Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 32 | Page 66

INDUSTRY WATCH and daunting. There are multiple data interpretation platforms today that enable individuals at all levels to understand storytelling. Building a culture of data literacy has never been easier and there is an opportunity to collaborate around a common point of reference and to set collective business goals and performance metrics across the business. Transcendent UI is creating an opportunity for organisations to become more proactive in their decision-making and more focused on their improvement initiatives. Data can be the new gold; the business just has to understand the best way to mine it. The new tools and technologies introduced need to recognise the needs of the business and the people that populate it. Not all technology is created equally, the solution must be relevant for the business within its own sector, strategic imperative and focus. Within the mesh of technology and the individuals lies the true business story. It is time to get out of spreadsheets and into an interactive, visual landscape that supports the organisation’s ability to ask the right questions of the data. You can’t get the answers if you don’t know the Trackmatic develops its technology solutions across the supply chain with transcendent BI as the ultimate end outcome. He help clients to perfect their business flow by providing all key stakeholders in the value chain with understandable, relevant and actionable insight about their operations – in real-time. TRACKMATIC DEVELOPS ITS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN WITH TRANSCENDENT BI AS THE ULTIMATE END OUTCOME. Creating a data literate organisation can shift the way people work together, collaborate and co-create business solutions to address inefficiencies and achieve greater levels of success. To unlock this trapped potential, an organisation has to find the right BI tool that allows for the business to get simplicity from complexity. questions. The solution has to be capable of centralising the data and visually guiding the analysis in the right direction, in real- time, and defining clear focus areas that will make the most crucial business impact. BI tools should facilitate powerful questioning and equip the user with the ability to seek critical insights. If your BI is not providing answers capable of transforming your business, then you are not getting a return on investment and might as well go back to spreadsheets The Trackmatic Insight module empowers clients with the ability to measure the right metrics and deliverables across inbound and outbound logistics to radically improve their business performance. The idea is for clients to rollout Trackmatic’s full enterprise ecosystem across their business so that each touch point feeds back critical information about the business and areas of inefficiency into one centralised executive dashboard that guides business decision making. n BI systems that provide users with visualisation tools that can represent the data in ways that everybody understands, have significantly better results. It allows users to explore innovative ways of interpreting and sourcing the data. If every person in the business can look at the same piece of data and understand what it means, then it is capable of achieving its purpose. It will break down the intellectual barriers in departments and the silos within which people operate to provide a macro view of the organisation. In this, the business can improve skill sets, enhance performance, and establish a robust culture of data resilience and innovation. 66 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com