We bring actionable intelligence to our clients' business strategies and operations through outsourcing best practice data warehouse integration, analytics, and performance management services.

Why Outsource Business Intelligence?

Our outsourcing solutions offer the following benefits to our clients:

Quality
We are experienced in all of the leading business intelligence technologies and are able to provide ‘best of breed' solutions to our clients. When appropriate, we can ensure our clients are up to date on the latest software releases and execute best practice to avoid costly upgrades at the last minute.
Our range of business intelligence skills encompasses expertise such as ETL, Data Quality, Database Management, Modelling, Reporting, Activity Based Costing, Risk and Analytics.

Time
Our outsourcing solutions are available on demand and we are well positioned to respond to the ‘peaks' and ‘troughs' associated to our clients' requirements. We guarantee that our services will be available when our clients' need them.

Cost
When our clients account for the costs associated with running their internal BI resources (recruitment fees, salaries, training costs, management costs), our outsourcing solutions have proven to be a more cost effective option. Our flexible costing model ensures that we remain competitive.

Are You Ready to Outsource?

For clients that are new to business intelligence and are aware of its benefits, outsourcing can be a quick, viable option that provides a low total cost of ownership.

• Has Microsoft Excel/Access been stretched to its limits?
• Is data quality an issue that needs addressing?
• Are there inconsistencies in ‘final versions' of data and/or reports?
• Is the high cost of owning proprietary business intelligence software is making it prohibitive?

Alternatively some clients may have already invested in business intelligence, but outsourcing can still reap significant benefits.

• Are resources spending unnecessary time on consuming tasks such as data extraction, integration and cleansing?
• Are alternative IT projects being delayed because of the costs allocated to business intelligence?
• Do maintenance costs exceed the value business intelligence brings?
• Could outsourcing solve some of your costly infrastructure issues?

Whatever stage our clients are at, we can provide an outsourcing solution tailored to their specific business needs. Our footprint covers a broad geographical range and we are able to offer both onshore and offshore options. We are also able to offer solutions in multiple languages.

Outsourcing Options

Option 1 - Licences Remain at, and Licensed to, the Client
We access our clients' software licences to enable us to derive intelligence on their organisation.
This option enables the client to keep its existing agreement intact and maintain a direct relationship with their software vendor, which can useful if the client wants to directly derive future benefits from its software vendor.

If for any reason the outsourcing arrangement should end, the client keeps its licences, eliminating the risk of repurchasing.

Option 2 - Transfer or Assigning of Licences to Business & Decision
This is similar to Option 1 but we take over the organisation's licences and become the licensee.
This option enables the client to make cost savings as it does not have to manage licences and software vendors on a routine basis. We will outline how we will manage software vendor contracts in our outsourcing contract and this will include detailed principles and ground rules for further purchases, including standard software licence terms.

On termination of the outsourcing contract, the licences would be signed back to the client or an alternative outsourcer, for an agreed value.

Option 3: Use Business & Decision's Licences
We have our own licences and by utilising these, substantial cost savings can be passed onto our clients.