Analytics

Competing on Analytics - Making relevant business information instantly available to more users - The Business User

Analytics have proven to provide competitive business outcomes with significant ROI for market leading companies, in a very short period of time.  Analytic companies realize that Analytics are an essential component of a companies strategy not an option if they wish to remain competitive. Business Analytics is focused on making informed actionable business decisions in support of a company's goals and objectives.

Business Analytics unlocks value for companies.  Business Analytics have as a foundation the decision or the business process one wishes to optimize as the primary driver.  Business Analytics use data to support the Analytics.  A recent report titled "Operational Analytics" prepared by BeyeNETWORK (May 2010) supports our approach of Business Process first, not data first. Too many companies focus on the data and try to identify actionable insights without knowing what decisions the data will influence.  By using the Business Process first, one is not constrained by the data or the lack of data and is instead focused on determining the right Key Performance Indicators to support the Business Process.  Business Analytics provide in near real time, actionable insights, transparency and perspectives into the drivers affecting performance and create the vehicle to drive fact based decisions. 

Analytic companies are those that use Analytics extensively and systematically to out think and out execute the competition

• Analytics are at the heart of acquiring, retaining, serving customers and saving money, maximizing revenues and profits
• Organizations must relentlessly make decisions about new and existing initiatives
• Business users need easy access to up to date information that provides for easy visualization, analysis and sharing with colleagues
• TDT brings sophisticated Business Analytics and Technology Solutions to its customers to enhance their competitiveness and profitability
• W.Edwards Deming (statistician, author and professor) coined the following:  "In God we Trust, all others bring Data"

The TDT Analytic Solution with Axel© is SaaS, web enabled, subscription model and provides:

• Statistical Analysis - What changed and Why?
• Forecasting and Extrapolation - What if trends continue?
• Predictive Modeling - What are possible outcomes?
• Optimization - What is the best outcome?   

Axel© is a new generation Analytic services platform created to embed analytics within businesses in a active form that allows businesses to understand and use them on a near real time basis in order to compete more effectively.  Its all about putting actionable information in the hands of the Business Users in near real time.  We accomplish this goal by providing a platform that measures analytics performance:

• by establishing KPI (Key Performance Indicator) hierarchies in viewable and actionable KPI bullet graphs with user customizable views
• by providing an analytics expression language that allows for ease of calculating KPI's from metric data
• by offering click-to-forecast and click-to-data functions for rapidly analyzing data trends and variances
• by providing predictor views of KPI models for quick what-if analysis
• and by incorporating self service customizable dashboards for continuous reporting and viewing of summary results

TDT's value to you is enhanced by its establishment as a SaaS (Software as a Service) instance which effectively increases collaboration across geographic and organizational boundaries.  Additionally by bringing you sophisticated Predictive and modeling Analytics we can help uncover new nuggets of opportunity.