Introduction
My name is Emil Glownia and together with my wife Katie we decided to fill in gap in the UK market.
Every large company would like to have clear picture of the entire organizations but inside the big company there are groups of people that make the business grow and they need to make better decisions quickly. They are not interested in everything that happens in the business BUT they are interested in the KEY factors that when in control makes a real difference.
What we do & don't do?
We don't offer to integrate every single source of data and give you 360 degree view of your organization because that would take very long time and most likely part of it would be out of date when completed. What we offer instead is requirements driven BI solution that covers key factors that makes your business a more successful business.
We don't want to deliver a system for entire business; we want to deliver a system for a specific group of people that make frequent operational or tactical key decisions and are in a need of a system that will help them to make their decisions faster and use data that is more reliable. Better & quicker decisions makes your business a more successful business.
We don't build a system where users are left alone when it comes to reporting. This is "the last step" and it is critical so we will listen to the requirements and deliver bespoke reports & dashboards with most suitable data visualization that makes process of making decisions quick & accurate and that makes your business a more successful business.
Do we create a bespoke system that cannot be used by anyone else? Definitely NOT! We build systems that can be put together and create an enterprise level system that can be used by entire business. Usually to reach this point you will need a number of permanent employees to support, develop and make required changes and even at this point we will help you by providing guidance and training so when we eventually leave; you are left with a system that you can expand easily and you have people that can look after it; when we are gone.
What else do we do?
If it is not a greenfield project than you will often have a team of permanent people and want us to work alongside on a specific project but sometimes you will see that your team altough talented and hardworking is struggling with delivering value to the business and although the system is "technical state of the art" it has technical reasons behind it but has not been built for business needs and that is where we can help.
We provide training for both business & technical people to bridge the gap that started a few decades ago. We explain processes, approach, explain technical matters in plain English (also to technical people) and ensure that everyone speaks "the same language" because without it your business users will get a solution that they don't understand or misunderstand and will not want to use it.
We work on small group of specific users and teach language that everyone will understand and can be passed on to the rest of people and we believe this is critical to make your business a more successful business.
Overview of our skills:
We are small consulting company and we want to stay small! We want to deliver quality solution that have real value. If we grew we would most likely become "Jake of all trades, master of none" and we want to be Masters of Business Intelligence Solutions. In order to achieve that we limit ourselves to a vendor that from our perspective is the best long term solution for these kind of requirements and suits our learning style. We decided to be Master of Microsoft Business Intelligence Solutions.
For more information visit What Microsoft has to offer. BI Platform
We cover the following Microsoft products:
SQL Server 2012 (and 2008 R2 / 2008)
SQL Server BI Tools:
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Integration Services (ETL)
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Reporting Services
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Analysis Services (cubes + tabular models)
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Master Data Services (part of Master Data Management)
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Data Quality Services (a tool that deal with "imperfections" that no matter how hard you try you will always get).
Microsoft Excel with PowerPivot.
We often work in Microsoft SharePoint environments althought this is outside of our key specialties.
Additionaly we deliver our solutions by building a data warehouse (or data marts) using Kimball methodologies which we believe is the best "filler" for the gap we are trying to fill in.
