodologies to work within your organization's preferred structure to support your organizational goals. We utilize situational analysis and assessment to improve the quality of process outputs. We focus on providing a holistic approach to all engagements and specialize in supporting your operations by consulting on:

  • Key Performance Indicators & Metric Development
  • Information flow analysis
  • Change management
  • Risk management & mitigation
Operational Planning

When we assist with operations we consider the full life cycle of the project and your data. 

Operational planning, or operations consulting, is woven into all of our projects. SME provides advisory and/or implementation services to improve a company's internal operations and performance in the value chain. We work with you to become more effective with the implementation of changes to operating model, functional business processes, management systems, culture and other elements part of the value chain. 

  • Organizing the activities into manageable work
  • Ensuring that appropriate timing, resources, and sequencing of the work efforts are aligned to produce timely results
  • Monitoring project activities and reporting on status
  • Identifying and managing potential scope changes, risks, and issues
  • Documenting and analyzing lessons learned and validating the completion of the tasks

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Technology Partners

SME partners with best-in-class technologies to improve:

We have data experts on the team that are laser focused on finding the best technologies that help solve common data challenges.

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Multi-Provider Collaboration

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Analyze

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Transform

Extract, migrate and transform your data in the cloud to harness the power for advanced analytics, self-service data science, AI and machine learning. With data pipelines that automatically detect and handle data loss or corruption, organizations are spending less time fixing and more time doing.

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Search

What if searching your data for answers was as easy as a Google search? With search & AI driven analytics, anyone can find insights hidden in their company data in seconds. Use search to get granular insights from billions of rows of data or let AI uncover insights from questions you might not have thought to ask.

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BI Maturity

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Modernization

Whether you’re a business or technology professional, get the performance, flexibility, and near-infinite scalability to easily load, integrate, analyze, and securely share data with a fully-managed cloud service that’s simple to use but can power a near-unlimited number of concurrent workloads.

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Governance

Without data governance and literacy, the insights that are hidden in your data become limited. SME offers solutions that provide data glossaries, data catalogs, and other data management systems that help uncover the true insights in your data.

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LET'S TALK

The fastest way to see how SME can help you optimize your data solution is to schedule a quick discovery session.

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