Business Intelligence Solutions

Overview

Bowline Solutions Inc. is a certified small business located in Herndon, Virginia. Our primary focus is leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) tools and techniques in order to support our clients in making well-informed business decisions. Our goal is to deliver business information in an actionable way to those that need it to do their jobs – to convert information into insight.

Critical to this process is analyzing the underlying data within an organization and understanding its business value. Why are you collecting the data you are collecting? What could your business information do for you if it were delivered quickly and usably into the hands of decision makers? Answering these questions is an important first step in the process of making BI work for you and will serve as the foundation of a BI strategy that details your organizational goals over several years.

In executing against your strategy, it’s critical that your approach is dynamic enough to allow for changes in your information and BI requirements. You should also be able to produce results rapidly and show an improved ability to react to your business information in insightful ways.

Challenges

Business information at an enterprise level can be difficult to map out. In many cases it’s difficult to determine who manages the information, let alone reveal its true business value. Without gaining an understanding of where the information is and why it’s being gathered a strategic plan is virtually impossible to implement.

The number of COTS product vendors is dwindling rapidly as the market consolidates. Concurrently, the number of products each vendor carries is increasing. This makes it very difficult to determine which vendors and products are applicable to your strategy! Finally, unless you adopt the right methodology, your BI initiatives can become costly embarrassments.

The Alternatives

Your organization can tackle BI initiatives internally. This requires an examination of your underlying information and BI requirements from an external/independent perspective. Once a sound strategy is formulated based upon industry best practices, a firm grasp of all available vendors and products is necessary. Lastly, you must be able to quickly execute your strategy in a way that shows rapid results and encourages user acceptance. You might also seek advice from COTS vendors to bolster your knowledge.

How Bowline Solutions Can Help

Bowline Solutions brings over six years of experience and knowledge of the BI market to the table, with a keen eye on industry best practices and a sound methodology that delivers predictable results rapidly. Let us help you realize the business value of your information stores and apply the appropriate BI tools and techniques to deliver it usably into the hands of your decision makers. Let us help you convert information into insight.

Bowline Solutions leverages best of breed COTS software solutions based upon your unique requirements. Our strategic partnerships allow us to deliver focused planning, implementation, and training across a broad spectrum of Business Intelligence toolsets. See our partners page for more details.