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Data analytics & BI. One figure, one meaning, wherever it appears.

Records from different systems are brought under shared definitions, so every figure can be traced back to the work that produced it.

From records to a reason to act.Illustrative example

Scattered Records from different systems, described in different ways.

01From data to understanding

A shared definition comes before a useful report.

Every workflow leaves a record: requests, orders, invoices, approvals. That record is spread across systems and spreadsheets, and described differently in each place. Understanding starts when it is brought together and structured, so that a figure means the same thing wherever it appears.

02Common information problems

Signs the information is working against you.

  • Figures that disagree

    Two reports, two answers to the same question, and a meeting spent deciding which is right.

  • Reports rebuilt by hand

    The same spreadsheet work repeated every period, by the people who should be using it.

  • Definitions that differ

    Each team measures the same thing its own way, so nobody can compare.

  • Dashboards nobody trusts

    Numbers that are checked somewhere else before anyone acts on them.

  • Slow answers

    Simple questions that take days, because the answer lives in five places.

  • No link to the work

    Figures that show a problem but not where in the workflow it starts.

03What Tibyan builds

Information structured around decisions.

  1. A structured model of the operation

    The records behind the work, brought together and organised the way the business actually runs.

  2. Shared definitions

    Agreed measures, written down and applied the same way everywhere.

  3. Reporting built around decisions

    Views designed for the decisions people make, not for everything that could be shown.

  4. Quality at the source

    Problems in the data surfaced where they are created, before they reach a report.

04How information becomes decisions

Every figure traceable to its source.

A figure is only useful if someone can ask where it came from and get an answer. Everything we build keeps that path open: from the decision, back to the measure, back to the records, back to the work.

05How an engagement works

One real question first.

Every engagement starts from one real question or workflow and moves in this order. Each step is agreed before the next one starts.

  1. Choose the decisionIdentify the decision, who makes it and the information they use.
  2. Trace the sourcesTrace the source records and find gaps in quality, definitions or access.
  3. Agree the measuresWrite down what each measure counts, the data model behind it, and how every figure can be checked.
  4. Build the modelConnect the sources and build the agreed model, quality checks and reports.
  5. Check against recordsCheck the figures against source records with the people who will use them.
  6. Keep it currentReview data quality and update the reporting as decisions and operations change.

Next step

Bring the question your reports cannot answer.

One decision, the figures it depends on, and where they disagree. That is enough to begin.

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