Finesse: Cost-effective Alternative for the Giant Players of the Industry Date:   Wednesday , October 08, 2014 Latest Gartner surveys confirm that the number of CIOs who believe \'big data will replace their existing analytical infrastructure\' has taken a nosedive to 3 percent. It is mainly because CIOs realize that it makes more sense to amalgamate big data with the unassailable data warehousing space that has numerous revolutionary breakthroughs. Big data has opened a way to the expansion of enterprise data warehousing and raised the bar. Passing the bar smoothly by bringing together advanced technology and robust infrastructure by leveraging their extensive domain & technology expertise is Finesse, a cost-effective global company providing data warehousing services. Finesse was founded in Middle East by Raju Ramesh, CEO and Sunil Paul, COO in 2010 as a pure system integration company with key focus on BFSI sector. BFSI is still their primary focus, since the tech savvies with experience over quarter century are keen on adapting to the new technologies. Unified Solution \"Everyone in Finesse\'s 15 Plus member leadership team takes responsibility for one territory, one technology domain and a functional domain. These inter-dependent leaders complement each other to provide a unified solution,\" says Sudheer Kumar Raju, Director & CTO, Finesse. Since Finesse is not confined within a field, they approach their customers with a complete out of the box solutions tailored to their needs. The company adds tremendous value to their customers by providing an end-to-end integration. \"We offer complete BI & Analytics programme from strategy to execution that would enable customers to gain real-time business insights, customer insights and competitive insights to make more informed business decisions,\" says Sunil Paul, Co-Founder & COO, Finesse. \"While it is quite fashionable to talk about Big Data the reality is that the vast amount of data that enterprises consume come with some serious challenging legacy data quality issues. Most of the time when these transaction-processing systems were designed, one thing that architects failed in visualization is the pace of data accumulation within these as well as reference systems. This is precisely why we suddenly see data architects being in heavy demand. There is no other alternative for enterprises to avoid going into a onetime massive data cleansing exercise. The sooner they do it the better; else the problem just starts to grow with the data. Today, there are some pretty good data quality toolsets available that can even give a huge automation advantage to the effort. This is precisely what we do at Finesse. Data warehousing is also about making the right data available. We can start by doing the dirty job of cleaning and at the other end build the sophisticated data architecture models to be ready for data explosion tomorrow,\" says Raju Ramesh, CEO & Co-Founder of Finesse Finesse has partnered with several BI vendors from Qlik, SAP, ORACLE, Tagetik, Software AG, Kofax, OpenText and many more who acts as the resellers and implementers of their products. It enables the company to present their clients with multiple choices of solutions unlike other companies who force customers to use one product/solution. The company understands customer requirement and propose the appropriate solution they require to achieve their goal. Finesse\'s team works closely with customers to design enterprise wide BI strategy, build an optimized data warehouse and then integrate with information delivery tools. The company has over 200 talented employees across the globe. The passionate team identifies and implements the best practices in the industry and leverage on real life experience to implement solutions that are proven and best suited to their clients. Although it is quite challenging to shine amongst the big players in the industry, Finesse has prevailed over the heavy competition with their expertise and processes combined with their domain knowledge earned from vast experience. Today, the company has become a forerunner which is manifest by the fact that they are engaged with 7 out of 10 major banks in the Middle East region. Finesse has reached revenue of US $8 million in a short journey of four years and the company targets to reach $100 million in another six years. Having numerous technology vendors in their portfolio, the company is growing at a rate of 60 percent each year. They aim to expand their territory and intend to grow in all three dimensions (vertical, technology and delivery stream). The company is keen on remaining as the cost-effective alternative for the big players in the market. Panel: Management: Sudheer Kumr Raju, Director & Global CTO of Finesse is an experienced and knowledgeable Technocrat with a distinguished career spanning over a period of 2 decades. Sudheer has a keen eye for quality and process compliance for better customer deliverables and a history of improving efficiency and customer service by diligent following of best practices for timely and quality value delivery. Offerings: Finesse is segregated into a 3 dimensional entity offering 3 different technologies (Business Intelligence & Analytics, Enterprise Content Management and Governance & Risk Compliance) delivering through 3 delivery streams (Cloud, Mobile and social media) in 3 domains BFSI, education and healthcare which has now extended to energy, hospitality and retail. Clients: With their extensive experience in Business Intelligence & data warehousing, Finesse has flabbergasted countless huge clients including BMI, Mc Donalds, Network International, Boehringer Ingelheim, Du, Etisalat, RSA, XEROX to name a few. Offices: The Dubai headquartered company has spread across Bangalore, Canada, Singapore, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait. Achievements: Finesse�s competency is eminent with several awards they have won akin to Red Herring Global Top 100 System Integration Company and Winner of Integrator ICT Champion Software Solutions Integrator - 2014 among others. Perspective on Finesse (CEO Quote) Raju Ramesh, CEO of Finesse framed the company in context. \"We are by all accounts, being a four-year-old company, a product of the new age, the age of the mobile device, cloud and social media. As a result, we do not carry any baggage in our mindset. Neither do we have any legacy IP or software investments to protect or move into the new technology. This clean slate helps us put the customer first when we design a solution\". Sunil Paul, COO at Finesse added, \"We more often than not find that customers like how we give them a perspective with respect to the world before as well as in front of us. It is important that both customers and vendors learn from each other. Knowledge is the key to our success. And that is why we place so much emphasis on talent management\".