Beyond Simple Reporting
Date: Sunday , November 04, 2012
With the growing competition, every enterprise is critical about its business data and these days business intelligence is getting into the DNA of many of enterprises. Nalgan Technologies is a technology firm which specializes in designing BI solutions for businesses in Asia Pacific and North America, changing the way they look at their data. Founded by Dheeraj Nallagatla in 2009, the California based firm is focused on delivering unique, client-centric, end-to-end Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence solutions and specializes in BI, Cloud BI, Mobile BI and Offshore BI. Dheeraj Nallagatla shares his views and talks about how business intelligence market is transforming.
Investment on software and technology in India :
India is a strong and emerging market with a strong GDP growth rate. It is important for small and medium businesses to invest on software to run their operations. With "mobile" and "cloud computing" in play, there are even better opportunities for businesses to build automated processes using softwares like EPR, CRM, and others, at low cost. Over the past few years, many Indian businesses have invested on softwares, and have migrated to "digital" operations from "papers". This is a great move and this will enhance the investments towards the segment by Indian companies.
The Cloud and Mobile Reveloution:
Cloud and Mobile are changing the way people deal with infrastructure, softwares, data, and other aspects of life. It's now easier, faster and cheaper to build business applications. This promotes automation giving more options for companies, still at low cost.
Revolution in the BI segment:
From small businesses to the giants like Google, everyone is into analyzing their business. It is just that the practice is different. Depending on the various factors like size, industry, volume, and more, the way companies use their own data varies. I have seen companies who try to use every small piece of data that they generate, to analyze and make better decisions. On the other hand, there are companies who do not look at their business data as an asset. More and more Indian businesses are looking at "spending on software" as an "investment" rather than "expense", which is GOOD. SMBs are also using softwares from companies like SAP and Oracle to run their operations, this is helping them to digitalize their content. When their business data is digitalized (rather than on papers and non-interactive applications), the next step they would do is, analyze their business data or convert data into useful information. Here comes "Business Intelligence" into the game, helping businesses with better decision making and with new business opportunities. Number of Indian business getting into this space has been growing rapidly.
Understanding Customer - BI:
With the growing competition, it is important for every business to go beyond simple reporting to provide metrics that can be used to adjust operations and to understand more about their customers, products, services, and other aspects of the business. Businesses are collecting more data than they know what to do with. To turn this data into competitive gold, they will need new skills, software and new approach - "BI" - which enables advanced data visualizations, what-if data analysis, self service and mobile reporting equipping the user to take advantage of the mechanism.
Quality-Cost factor:
We are BI experts who understand business processes and data flow within the organization.This helps us in lowering our development cycles. We also understand technology - adoption of "mobile" is huge in Indian market. BI solutions that we build take advantage of cloud and mobile. This helps us to save time and cost on hardware and software. Hence, we tend to offer our quality solutions at low cost.
India vs. U.S. :
There is a difference between India and the U.S. markets in the way businesses operate or people work. Selling products or services in both the countries is different and need different methodologies. Last two years has been a great learning curve for us. We have sharpened our knowledge about the need of the Indian market and have developed customized solutions for our clients.
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