Positive Thinking company | Data & Analytics

Scope

1. Data & analytics strategy

Define your own Data and Analytics strategy to create business value.

Data Strategy // Analytics Strategy // Analytics Roadmap // Data Science & AI Strategy

Today data is at the heart of every modern organization’s strategy to improve decision making, create a better customer experience and gain/develop its own competitive advantage.
To become a truly data-driven organization, where every decision is based on data, the first step is the definition of your own Data & Analytics strategy. This will enable you to ensure that you lay the right foundation for all further activities when it comes to decisions like: „How to identify relevant use cases? Which use cases to focus on first? How to efficiently implement our data initiatives?“
Therefore, we have developed an approach to support you by defining your own Data, Analytics, Data Science and AI strategy and planning your roadmap to unlock your data potential.

Added value: implementable strategy for a clear vision and tailor-made roadmap containing the steps required to operationalize your strategy.

Data-driven Consulting & Strategy

Our experts support you in defining your strategy for all the different building blocks of a data-driven organization based on the understanding/consideration of your ecosystem. Together with you, we plan your tailor-made roadmap, and we fill the gap between a high-level digitization strategy and the daily business.

Use Case identification

Identifying the right use cases is the cornerstone of successful data projects. We help you identify the most relevant use cases to implement. In just a few days, through workshops, we determine with you, based on the data available, its quality and your organization’s context, the concrete use cases on which you should focus your efforts.

Data related Maturity Assessment

Data related fields such as AI, Data Science and Analytics have become critical for organizations. Their level of maturity can be greatly increased by taking into account all relevant areas of action (e.g. Process Design and Technical Infrastructure). We support you to assess your level of maturity and we provide you with concrete recommendations.

Data related Awareness

We live in a world where new technologies and concepts emerge every day. It can be difficult for organizations to keep themselves up-to-date due to a lack of time and resources. We offer workshops sessions to help you understand these innovations, match them with your business challenges and choose where to focus your strategic efforts.

Change Management Support

The definition and implementation of a data-driven strategy will have a significant impact on your organization. We are here to help you assess and manage this change, by taking into account the impacts on existing operations, people and processes.

2. Data engineering

Building the right data platform to deliver results and models in production.

Data Platforms // Data Governance // Data Integration // Cloud Analytics // Data Warehouse // Big Data // Data Lake // ETL // Streaming Analytics

The volume and diversity of data processed on a daily basis has increased massively in recent years. If we want the right user to exploit the right and relevant data, we need it to be efficiently stored, governed and distributed.
To lay the technical foundation required for Analytics and Data Science activities and to make the right data available to the right user at the right time, you need to build your own Data Platform that is tailored to your needs. This infrastructure must meet your users’ operational needs and provide high-quality and understandable data.
We combine our data engineering expertise with the best-in-class tools and technologies on the market to:

Help you build your Data Warehouse or Data Lake according to your roadmap,
Operate either on-premise or in the Cloud depending of your (IT) strategy,
Gain agility with the easy provision of sandboxes and data to Analysts and Data Scientists.

Added-value: benefit from our experience and best practices to efficiently collect, store, govern and distribute your data inside your company to deliver value.

Data Engineering Training

We enable your teams to master your data platform as well as all related processes and tasks during tailor-made training sessions. This sharing of knowledge and best practices allows you to empower your teams by successfully managing key data engineering tasks like ETL, cloud engineering and data warehousing.

Data Governance Training and Coaching

We train and coach you so that you can be autonomous and skilled to succeed in your Data Governance initiative. We teach you how to use Data Catalog, Data Lineage and Data Quality tools and make sure to transfer the right skills to your operational teams.

Data Governance Methodology Implementation

We have developed a methodology that assesses a company's ability to define, manage, and use their data in accordance with the data strategy. This way, we implement the Data Governance Operating Model that will allow you to effectively govern your data.

Ad'hoc Consulting

The rapid evolution of technologies and the complexity of data engineering projects require advanced skills. Relieve your team and minimize the tasks involved in the recruitment process by opting for external ressources. We identify your needs to provide you with the best specialists you need to achieve your project.

Data Platform Architecture

Our teams analyze your goals and your specificities to establish your requirements. Based on this, we design the technical and functional architecture that best suits your organization. We also recommend the tools, technologies and best practices to implement in order to create your own data platform, either if it is a Data Warehouse or a Data Lake, or a combination of both.

Technology Integration and Tools Licensing

Our certified teams ensure the integration and deployment of cutting edge technologies that best suits your requirements. Thanks to our partnerships with leading vendors such as SAS and IBM, we as well take care of the licensing and provide the associated services needed.

Data Platform Implementation

Based on the functional and technical architecture that you have validated, as well as on the technical choices you have made, our teams take care of the implementation of your Data Platform. You can be certain that they will use existing best practices to make this implementation a success.

Data Platform Maintenance and Support

In order to guarantee the reliability of your Data Platform, we offer a range of support and maintenance options. Among others, we ensure the update of the softwares you use, the resolution of possible issues and the extension of your solution with customized functionalities. If needed we have support centers worldwide to ensure 24/7 availability.

Data Platform Migration

Whether you want to modernize your data platform or move from an on-premise to a cloud infrastructure, the success of your data migration must be taken seriously. We support with best practices and tools to ensure that your data, workflows and all related processes are migrated successfully.

3. Analytics & BI

Innovative analytics to make better decision every day.

