Business Intelligence
Get the insight you need to make decisions
It’s easier than you think
Business Intelligence (BI) transforms raw data into actionable insights, enhancing decision-making and improving operational efficiency. With real-time reporting and dashboards, BI can help quickly identify trends and opportunities.
There are many tools that can assist in this process, including user-friendly options available as part of platforms like Microsoft 365. We can help you get the most out of these as well as providing support when more challenging needs arise, whether automating the ingestion of data from a variety of sources, curating and labelling to improve data quality and access controls, or enriching data with advanced analytics or machine learning to drive new insights and decisions.
We can offer clear, straightforward advice in relation to Business Intelligence
- BI Strategy Development: Crafting a tailored roadmap for BI adoption, aligned with business goals and data strategy.
- Data Integration: Connecting and integrating data from multiple sources (ERP, CRM, cloud, and third-party systems) for a unified view.
- Dashboard and Reporting Solutions: Designing and implementing customisable, real-time dashboards and reports for insights and decision-making.
- Data Warehousing: Creating centralized data repositories and processing pipelines for storing, curating and augmenting business data, maximizing its value.
- Data Governance and Security: Using compliance polices and tecnology to deliver appropriate, high quality, trusted business data to your users.
Our Expertise
Case Study
Lee & Thompson
Enhancing Business Intelligence at Lee & Thompson
Lee & Thompson, a UK law firm, struggled to generate timely financial reports due to reliance on on-demand PDFs, hindering decision-making.
Chess recommended Power BI as a solution. During their 2019 migration to Microsoft 365, the firm identified limitations in their reporting system and set objectives for Power BI, such as immediate access to client fee reports.
Chess facilitated Power BI's integration into Microsoft 365, outlining requirements through collaborative sessions. The implementation of Power BI significantly improved Lee & Thompson's business intelligence, enabling partners to make informed decisions efficiently.
"The integration of Power BI has empowered our partners with up-to-date business and financial data, allowing them to make critical decisions for the whole of our practice. This in turn improves profitability which generates funds to invest in our people, technology and working environment."
Simon Boyden
Chief Financial and Operations Officer, Lee & Thompson
Our Approach
We're able to support each stage of your digital transformation journey and provide a service that reflects our key principles and behaviours of quality, passion and accuracy.
Consult
We collaborate with you to understand your unique business goals, challenges, and data needs. Based on this, we create a customised Business Intelligence strategy to help you make informed decisions and drive growth.
Deliver
Our team design, develop, and implement tailored BI solutions. We ensure seamless integration with your existing systems, focusing on data accuracy, intuitive reporting, and insightful analytics that align with your business objectives.
Adopt
We empower your team to harness the full potential of the new BI tools through hands-on training, workshops, and support. Our goal is to ensure your users can confidently use the system to make data-driven decisions every day.
Support
We provide ongoing support to maintain, optimise, and scale your BI solution as your business evolves. Regular updates, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring ensure your BI tools continue to deliver value over the long term.
Knowledge and Insight
eBook
People vs Technology: How to Bridge the Digital Skills Gap
Meet our team
Digital Transformation Director
Adrian Allan
Adrian is an experienced IT professional with over 15 years in the Industry, starting off his career as a Sharepoint Developer. Adrian now leads the Chess Digital team and oversees digital transformation and growth for Chess.
Creative Consultant
Don McIntyre
With over 25 years of experience in design and technology, Don has worked on digital products for companies like Virtuality, Oyster Partners, and Fraunhofer Institute. Currently, Don is Design Director at Glasgow School of Art and the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre.
Project Director
Chris Robb
Chris has a background across the software delivery lifecycle, and currently runs our various project teams.
An avid sailor and keen off-roader, Chris is equally happy anchored in a remote bay somewhere, sailing across an ocean, or bogged down to the doors in mud doing winch recoveries.
Development Team Leader
Darren Clark
Darren started of his career within the manufacturing sector and has been developing applications for over two decades. He is responsible for leading and mentoring a team of developers across the UK and has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure the client's requirements are satisfied.
Senior Developer
Neeta Bari
Neeta has extensive experience in all aspects of the Software development life cycle and is a Microsoft SharePoint expert, with excellent knowledge of full Microsoft 365 stack.
Senior Developer
Michal Mikielski
Michal has nearly 20 years of professional experience and is certified in application development, Azure, SharePoint and Scrum. He is always keen to learn new technologies or frameworks, while sharing knowledge and promoting best practices among the rest of the development team.
Developer
Gary Mulhall
Gary worked in various roles, from a brief stint in an M.O.T station, bar work and several years spent in retail while studying software development at university. Upon graduating in 2019, Gary was offered a graduate developer role with Chess. With 5 years of industry experience and knowledge he is now a key developer within the digital team.
Developer
Imram Khokar
Imram began his software development career as a Summer Intern at Chess in 2019. After graduating from university, he was offered a graduate developer role with the company.
Throughout his time at Chess, he has worked on a multitude of projects, spanning both front-end and back-end development.
Get in touch
We pride ourselves on being approachable and easy to work with.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of Digital Transformation and where you might need support or advice, let us know and we’ll do our best to help.
