Our expertise ranges across the full spectrum of data and information technology services covering:

Data Platform Implementation – A Data Platform Implementation is like setting up a smart, organized kitchen for your business data. It collects, stores, and processes information from different sources, ensuring everything is clean, accessible, and automated. This means no more scattered spreadsheets—just real-time insights, faster decision-making, and a system that scales as you grow.

Business Intelligence Analysis – Business intelligence analysis is a specialised field. Many of today’s business intelligence solutions are deemed unsuccessful by business and a big contributing factor to this is the skill set, or rather lack of skills, in the business intelligence analyst. BIA have a white paper where the role and importance of a business intelligence analyst is discussed in more detail.

Database design, deployment and support – BIA has a rich level of expertise in database design, deployment and support. Our staff have served on the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) of Microsoft with SQL Server databases. Due to the expertise we have, our solutions in database performance have been presented at the Microsoft National BI Conference in South Africa (2008).

Data warehouse design, deployment, and support. Our staff have enterprise experience in data warehouse design, deployment and support working on data warehouses of multi terabyte size and transacting billions of records per day.

Dashboard and scorecard design, deployment, and support. Our staff specializes in dashboard and scorecard design. This is an art! Many solution providers have a “one size fits all” approach where a certain technology is used for a dashboard or scorecard design. BIA believes that a dashboard or scorecard needs to align with the information maturity level of the organization to provide maximum benefit to the company. There are examples of dashboard and scorecard implementations that use the latest technologies and have everything that opens and shuts but only have three users for an enterprise because the designed solution did not align with the corporate information maturity and therefore was not used by the business. BIA prides itself in understanding the business, the business information maturity, and the company cultures which allows the implementation of a value-added product.

Reports. Our motto is “Get answers from your data, not just another report”. Some companies pride themselves on the number of reports they produce. BIA prides itself in the number of reports used daily in an organization. This testifies to the value of the reports we design. The reports align with the information maturity of the organization as well as the company culture and objectives thus providing reports that give answers to business challenges and add value to the organization.

Data Quality (DQ). This is one of the most important components of a data management strategy, yet the one most frequently overlooked. Data quality is paramount to effective reporting and decision making. BIA have the expertise for robust data quality processes and have implemented DQ processes with great benefits to organisations. Reports are only as good as the quality of the data in the reports.