Tasmanian businesses are already leveraging Business Analytics.

In a recent Gartner survey* CFOs cite "gaining business insight" and "improving business efficiency" as top business priorities.

ISW is Tasmania’s leading Business Analytics practice.

3 Facts you did not know about

Business Analytics!

*Gartner Financial Executives International (FEI) survey 2011.

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Some of our local Analytics clients

BENEFITS

Cripps Nubake

As one of Australia’s oldest and largest privately owned production bakeries, Cripps needed to improve reporting and modeling capabilities with an emphasis on optimising production cycles and reducing shelf wastage.

Cripps implemented the Cognos Express solution to take advantage of its proven integration with their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), modeling and reporting capabilities. This allowed a significantly faster turnaround to analyse information from their ERP system.

PROBLEM:

SOLUTION:

• Automation of manual reporting processes

• Provision of a unified view of different data

• Self service reporting capabilities via the adhoc query capabilities

• Flexible planning and forecasting solution

• Provision of what-if capabilities

Spirit of Tasmania

TT-Line Pty Ltd (Spirit of Tasmania) had a number of disparate data sets and was looking for a solution to deliver simplified reporting and improved budget and modeling capabilities.

Cognos Express was selected as a complete solution for budgeting and forecasting platform, integration with their ERP system as well as interfacing with their finance system.

BENEFITS

PROBLEM:

SOLUTION:

• Single view of disparate data

• Elimination of Excel based data silos

• Automation of complex business rules in to the budget process

• Real time consolidation and reduced reporting cycles

• Self-service and adhoc reporting capabilities

• Enhanced data governance and security

So what can business analytics do?

Is Business Analytics for you?

With a high-performance dashboard of your operation, Business Analytics can enable everyone in your organisation to make better decisions that achieve better outcomes.

Despite it’s ‘big-business’ perception, IBM has a scalable Business Analytics software solution to suit you. IBM Cognos Express is the first and only integrated intelligence and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize organisations.

IBM Cognos delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities at an affordable price.

ISW’s Business Analytics team

ISW’s Business Analytics practice is lead by Rod Jager. Rod is a CPA and has over 18 years of experience in Senior Finance and IT roles as well as an extensive consulting.

Rod is able to understand and align client requirements and strategies to meet desired outcomes through the use of business analytics applications.

Rod is supported by an equally capable team of experienced consultants and software engineers throughout ISW’s Australian offices.

Rod Jager CPA Mark Anderson BEc

Our offer to you

1. We need this! Let’s arrange a presentation pronto - email Mark Anderson on manderson@isw.net.au to arrange.

2. I’m interested! Please send me your ISW Analytics brochure - email Mark Anderson on manderson@isw.net.au for info.

3. I would like to attend a BA Workshop - email Mark Anderson on manderson@isw.net.au to register.

As a fellow Tasmanian business ISW is keen to help you leverage the power of this fantastic new tool. Which option below suits you?

isw.com.au 1800 456 001

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ABOUT ISW

ISW is a multi-award winning IBM Premier Business Partner focused on delivering innovative and intelligent business technology solutions. Certified across a broad range of software applications and infrastructure, including Business Analytics, we provide complete support for your IT project: consultation, licensing, development, implementation, cloud hosting and training.