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| MAY 2014 CIOReview | MAY 2014 CIOReview Visual BI Executives Empowered with Agile and Visually Intuitive Data for Actionable Intelligence T he promise of Big Data is that it can offer companies unprecedented opportunities for identifying and leveraging competitive advantages. But promises sometimes go unfulfilled. That’s been the experience of many executives who have found their BI solutions to be slow, expensive, difficult to use - and not all that insightful. That dissatisfaction, in part, explains the meteoric growth of Visual BI, one of the nation’s fastest-growing firms focused exclusively on providing business intelligence and analytics solutions. Based in Plano, Texas, Visual BI utilizes a KPI- driven, high-performance architecture that is agile, mobile and intuitive. Visual BI’s solutions enable a company-wide single version of truth, resulting in an organization fully aligned at all levels in their corporate goals and objectives - a massive competitive advantage. Visual BI offers comprehensive, end-to-end BI services, including real- time BI, self-service BI, mobile BI and decision analytics. Service offerings encompass industry and domain-specific solutions, custom visualization controls (SAP Dashboards and SAP Design Studio), and cloud-based analytics. Visual BI specialties include SAP BI/BW, SAP Business Objects, SAP HANA and SAP BPC, and visualization tools such as SAP Dashboards, SAP Lumira, Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire - and others. A Different Approach to BI The CEO and Founder of Visual BI, Gopal Krishnamurthy, recognized the failings inherent in many of the BI tools on the market, typically developed with a traditional bottom-up approach. “Our domain experts lead the process in developing personalized BI services utilizing a user-driven, top-down approach,” Krishnamurthy said. We find out what the users want and need; how they want their data to be sliced, diced and displayed. Whatever they want, whatever they need - we have the innovative drive and the technical expertise to make that happen. That’s how we create solutions that enable each client company to realize the greatest possible ROI from their BI investment.” Visual BI also ranks among the worldwide leaders in designing and implementing innovative executive KPI dashboards. “Our dashboards offer a unique blend of functionality and usability,” Krishnamurthy said. “They provide actionable, real-time information delivered in a visually intuitive format. They distill data from multiple sources and formats. And they can be accessed anytime, from anywhere, with any device.” The Future Looks Bright for BI - And for Visual BI Visual BI has grown rapidly from its start just four years ago. The Visual BI staff today is a large, rapidly growing team of industry/domain consultants, BI architects, UI designers and dashboard developers. The firm filed its first UI design patent in 2012. And in 2013, its DECCS 1.0 suite achieved SAP-certified integration with the SAP Business Objects BI suite. Visual BI’s solutions are used by many of the leading companies in the retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, chemicals, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Their client list provides confirmation that Visual BI’s mix of customized services and best-in-class industry solutions hits the sweet spot in meeting the BI needs of today’s companies. Look Forward, Think Ahead Not all companies are far-sighted enough to avail themselves of the competitive edge that Visual BI offers. And that heightens the opportunity for those companies that do seek the competitive benefits promised by BI. As Krishnamurthy noted, “If every company could buy a set of BI tools or products, then Business Intelligence would become so commonplace that the competitive differentiation offered by BI would no longer be a difference maker.” But for those companies that do make the investment in BI, Visual BI provides intelligence and analytics tools that help clients gain a clear competitive edge. Visual BI’s intelligence tools provide insights that empower key decision- makers with the critically important ability to look forward, and think ahead. And that’s what business intelligence is really all about. Gopal Krishnamurthy Big Data Analytics E nterprises are being caught up in the Big Data wave. As the market and the technologies are evolving, scores of Big Data solution providers are positioning themselves for leadership across different sub-divisions such as Analytics, Consulting, Infrastructure, Management, Visualization, Security Analytics, Apps and many more. Investing in the right tools and integrating the most appropriate technologies apt for the organization’s Big Data venture is a prime requisite to derive maximum profitability. For CIO’s and IT decision makers, the key lies in identifying the most relevant investment in line with the company’s goals to tackle the Big Data challenges. They have to see through the vendor hype and zero in on the most sound strategy, solution or product for Big Data analysis and predictions. The most rewarding vendor partnerships push the frontiers in Big Data innovations and excellence. In the last few months, our selection panel evaluated the capabilities of several vendors in the Big Data spectrum and have shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of optimally tackling the real explosion in Big Data volumes, variety and complexity. As a prelude to CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising Big Data Companies, our selection panel evaluated the capabilities of several vendors in this space to power onward the ‘Byte’ tsunami. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts and the editorial board of CIO Review selected the final 100. We present to you CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising Big Data Companies 2014. | | MAY 2014 1 CIOReview CIOREVIEW.COM MAY - 2014 The Navigator for Enterprise Solutions Company of the Month David Peters CEO, Emagine International In My Opinion: CIO Viewpoint: CXO Insight: Tom Wolf, SVP & CIO, MetLife Anjul Bhambhri, VP-Big Data, IBM Saffron Technology: Cognitive Computing For Everyone Gayle Sheppard CEO and Chairman Matt Wolken, VP & GM, Information Management Products, Dell Software 100 Most Promising Big Data Companies Leverages expertise in Business Intelligence & Analytics and competency in industry- and domain- specific business processes. Visual BI Solutions Inc Company: Gopal Krishnamurthy Founder and CEO Key Person: Big Data Analytics & Visualization Category: Description:
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Visual BIExecutives Empowered with Agile and Visually Intuitive Data for Actionable Intelligence
The promise of Big Data is that it can offer companies unprecedented opportunities for identifying and
leveraging competitive advantages. But promises sometimes go unfulfilled. That’s been the experience of many executives who have found their BI solutions to be slow, expensive, difficult to use - and not all that insightful.
