Business intelligence consulting services

Business intelligence consulting services

Business intelligence consulting aims to set up data analysis processes and technology that deliver actionable information to business users. Itransition offers BI advisory support to companies that want to implement a scalable BI solution or maximize the value of the existing BI software.

Itransition’s business intelligence consultants assist companies with consolidating voluminous enterprise data into scalable storage solutions and presenting actionable insights to end-users via interactive reports and dashboards.

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Power business management with intelligence

Smart data-driven business decisions
at the strategic and operational levels due to complete key performance indicators visibility
Business process efficiency
owing to instant access to relevant data and the elimination of communication bottlenecks
Decreased time to insight
due to business users’ access to self-service BI capabilities and improved data literacy
Improved data security and quality
due to automated quality management and centralized security and governance

About Itransition

15+ years providing business intelligence services

Hands-on experience in creating custom, platform-based, and embedded BI solutions

Delivery of self-service BI solutions on top of Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and Qlik

Strategic partnerships with Microsoft and AWS

ISO 27001 and ISO 9001-certified to ensure service quality and customer data safety

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Our business intelligence consulting services

Itransition’s business analytics consultants guide you through end-to-end BI implementation and provide on-demand advisory support at every step of your BI project. The scope of our business intelligence consulting services covers:

Business needs and current environment analysis

  • Elicitation and analysis of business goals, needs, expectations, risks and concerns from BI project stakeholders
  • Analysis of the current technology environment, data management practices, and business processes
  • Preliminary data source analysis (data volume, type, quality, sensitivity)

Conceptualization and strategy roadmapping

  • Defining functional and non-functional requirements for the solution
  • Outlining BI solution constraints and assumptions
  • Developing a robust BI strategy and detailed roadmap

Architecture design

  • Comprehensive audit of all data sources
  • Conceptual and logical data modeling
  • Creation of data integration and quality management policies and rules
  • ETL/ELT pipeline design
  • Design of data repositories and dashboards for different user roles with specific KPI sets
  • Creation of data security and data governance policies and standards

Deployment environment and tech stack selection

  • Selecting the optimal deployment environment between cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments
  • Cloud approach selection between Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Choosing business intelligence tools for each BI component

Implementation project planning

  • Defining BI project deliverables, roles, schedules, and timelines
  • Estimating BI project costs, TCO, and ROI
  • Developing a BI risk mitigation strategy
  • Prototype and PoCs delivery planning
  • Post-implementaiton QA and user training

Client spotlight

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Detailed

BI implementation roadmap

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Itransition developed a comprehensive BI strategy and prepared tailored recommendations for implementing a suitable banking BI solution.

BI consulting for a CX company

3x

cost savings

BI consulting for a CX company

Itransition provided advisory support to 5CA to optimize their Power BI-based analytics solution, speed up data loading, and save costs.

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

8x

benchmark achievement improvement

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

Itransition delivered user-friendly dashboard solutions for a digital media company to streamline marketing campaigns’ results forecast and performance monitoring.

Power BI implementation and training

2x

faster market project delivery

Power BI implementation and training

Itransition developed a Power BI-based solution and conducted employee training for an analytics and research consulting company to automate and improve their data processing and presentation.

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Detailed

BI implementation roadmap

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Itransition developed a comprehensive BI strategy and prepared tailored recommendations for implementing a suitable banking BI solution.

BI consulting for a CX company

3x

cost savings

BI consulting for a CX company

Itransition provided advisory support to 5CA to optimize their Power BI-based analytics solution, speed up data loading, and save costs.

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

8x

benchmark achievement improvement

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

Itransition delivered user-friendly dashboard solutions for a digital media company to streamline marketing campaigns’ results forecast and performance monitoring.

Power BI implementation and training

2x

faster market project delivery

Power BI implementation and training

Itransition developed a Power BI-based solution and conducted employee training for an analytics and research consulting company to automate and improve their data processing and presentation.

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Detailed

BI implementation roadmap

BI consulting and engineering for a commercial bank

Itransition developed a comprehensive BI strategy and prepared tailored recommendations for implementing a suitable banking BI solution.

BI consulting for a CX company

3x

cost savings

BI consulting for a CX company

Itransition provided advisory support to 5CA to optimize their Power BI-based analytics solution, speed up data loading, and save costs.

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

8x

benchmark achievement improvement

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

Itransition delivered user-friendly dashboard solutions for a digital media company to streamline marketing campaigns’ results forecast and performance monitoring.

Power BI implementation and training

2x

faster market project delivery

Power BI implementation and training

Itransition developed a Power BI-based solution and conducted employee training for an analytics and research consulting company to automate and improve their data processing and presentation.

Our customers say

The solution Itransition delivered helped us further raise the bar in the level of services we provide to our clients and allowed us to significantly increase their satisfaction and bolster our competitiveness on the market. While working on the project, Itransition’s team has proven to be responsible and experienced professionals, often acting as a valuable technology consultant, and demonstrated a highly creative, autonomous, and proactive approach.

Doug Yasso

Vice President, Data Design Consulting, Inc.

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We highly recommend Itransition as an expert and reliable partner, always dedicated to delivering the best-suited solutions for their clients. We appreciate the comprehensive and professional approach Itransition’s BI team takes.

John Joseph

Head of Technology, Solomon Coyle

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We found collaboration with Itransition straightforward and effortless as the team showcased a high degree of personal accountability and creativity, from the start positioning themselves as Power BI consultants and going beyond our expectations. The team's professionalism, expertise, and attention to detail were impressive and resulted in an excellent product, and we would recommend Itransition to anyone looking for true Power BI experts.

Dr. Syed Shah

Executive Vice President, Clinical & Strategic Operations Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions

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Itranstion’s team was very involved in understanding our problems and responsive to our needs. They helped us optimize the ETL process and improve Tableau dashboards performance as well as developed the recommendations for us on how to build a future-proof BI system. Thus, I’d definitely recommend Itransition as a smart and easy-to-go service provider to other companies looking for boosting their solutions built around data.

Vadym Boikov

Head of Data Science, Tasq.ai

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The solution Itransition delivered helped us further raise the bar in the level of services we provide to our clients and allowed us to significantly increase their satisfaction and bolster our competitiveness on the market. While working on the project, Itransition’s team has proven to be responsible and experienced professionals, often acting as a valuable technology consultant, and demonstrated a highly creative, autonomous, and proactive approach.

Doug Yasso

Vice President, Data Design Consulting, Inc.

Read original

We highly recommend Itransition as an expert and reliable partner, always dedicated to delivering the best-suited solutions for their clients. We appreciate the comprehensive and professional approach Itransition’s BI team takes.

John Joseph

Head of Technology, Solomon Coyle

Read original

We found collaboration with Itransition straightforward and effortless as the team showcased a high degree of personal accountability and creativity, from the start positioning themselves as Power BI consultants and going beyond our expectations. The team's professionalism, expertise, and attention to detail were impressive and resulted in an excellent product, and we would recommend Itransition to anyone looking for true Power BI experts.

Dr. Syed Shah

Executive Vice President, Clinical & Strategic Operations Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions

Read original

Itranstion’s team was very involved in understanding our problems and responsive to our needs. They helped us optimize the ETL process and improve Tableau dashboards performance as well as developed the recommendations for us on how to build a future-proof BI system. Thus, I’d definitely recommend Itransition as a smart and easy-to-go service provider to other companies looking for boosting their solutions built around data.

Vadym Boikov

Head of Data Science, Tasq.ai

Read original

BI solutions across industries

Finance

Itransition helps financial institutions develop customer-centered products and services to retain current clients and attain new ones, track their behavior, immediately identify fraudulent activity, benchmark against competitors, and spot optimization opportunities to strengthen their market position.
Finance

Healthcare

We tailor BI solutions to help healthcare organizations spot individual health trends and patterns to improve patient care outcomes, optimize staffing levels to reduce burnouts and churn, detect insurance fraud to prevent healthcare system abuse, optimize supply chain management, and reduce operating costs.
Healthcare

Manufacturing

We deliver BI solutions for manufacturing to help companies effectively manage multi-tier supply chains and prevent production delays, minimize inventory stockouts and overstocking, implement proactive equipment maintenance and minimize costly downtimes, identify defect root causes, minimize product recalls, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Manufacturing

Retail

Itransition crafts retail BI solutions to help companies understand their customer base and better target marketing and sales efforts, improve shop floors and product placements, devise customer-centered retention strategies, and optimize inventory and supply chain management.
Retail

Ecommerce

We devise comprehensive BI solutions for the ecommerce sector to help companies understand customer behavior, improve up- and cross-selling strategies, study price sensitivity and model prices for different customer segments, analyze sales performance, and develop new tactics.
Ecommerce

Construction

Itransition helps construction companies achieve transparency of resource utilization, contractor and subcontractor performance, labor costs, and inventory management with tailored BI solutions. Our solutions help construction businesses achieve project efficiency and productivity, devise effective risk management strategies, streamline workflows, and maximize overhead costs.
Construction

Telecommunications, media & entertainment

We help implement BI solutions for telecommunications organizations to identify customer needs and expectations, provide targeted experiences and grow customer lifetime value, gain better visibility into network issues, resolve and prevent them, and develop equipment maintenance and repair plans.
Telecommunications, media, and entertainment

