Business Intelligence

Data does not make you smart – especially when it is spread throughout your organization, hidden in e-mails, sunken in automated reports and trapped in antiquated databases.

Or more likely, your agency doesn’t suffer from a lack of information. Rather it’s weakened by having its important data far too dispersed and out of context to be useful.

Business Intelligence is about getting the information you need in the right format to the right people at the right time. It’s a set of applications and technologies designed to gather, store, analyze and deliver data. And it empowers every employee by supplying them with vital information so they can work better, faster and smarter.

Common Questions

With information coming from so many sources and formats, how can I integrate it into one system?
What can we do to use the wealth of information our organization produces to achieve our mission?
How can I create one reliable source of information among a sea of varying reports and documentation?

Services

From planning your initial strategy and establishing a data infrastructure to implementing visualization and analytic tools, we can help.

Planning and Strategy

You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint that takes into consideration your current and future needs. The same is true for developing a Business Intelligence strategy. We can help you:

Determine your tactical and strategic agency needs
Assess BI readiness both from an agency and technical perspective
Find out how to leverage your existing investments in technology, and help you select vendors and tools that make sense for your organization

Ironworks has a sound, proven methodology for working with our clients to create a realistic strategy for success throughout the planning cycle.

Infrastructure

Keep more of your assets. Everyday, important information about your agency and its processes slip through the cracks. Data warehouses, data marts and ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) Services can help.

Provide a “single version of the truth” for your agency information requirements
Create a centralized repository for information based on a common organization taxonomy
Develop automated processes for delivering timely information

We’ll enable your organization to collect, integrate and analyze important information from a variety of systems into one central source.

Visualization

Scorecards
Perspective is everything. If the information you need is not in the context you need, it simply loses value. Scorecards allow you to view your organization's vital information in one place, when you need it.

Create a “strategy map” – an effective way to illustrate the causal drivers of performance and outcomes
Give key decision makers the ability to monitor the leading indicators of future performance
Provide an “at a glance” look at the key performance indicators that drive overall organizational health

No matter the size of your organization or its complexity, we can help you access and manage key performance indicators, strategy updates and planning and budgeting activities in real-time by using scorecards, dashboards and financial analytics.

Agency Reporting
Share your knowledge. A centralized and accessible agency reporting solution will not only save you time and money, it can help you share vital information throughout your organization or with other agencies.

Create a centrally managed, secured and accessible location for all of your transactional reporting needs
Give your employees the opportunity to subscribe to a report that is delivered to them when they need it and in the format most useful to their individual needs

Reduce the complexity of creating, managing and delivering production level reports. By implementing an agency reporting solution, a single report can be published in multiple delivery channels (i.e. e-mail, .pdf, etc.) and custom fit to your organization’s current processes.

Analytics

On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
An analyst’s dream is to have a single pool of data with all of its relationships defined. This allows them to spend their time doing analysis rather than writing queries or matching disparate data sources. On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) makes this possible. Beyond just reporting, OLAP allows for dimensional analysis of your data and gives the analyst a sandbox for analyzing a series of measures across multiple dimensions.

Gives analysts pivot table views of data
Controls source data while serving many different analyst’s needs
Provides the end-user the speed they require

Data Mining Services
Find the hidden gems within your terabytes of data. Data mining uses advanced algorithms and statistical methods to find information that can’t be seen by the human eye.

Turn your reactive measures into proactive alerts, get a ahead of your agency process

What makes us different?

100 percent client satisfaction - talk with our existing BI clients about working us
National System Integrator and Managed Gold Certified Microsoft Partner - We are one of only seven Managed Gold Microsoft Partners in the Mid-Atlantic region. This has given us significant mind-share opportunities with Microsoft
Integrated design and development teams
Focus on effective information architecture
Scalable and responsive to local and enterprise needs
Not wedded to any software or solution, meaning you'll receive unbiased consultation based on extensive experience in system platforms and software

Ironworks Government Solutions delivers experience, creativity and know-how each time. Our teams are staffed with industry experts and consultants who focus only on what they know best. Because we don’t try to be everything to everyone, our experts stay experts and our new clients become returning clients.