Corporate Modelling: Adding Analytics to BI

What is Corporate Modelling bringing to the marketplace?

Corporate Modelling as the name suggests is providing businesses with the tools and ability to model their organizations from top to bottom in a holistic manner. Not just a simple business process view or looking at business from a single process perspective but modelling using several different techniques and methods all in one single repository-based suite.

Often enterprise improvement projects suffer with issues relating to the weight of documentation required to support the project, the analytical tools not being integrated, business being separated from the analysts, and the general issues caused by teams trying to shortcut the methodology steps to meet tight deadlines. We noticed this and produced a tool set capable of being easily tailored to your methodologies and documentation requirements, fully integrated with MS Office, Visio, and MS Project as required.

What is its position in the current BI climate?

Corporate Modelling is providing a new perspective on the BI landscape. Rather than provide reports on the business as is we provide the ability to model your operational business as is, analyze these models using your chosen approach and methodology (six sigma, lean, FTE, ABC, operational risk, resource utilization, etc.) and then deploy new business practices and solutions. Some methodologies such as six sigma allow for continual improvement, and so we provide the ability to analyze and continually monitor these systems. Since we are repository based, the same data can be used in different projects at different times such as using process data for process improvement and later on for operational risk systems.

Can you tell us a little about the BPG (Business Processing Grid) you have developed that runs on top of Windows Compute Cluster?

When looking at the forward engineering aspects of deploying financial systems from the models, we identified that there was a perceived weakness in the current Microsoft offering dealing with high-volume batch processing. Working with Microsoft and Dell we founded the financial services grid initiative, www.fsgrid.com, to deliver a utility computing model on top of Windows Compute Cluster combining the power of Microsoft’s compute cluster for distributed calculations with Corporate Modelling’s Business Processing Grid for high-volume, fault tolerant batch processing with a reference architecture providing a complete set of software, hardware, and service providers to enable financial grid solutions with super computer throughput across a broad range of computing requirements.

What does that mean for financial services managers who want to improve their decision-making abilities?

It allows the new breed of managers and their consultants familiar with advanced analytical methods to create or adopt an enterprise improvement methodology, implement and manage improvement projects across their enterprise, and then develop and deploy the results of their labors on a utility Microsoft platform. No longer are they unable to deploy what they need or forced to buy and support multiple underutilized platforms within their operations. Combining these techniques with virtualization and the possibilities for driving businesses forward and continual improvement are endless.

You have a background in Unix and open-source development. Why did you choose Microsoft?

Business users deserve better. When developing modelling tools for business people and creating advanced ClickOnce Internet-deployed solutions, Microsoft’s platform provides the strongest user interface capabilities, development capabilities, and the widest range of professional components. Analytics and monitoring often involve models that can be prototyped in Excel and then deployed if required to the servers. Rarely are similar business tools found or widely used in the Unix or open source arena. Our users do not expect nor do they deserve second best.

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