Business Intelligence is best described as the streamlining of business best practices, reporting, and integration of data whether it be in one software solution or many, anytime, anywhere, on any platform creating an interface or dashboard to best manage data and “provide insight.”

One of the greatest difficulties of an organization is no longer just the disjointed data sets in the departments such as Human Resources, Customer Service, Sales, Transport and Logistics, Warehousing, and IT, but the continued operating process changes across all departments to achieve continuous business improvement.

This therefore requires the integration of custom built solutions, Legacy Systems, databases and name brand solutions such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, excel, access databases, on multiple platforms or a single platform requiring intelligent plugins into a dashboard or multiple interfaces for the delivery of quality information and results within an organization.

Dake is in the intelligence business, as our team performs various research and analysis consultations for the effectiveness of best practices to ensure the right interfaces for the right people at the right time are provided with the trusted data sources, applications and business processes to allow people to collaborate around analytics and make decisions that close the loop between strategy and execution.

Common functions are reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive analytics, CRM business intelligence, Supply Chain Management Analytics, Management Information reporting, Executive Information reporting, Accounting Intelligence, Performance Intelligence, Dashboards and interfaces, Budget & Forecasting, Finance Intelligence, Activity based costing, business and balanced scorecards, Marketing Intelligence, Sales Intelligence, Operational Intelligence,  Business Process Discovery, Data warehousing, Decision Engineering, Document Intelligence, Location Intelligence, Meteorological Intelligence, Seasonal Intelligence and customer dynamics.

 A 2009 Gartner paper predicted these developments in the business intelligence market. 

• Because of lack of information, processes, and tools, through 2012, more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets.
  
  
• By 2012, business units will control at least 40 percent of the total budget for business intelligence.
  
  
• By 2010, 20 per cent of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via software as a service as a standard component of their business intelligence portfolio.
  
  
• In 2009, collaborative decision making emerged as a new product category that combines social software with business intelligence platform capabilities.
  
  
• By 2012, one-third of analytics applications applied to business processes will be delivered through coarse-grained application mashups.
  

Working with companies that have multiple legacy systems and boundaries such as SAP, Oracle, excel, access databases, Microsoft (SQL), and custom database development all within the same single client environment, DAKE has the experience, knowledge, and products to quickly and seamlessly convert your data depositories into Intelligence Repositories and work to your advantage.

Dake Business Intelligence Methodology allows for a standard solution customized specifically to the needs of their client or using our Generic Data Hub, allowing proven principles to manage data and the most valued assets. It is in the Best interest of a corporation not to remain operating with disparate systems as quasi business intelligence, when Dake can deliver the full solution.

For information on building a custom Business Intelligence Solution or to talk with a competent Business Intelligence Developer email sales@dake.co.za.