Diagnostic and Descriptive Analytics // Modern Business Intelligence // Reporting and Dashboarding // Self-service Analytics // Data Preparation // Data Visualization // Data Storytelling

To make impactful decisions in today’s world, the experience of your teams is no longer sufficient. Data is the key to gain insights about the past and these insights turn out to be the cornerstone for your next decisions. Gaining a competitive advantage can only be achieved by combining experience and data analytics the right way.
By using analytics, business users are no longer limited to preconfigured, static reports. They are now able to discover, understand and analyze data flexibly in each business context. In addition, data storytelling capabilities make results understandable for everyone. Your decision makers can identify insights at a glance and instantly take actions.
We put our experience and our expertise on analytics practical approaches such as:

self-service analytics, to empower your business users with analytics capabilities;
modern business intelligence, to define your own business rules, better understand your business and take decisions.

Added-value: give your teams the ways and best practices to access, prepare, visualize and analyze data as it is the key pillar of your decision-making. Moreover, we go a step further by leading the way for cutting-edge concepts such as Citizen Data Science, providing business users with advanced analytics capabilities.

Data Vizualisation Consulting

Data vizualisation allows you to have a better understanding of data and a more impactful representation of your analyses. We can help you create data vizualisations and dashboards according to your needs, optimize your existing ones and support your teams in the adoption of this new capability. We also provide you with our Data Storytelling expertise to make sense of your data in a storytelling scenario, and answer your most complex questions.

Self-service Analytics Skills Transfer

We offer tailor-made training to learn data analytics tools and techniques. From using the major tools such as Tableau, Alteryx or Power BI, to mastering the design of data preparation automation workflows, our experts provide your teams with the support/training they need.

Analytics Project Management

Our teams take care of the project management of your Analytics solution, including requirements engineering, selection of the relevant project management method (like agile or waterfall), realization and many more. You can be certain that they will use existing methodologies and best practices to make this project a success.

Technology Integration and Tools Licensing

Our certified teams ensure the integration and deployment of cutting edge technologies that best suits your requirements. Thanks to our partnerships with leading vendors such as Alteryx and Tableau, we as well take care of the licensing and provide the associated services needed.

Ad'hoc Consulting

The rapid evolution of technologies and the complexity of Analytics projects require advanced skills. Relieve your team and minimize the tasks involved in the recruitment process by opting for external resources. We identify your needs to provide you with the best analytics specialists with a deep functional knowledge in your business line or sector knowledge in your industry.

Data Preparation Consulting

Our teams of experts support you in optimizing your data preparation workflows, from improving the automation of tasks to publishing data. We put our expertise at the service of the performance of your analytics activities.

Citizen Data Science Training

Analytics technology has evolved to the point where advanced analytics has become accessible. We offer tailor-made training to help your business users understand and use these advanced data analytics capabilities to get the most out of it. Our Data Scientists take part in the creation of these trainings to ensure the relevance of your next analyses.

4. Data Science & AI

Unlock the power of Data Science & AI and get ready for the future.

Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics // Text Analysis and NLP // Image and Audio Analytics // Machine/Deep Learning // ML Engineering

Nowadays to remain competitive, companies need to anticipate the future. There are plenty of complex predictive and prescriptive analytics techniques, that allow to identify new trends and patterns from data, to predict future developments, and to perform simulations and optimizations. The knowledge you gain enables you, for example, to generate a more profitable business by determining the right prices for your offers, by predicting your customers behaviour or to save costs by improving your processes efficiency. Using advanced analytics technologies will decide about whether you stay ahead of or lag behind your competition.
In the past, techniques for handling and analysing complex and voluminous data in business environments were only available for high-end research projects or for a technological elite. But today they are in close reach for you, to analyse your structured and unstructured data (e.g. from images, video, or audio files), to develop models using machine learning methods or artificial intelligence techniques, and to successfully operationalize these models for your business applications.
Based on the use cases and the roadmap we defined, our experts for data science and AI support you to:

identify and choose the right machine learning and deep learning technologies and techniques (according to your use cases),
take care of model development (with machine learning and deep learning techniques),
operationalize these models using innovative approaches like MLOps.

Added-value: Empowering your teams to successfully operate the right advanced analytics technologies, defined according to your objectives (such as cost savings, increased sales or better customer understanding). In this way we ensure that you optimise/re-invent your business in the right way.

Use Case Implementation

If you have already decided which use cases you want to implement, our experts will be happy to help you. Whether it is the development of a proof of concept, to test the use case in a small but realistic scope, or the operationalisation - we support you throughout the entire process and ensure that we provide your teams with the necessary know-how.

Data Science and AI Implementation

We design, develop, implement and operationalise data science and AI applications based on your company's strategy - or empower your own data scientists to do so. Our certified experts support you in performing advanced analyses, such as text mining or image and audio analysis. We also bring our many years of cross-industry expertise to the implementation of data science and AI use cases such as dynamic pricing, explainable AI, churn prevention, fraud detection, in order to provide your company with the added value from data.

Ad'hoc Consulting

The rapid evolution of technologies and the complexity of Data Science and AI projects require advanced skills. Relieve your team and minimize the tasks involved in the recruitment process by opting for external resources. We identify your needs to provide you with the best specialists you need to achieve your project.

Data Science Platform Implementation and Tools Licensing

Based on the requirements, our certified teams engineered, we design the architecture for a data science platform that best suits your organization. We also recommend tools, technologies and best practices to implement and ensure their integration and deployment. Thanks to our partnerships with leading companies such as SAS and Dataiku we as well take care of the licensing and provide the associated services needed.

Training

In the field of data science and AI, there is a wide variety of techniques and technologies and a wide range of tools and programming languages that are still developing rapidly. To ensure that you have access to the required expertise, in addition to knowledge transfer within a project, we also offer customised training courses tailored to the training needs of your team. We offer training for technologies and techniques such as machine learning and deep learning, but also for organisational topics such as embedding data science in a company or building a data science team.