DATA & ANALYTICS: RECLAIMING YOUR DECISION VELOCITY
Eliminate the 6-week reporting backlog and recover the 50% of analyst capacity lost to "Excel Workarounds."
Your Principal Data Engineers stop firefighting ad-hoc requests and focus on strategic insights.
WHERE ANALYST CAPACITY DISAPPEARS.
These five structural issues consume 50% of your Analytics Lead and Principal Data Engineer capacity before they can deliver strategic insights.
Silent Integration Failure
Data pipelines break after ERP updates causing days of undetected failures. Leadership makes decisions on stale data.
Shadow Reporting Compliance Risk
Finance teams create Excel workarounds outside governed systems, introducing data quality and audit risks.
6-Week Report Request Backlog
New KPI requests estimate 6-8 weeks due to backlog and tool complexity. Strategy waits for data.
Excel Workaround Dependency
BI tools time out or produce incorrect results forcing manual Excel manipulation. Analysts spend 50% of time on workarounds.
Database Performance Decay
Unoptimized SQL queries and Snowflake clusters cause BI tools to time out. Analysts lose hours waiting for data to load, forcing them into manual Excel workarounds.
HOW ALLARI ELIMINATES REPORT REWORK.
Definition Before Sprint
ID² forces complete requirement definition before any report development begins. No more "I'll know it when I see it" requests that consume 3x the estimated effort.
- Data source validation upfront
- KPI definitions locked before build
- Stakeholder sign-off required
2-Week Focused Bursts
Power of 15™ clears reporting backlogs in focused 2-week sprints. We don't add more bodies to a broken queue—we engineer the queue itself.
- 15-minute billing increments
- Velocity-optimized delivery
- Embedded Outcome Teams™
THE STRANGLER PATTERN FOR DATA.
Migrating BI tools (OBIEE → Power BI, Discoverer → OTBI, Cognos → Tableau) is a multi-year journey. The worst mistake? Pulling your Principal Data Engineers off legacy maintenance to build the new system.
Result: Legacy reports break. Leadership loses visibility. The migration stalls as analysts scramble to fix production issues.
The Strangler Pattern: Allari sustains the legacy reports—maintaining, fixing, and optimizing the old system—so your internal Analytics Leads can focus 100% on building the new dashboards.
Once the new system is validated, we sunset legacy incrementally. Zero degradation. Zero heroics.
BI TOOL MIGRATION — STRANGLER PATTERN
Zero degradation. Zero heroics. Incremental sunset.
BIaaS — BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AS A SERVICE
Allegiant Health: 225% ROI on BI Modernization.
A multi-facility healthcare manufacturer running JD Edwards 9.1 was losing 75 minutes per day to manual report compilation across 8 production lines. Allari deployed Microsoft BI and PowerPivot to replace spreadsheet-driven reporting with real-time operational dashboards.
Result: 75 min/day of manual reporting eliminated with full visibility across all 8 production lines — delivering 225% ROI.
VIEW FULL CASE STUDY225%
ROI ACHIEVED
75min→0
DAILY MANUAL REPORTING
8
PRODUCTION LINES VISIBLE
PLATFORM: JDE 9.1 + Microsoft BI / PowerPivot
Related sub-services
Report request tickets, BI tool access issues, data quality escalations
Report build standards, data model rules, BI tool workflows
Analytics backlog, BI tool upgrades, dashboard rollout coordination
Enable business users to build and modify their own reports and dashboards
Where is your analytics capacity leaking?
A 45-minute Analytics Capacity Audit reveals reporting backlogs, BI tool inefficiencies, and Excel workaround dependencies consuming your Principal Data Engineers' time.
AUDIT YOUR ANALYTICS CAPACITY GAP