Insurance

We help create tailored insurance BI solutions that assist with the timely detection of fraudulent activity, handling claims, monitoring market trends, discovering new business opportunities, making smarter strategic decisions, and optimizing underwriting and sales processes.
Insurance

Real estate

Itransition’s BI team implements full-scale BI solutions to help real estate entities monitor property sales and market trends, simplify property valuation and property search, streamline buying and selling processes, and finance administration and tax management.
Real estate

Education & eLearning

Itransition implements BI solutions to help educational institutions monitor and assess their students’ performance, upgrade their offer, and consequently improve customer experience, reducing retention. Additionally, using BI software, companies can closely monitor and analyze resource allocation and assess the costs and effectiveness of marketing activities.
Education and eLearning

Agriculture

Itransitions helps agricultural companies implement robust BI software to monitor plants and livestock and increase their well-being, analyze and handle production recalls, manage finances, analyze the success of sustainability initiatives, as well as forecast the demand and plan production accordingly.
Agriculture

Professional services

We help deliver BI software to aid professional services companies with keeping track of all critical metrics and KPIs. This way, BI can help monitor project progress and spot bottlenecks early on, assess staff performance and analyze their satisfaction levels to recognize top performers, minimize churn, analyze sales, and forecast demand.
Professional services

Automotive

We provide BI consulting services to help automotive companies measure customer satisfaction with current production, redesign or develop new products, and monitor and assess production quality to meet strict compliance requirements and minimize production recalls. Automotive companies can rely on a BI solution to dive deep into product costs, find optimization opportunities, negotiate successfully with suppliers, devise targeted marketing and sales campaigns, study the demand, and plan production.
Automotive

Energy

Itransition helps companies in the energy sector derive actionable data-driven insights from their data to analyze equipment performance and develop targeted repair and maintenance activities, study the demand and plan production, devise environmental initiatives and ensure regulatory compliance, and analyze risks.
Energy

BI solutions for functional areas

We apply our business intelligence expertise to enable smart decision-making across all lines of business.

BI solutions for functional areas

Enterprise business intelligence

  • Enterprise-wide KPIs tracking and analysis
  • Financial reporting
  • Business profitability analysis
  • Operational intelligence
  • Business process optimization
  • Employee performance assessment

Finance intelligence

  • Financial KPIs tracking (operating cash flow, current ratio, net profit margin, working capital)
  • Financial performance analytics
  • Profitability and cost analysis
  • Budgeting and financial planning
  • Financial risks forecasting
  • Compensation and payroll tracking
  • Employee productivity analytics
  • Employee satisfaction analytics
  • Employee churn prediction
  • Workforce planning

BI for marketing and sales

  • High-value customers and leads identification
  • Marketing and sales campaign tracking and analysis
  • Marketing and sales channel performance assessment
  • Sales KPIs and metrics (growth, targets, opportunity, rate, per sales team, per sales rep) tracking and analysis
  • Sales forecasting and planning
  • Data-driven customer segmentation
  • Customer engagement analytics
  • Customer satisfaction and loyalty analytics
  • Customer lifetime value calculation
  • Customer behavior monitoring and forecasting
  • Customer retention analytics
  • Warehouse operations monitoring and analysis
  • Calculation of optimal stock levels
  • Forecasting inventory needs
  • Inventory planning
  • Warehouse labor demand forecasting
  • Production cycle tracking and analysis
  • Bottlenecks and shift performance analysis
  • Inventory control and procurement planning
  • Quality assurance
  • Equipment monitoring and maintenance scheduling
  • Production planning
  • End-to-end supply chain visualization
  • Supplier performance assessment and analysis
  • Logistics analytics
  • Order analytics and demand forecasting
  • Supply chain risk forecasting

Discuss your BI objectives with Itransition

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BI infrastructure services we deliver

Data integration

We set up quick consolidation of corporate information from your disintegrated internal corporate systems and third-party solutions by utilizing various integration methods.

Data quality management

Our team ensures you rely on accurate, timely, consistent, and complete data in your decision-making by properly setting and governing data cleansing processes.

Data storage

We offer data warehousing services for you to centralize business data and simplify the logic for its consumption with an enterprise data warehouse and other complementary storage solutions, such as a data lake and an operational data store.

Data analysis

We enable you to derive business insights with the help of various data analytics methodologies such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, data mining, and big data analytics.

Machine learning

&

data science

Itransition’s business intelligence experts implement data science, AI and ML capabilities into BI software to help you run advanced analytics queries to identify patterns, detect anomalies and major outcome drivers, and make accurate predictions and forecasts.

