We are a management consultancy company dedicated to helping you find innovative business-driven ways of exploiting the value of your information resources. We specialise in the delivery of information to the decision-makers in your organisation, enabling you to maximise the potential of your information. We assist our customers in all stages of the development lifecycle, from initial analysis through to delivery and reappraisal. Depending on your needs, our consultants can act in an advisory capacity all the way to managing the whole project and developing a bespoke solution.

iFactor employs a partnership approach, working with you to understand your business processes. This provides us with the framework that we consider essential to deliver your required solution.

Scattered across your company is a wealth of information. This information could enable you to make better business decisions, thereby maximising earnings and minimising costs. However, this information is hard to find. It is often contained in countless different departmental systems or computer applications. Sometimes finding specific information from one of these systems can be very difficult. Often the information from these different areas of your business is inconsistent and unreliable. As a result, most executives are required to make critical business decisions without the necessary information. Decisions that affect the entire company are being made without a holistic, enterprise-wide view of your company and its operations. In this increasingly competitive and global market, continuing to make decisions in this manner can be detrimental to your company.

To understand your business and make accurate, fast and informed decisions, you need to consolidate and analyse large amounts of corporate data from a variety of host systems. Transactional data is extracted from operational databases, scrubbed, validated, and loaded into a Data Warehouse. The data is then accessed using a variety of business intelligent solutions that allow you to share information with all the decision makers in your business. The objective is to quickly turn data into information and provide it to end users in exactly the way they need it.

iFactor delivers management reporting solutions that range from standard reporting systems to ad hoc analysis environments. Management reporting solutions allow distributed business users to review detailed financial statements and operational statistics and better manage their business activities.

These reporting solutions include:

  • Multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) solutions that empower users to "slice and dice", to "drill down" or to "mine" and analyse detailed cubes of data.
  • Scheduled reporting based solutions that deliver information to desktops across your organisation as and when is required.
  • MS Office reporting solutions, maximising the potential of Excel Pivot Tables and Charts as well as MS Query and Visual Basic for Applications in Access and Excel.

Any of the above solutions can be made available to run across your local intranet, or can be hosted on your Internet site.

Our objective is to provide a solution that always meets or exceeds your expectations with the emphasis on producing a quality product, on time and within budget. We provide a phased implementation plan to meet your short, medium, and long term corporate objectives.

We enable you to keep up to speed with your business information, by offering a wide range of services, either as a one-off project or with ongoing support and development. Some of these include:

  • Data Extraction and Scrubbing - We use a variety of tools (e.g.: SQL, MS Query) to extract the relevant data from your host systems and ensure that only data that has been validated is available to decision-makers within your business.
  • Data Consolidation - Validated data from operational host systems is consolidated into a single Data Warehouse.
  • Data Analysis - It is vital to know which customers, products, channels or regions are profitable. We develop reporting solutions that enable you to interrogate your information.
  • Automated Reporting Solutions - Using Visual Basic (VB) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), we transform your manual processes into automated solutions, saving you time and providing you with a trusted source of valuable information.
  • Software Application Development - We develop both stand alone and integrated software solutions, meeting the information requirements of your organisation.
  • Business Process Analysis - Developing a business model for your organisation by analysing your existing structure and informational requirements.

As an outside observer, we are an unbiased advisor who can be called without the need for an in-house expert. Many companies are taking advantage of this type of service to keep internal costs down while accomplishing both short and long term goals.

Your information is vital to your company's stability and growth. iFactor respects this and the integrity of your information. All of our services are private, information is kept secure and in the highest confidence.

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