Key issues

Data Audit

The quality of data is vital. You need to establish how adequate your data is for use in a specific context and how any deficiencies can be corrected.

Data Cleaning

Your data must be clean (free from errors) and may need to be transformed (re-structured) prior to analysis and to allow it to be shared between computer systems and applications.

Data Structuring

Data from operational systems and normalized data warehouses is seldom efficiently usable, if useable at all, by analytical algorithms and processes. Your data may need to be re-structured to facilitate analysis.

Data Migration

Heterogeneous IT environments are common with systems and software from many suppliers being deployed across the organization. You may need to migrate the right data to the right place in the right form.

Data Analytics Design

You should regularly review and audit your business processes and operations in the light of your strategic and commercial objectives to ensure that no key goal or indicator is unsupported by appropriate, timely and accurate data.

This is especially important if your organization is using Balanced Scorecard and KPI (Key Performance Indicator) management systems and/or if you have implemented Data Driven Decisioning.

Designing data analytics into your business processes enables you to further empower your business from data and allows you to gain an enhanced commercial yield.

Data Mining & Analysis

We can assist with a wide variety of analysis tasks using a broad spectrum of analysis tools ranging from Microsoft Excel, Access and SQL Server through to the statistics applications from SPSS and SAS and the dedicated data mining environments of SAS Enterprise Miner and SPSS Clementine.

Going beyond data analysis, whether you are setting up a data mining capability for the first time or trying to improve what you are already doing we can help. We have considerable experience and advanced training in the use of SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Decision Tree & Neural Network Modeling, SPSS Clementine, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and other high performance analytic environments