That dissatisfaction, in part, explains the meteoric growth of Visual BI, one of the nation’s fastest-growing firms focused exclusively on providing business intelligence and analytics solutions. Based in Plano, Texas, Visual BI utilizes a KPI-driven, high-performance architecture that is agile, mobile and intuitive. Visual BI’s solutions enable a company-wide single version of truth, resulting in an organization fully aligned at all levels in their corporate goals and objectives - a massive competitive advantage.
Visual BI offers comprehensive, end-to-end BI services, including real-time BI, self-service BI, mobile BI and decision analytics. Service offerings encompass industry and domain-specific solutions, custom visualization controls (SAP Dashboards and SAP Design Studio), and cloud-based analytics. Visual BI specialties include SAP BI/BW, SAP Business Objects, SAP HANA and SAP BPC, and visualization tools such as SAP Dashboards, SAP Lumira, Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire - and others.
A Different Approach to BIThe CEO and Founder of Visual BI, Gopal Krishnamurthy, recognized the failings inherent in many of the BI tools on the market, typically developed with a traditional bottom-up approach. “Our domain experts lead the process in developing personalized BI services utilizing a user-driven, top-down approach,” Krishnamurthy said. We find out what the users want and need; how they want their data to be sliced, diced and displayed. Whatever they want, whatever they need - we have the innovative drive and the technical expertise to make that happen. That’s how we create solutions that enable each client company to realize the greatest possible ROI from their BI investment.”
Visual BI also ranks among the worldwide leaders in designing and implementing innovative executive KPI dashboards. “Our dashboards offer a unique blend of functionality and usability,” Krishnamurthy said. “They provide actionable, real-time information delivered in a visually intuitive format. They distill data from multiple sources and formats. And they can be accessed anytime, from anywhere, with any device.”
The Future Looks Bright for BI - And for Visual BIVisual BI has grown rapidly from its start just four years ago. The Visual BI staff today is a large, rapidly growing team of industry/domain consultants, BI architects, UI designers and dashboard developers. The firm filed its first UI design patent in 2012. And in 2013, its DECCS 1.0 suite achieved SAP-certified integration with the SAP Business Objects BI suite.
Visual BI’s solutions are used by many of the leading companies in the retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, chemicals, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Their client list provides confirmation that Visual BI’s mix of customized services and best-in-class industry solutions hits the sweet spot in meeting the BI needs of today’s companies.
Look Forward, Think AheadNot all companies are far-sighted enough to avail themselves of the competitive edge that Visual BI offers. And that heightens the opportunity for those companies that do seek the competitive benefits promised by BI. As Krishnamurthy noted, “If every company could buy a set of BI tools or products, then Business Intelligence would become so commonplace that the competitive differentiation offered by BI would no longer be a difference maker.”
But for those companies that do make the investment in BI, Visual BI provides intelligence and analytics tools that help clients gain a clear competitive edge. Visual BI’s intelligence tools provide insights that empower key decision-makers with the critically important ability to look forward, and think ahead. And that’s what business intelligence is really all about.
Gopal Krishnamurthy
Big Data Analytics
Enterprises are being caught up in the Big Data wave. As the market and the technologies are evolving, scores of Big Data solution providers are positioning themselves for leadership
across different sub-divisions such as Analytics, Consulting, Infrastructure, Management, Visualization, Security Analytics, Apps and many more.
Investing in the right tools and integrating the most appropriate technologies apt for the organization’s Big Data venture is a prime requisite to derive maximum profitability. For CIO’s and IT decision makers, the key lies in identifying the most relevant investment in line with the company’s goals to tackle the Big Data challenges. They have to see through the vendor hype and zero in on the most sound strategy, solution or product for Big Data analysis and predictions.
The most rewarding vendor partnerships push the frontiers in Big Data innovations and excellence. In the last few months, our selection panel evaluated the capabilities of several vendors in the Big Data spectrum and have shortlisted the ones that are at the forefront of optimally tackling the real explosion in Big Data volumes, variety and complexity.
As a prelude to CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising Big Data Companies, our selection panel evaluated the capabilities of several vendors in this space to power onward the ‘Byte’ tsunami. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts and the editorial board of CIO Review selected the final 100.
We present to you CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising Big Data Companies 2014.
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T h e N a v i g a t o r f o r E n t e r p r i s e S o l u t i o n s
Company of the Month
David PetersCEO, Emagine International
In My Opinion: CIO Viewpoint: CXO Insight:Tom Wolf, SVP & CIO,MetLife
Anjul Bhambhri, VP-Big Data, IBM
Saffron Technology:
Cognitive Computing For EveryoneGayle Sheppard
CEO and Chairman
Matt Wolken, VP & GM, Information Management Products, Dell Software
100 Most Promising Big Data Companies
Leverages expertise in Business Intelligence & Analytics and competency in industry- and domain-specific business processes.
Visual BI Solutions IncCompany:
Gopal Krishnamurthy Founder and CEO
Key Person:
Big Data Analytics & VisualizationCategory:
Description:
