Business intelligence consulting services
Across the board, your organization needs reliable, current, consistent data to provide the business intelligence (BI) you need to compete. This journey has many roadblocks. Do you recognize these in your own organization?
- Manual processes
- Inaccurate/inconsistent aggregated shared data
- Systems that don’t talk to each other
- No single source of reporting truth
- Frustrations with latency in turnaround time to provide key insights
- Reliance on IT for reporting
- Inadequate insights
- Minimal to no executive dashboards
- An inability to implement key performance indicators (KPIs) and/or key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Users who may not know how to use the tools they have
To become the data-driven organization you want to be, you need take a more enterprise-level approach, one that addresses everything from data governance strategy to data centralization and self-service capabilities. You need to home in on the end goal—actionable insights. Ask yourself, what will you do once you receive this information? What will this affect, and do you have your organization and your customers/constituents in mind? How will this move the needle?
Understanding these needs is why we start with the end in mind.
Our goal is to provide BI consulting services that generate timely, accurate, trusted information in a more organized and more automated fashion. These solutions give your people the ability to interact with and analyze your data so they can quickly come to the decisions needed to move forward with your strategic vision and mission. They also shift the paradigm from what was 20% analysis and 80% formatting/data modeling to true analytics and informed decision-making 80% of the time.
Business intelligence (BI)
RSM’s BI team specializes in both helping organizations understand their BI needs to support their long-term strategic goals and implementing BI solutions. BI refers to the information, tool and technology required to enhance decision making. It can be boiled down to three main concepts — integrating data into a usable format, the ability to consume the data easily and managing the data as an enterprise asset.
Why are our BI consulting services different?
RSM understands the importance of bringing the power of our entire firm to you, while seeking to understand your mission and vision and how a data-driven business strategy can help you reach your goals. BI is more than reporting and dashboards. It’s a cultural and operational shift that allows your organization to stay ahead of your competitors and grow. It addresses not only how your teams behave but the processes they adopt.
While you may need a data and reporting BI solution, you’ll likely require other services to achieve your goal. RSM provides services that cross every area of your organization. We have experienced industry, technology and service professionals whose skill sets range from tax and audit to risk analysis and risk management. When you work with us, you’re not just working with our data and digital services team—you’ve also got the power and experience of our 17,000-person-strong global firm.
We cover data and AI strategy, data and reporting governance, and your business intelligence services needs:
Data strategy
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Understand organizational data maturity with enterprise data assessments
- Current state
- Future state road map
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Architect data and the reporting environment
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Outline organizational best practices surrounding data
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Provide:
- CDO strategy
- Interim CDO management
- Master data management strategy
- Executive summary and enablement
- Project mobilization
- Process mining
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Address business workstream/process intelligence
- Analyze different business workstreams and processes
- Gain insight and visibility into business processes and objectives
- Become more efficient with business transformation and process improvement initiatives
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Develop enterprise data assessments
Data governance and framework
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Review, develop or provide:
- End-to-end landscape with management controls and governance
- Data program operating model
- Data governance enablement
- Data quality and business glossary/catalog
- Management controls to create standards for the management of data, reporting and data-related assets
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Define responsibility and ownership of enterprise data practices
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Leverage experienced, internal control professionals
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Understand and focus on risks and pain-points specific to each client
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Develop management controls
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Provide management of data and data-related assets
Data warehousing/lakehouse/architecture
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Provide a single source of enterprise data
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Integrate data from multiple internal and external sources
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Maintain historical business view
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Improve data quality and consistency
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Enable users to meet future strategic goals, use predictive analytics and view market trends
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Profile and understand data
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Document data and reporting requirements and needs
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Select and implement leading BI platforms and tools
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Provide dashboards and reporting
- Create interactive visualizations and BI capabilities
- Surface data for users and developers in an intuitive and convenient way
- Monitor company KPIs to align business vision and outlook
- Enable proactive decision making based on real-time data
- Provide analysis and insight into key drivers at the industry level
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Complete data modeling
- Develop visual representation of data in a business-oriented context
- Establish data definitions and standards
- Highlight relationship and interaction of various organizational concepts
- Represent the flow of enterprise data
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Consider big data/IoT
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Create data solution architecture
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Provide RSM proprietary methods and solutions for master data management (MDM) and data quality processes including the following:
- Data quality dashboards and scoring
- Match/merge (identity resolution) for master data (e.g., customer, vendor, product)
- Data enrichment
- Data cleansing
- Data cataloging
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Complete Boomi master data hub support
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Complete Profisee MDM platform support
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Support database administration systems
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Provide MDM that requires a combination of multiple service offerings
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