Data visualization

&

reporting

Itransition’s BI specialists ensure easy and correct analytics insights interpretation and actuation with visual and intuitive dashboards, scorecards, interactive reports, and user portals.

Data security & governance

We ensure corporate data is safely processed, stored, analyzed, and accessed by equipping BI solutions with comprehensive security features and setting up end-to-end monitoring and governance of BI workflows.

Mobile BI

Our BI specialists will provide instant access to high-quality, up-to-date data wherever and whenever you need it via mobile devices.

Self-service BI

We can enable non-technical users to manage data and conduct analytics using an intuitive interface and user-friendly analytics tools.

Technologies we work with

Data integration & quality management

  • Azure Data Factory
  • AWS Glue
  • Talend
  • Syncsort
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • AWS Data Exchange
  • Informatica PowerCenter
  • Striim
  • Azure Functions
  • Amazon MWAA
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • Pentaho
  • Azure Event Grid
  • Oracle Data Integrator
  • IBM InfoSphere Information Server
  • Fivetran
  • Azure Event Hubs
  • Databricks
  • SnapLogic
  • Matillion
  • Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services
  • Apache NiFi

Data storage

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Amazon ElastiCache
  • MySQL
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Amazon S3
  • Google BigQuery
  • Oracle
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • SAP HANA Cloud
  • Azure SQL Database elastic pool
  • Amazon RDS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Teradata
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Amazon DynamoDB

Data analytics

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services
  • Amazon Athena
  • Google BigQuery
  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

Data visualization

  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Amazon Quicksight
  • Apache Superset
  • Chartist.js
  • Altair
  • Fusion Charts
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • Metabase
  • seaborn
  • ggplot
  • D3.js
  • Qlik Sense
  • Looker Studio
  • Redash
  • bokeh
  • Infogram
  • Excel
  • QlikView
  • Google Cloud Charts
  • Datawrapper
  • Plotly

Data security management

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Azure Key Vault
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS KMS
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • Azure Firewall
  • Azure VPN Gateway

Artificial intelligence & machine learning

  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Amazon Rekognition
  • Google Cloud AutoML
  • NumPy
  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Amazon Lex
  • Google Cloud Dialogflow
  • NLTK
  • Azure Applied AI Services
  • Amazon Polly
  • OpenAI language models
  • XGBoost
  • Azure Bot Service
  • Azure Language Understanding
  • Scikit-learn
  • CatBoost
  • Azure LUIS
  • Google Cloud Vision API
  • SciPy
  • PyTorch
  • AWS Deep Learning AMIs
  • Google Cloud Natural Language AI
  • Matplotlib
  • TensorFlow
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
  • Seaborn

Complementary BI services we offer

Business intelligence implementation

As a business intelligence consulting company, we design and implement custom and platform-based business intelligence solutions through:
    • Conducting technology infrastructure evaluation and initial data audit
    • Analyzing our client’s business requirements and conceptualizing the BI solution
    • Outlining the optimal technology stack
    • Setting up BI solution components (ETL, an EDW, a data lake, OLAP cubes, analytics software, BI dashboards, and reports) and integrating them into the existing technology environment
    • Consolidating data from CRM, ERP, finance, marketing, and other corporate systems

    Business intelligence optimization

    Whether you are at the very start of your BI journey or you want to advance your BI maturity, we help you quickly adapt to the evolving data market, software capabilities, and changing business objectives by:
      • Conducting BI solution audits and identifying problem areas (data model size limitations, high operating costs, faulty ETL processes)
      • Running comprehensive system analysis (BI software performance, data quality, and security issues)
      • Drawing up sets of recommendations and implementing them if required

      Business intelligence support

      To maximize the return on your BI investments and ensure the steady performance of your BI software delivered by Itransition or any other software vendor, we offer a set of BI support services, which can cover:
        • Handling ad-hoc requests (adding a KPI, reconfiguring a security level, adding a connector)
        • Conducting maintenance activities, including system upgrades and security updates
        • BI platform administration, monitoring, testing, code review, and help desk services
        • User satisfaction management
        • Knowledge base (project documentation, user manuals, run books, metrics) maintenance

        Business intelligence testing

        To ensure the optimal performance of your BI solution as well as validate the accuracy of the analytics insights derived by it, we allocate dedicated QA teams to conduct the following:
          • ETL/ELT testing
          • Data warehouse stress, load, and scalability testing
          • Security testing, including role-based data access, data encryption, data masking, and data backup
          • Source data analysis audit for accuracy, completeness, and traceability
          • Reports and dashboards testing, including testing data accuracy and completeness, reports’ layout, KPIs validity, and accuracy of graphs and links
          • Migration and upgrade testing
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