PROFILE

Voltaire Consultants
Who are we? We are Data Integrators and Business Intelligence specialists. Since 1996 we have implemented many successful Business Intelligence projects on a turn-key basis. Many customers have taken advantage of our expertise and are today using our creative and high value Business Intelligence solutions. Voltaire Consultants should be your first port of call on matters concerning Business Intelligence!

If your company wishes to gain insight into its customers and associated risks, or if you are seraching for new marketing and cross-selling opportunities, then you need look no further. No Data Warehouse yet? Voltaire Consultants will provide you with the relevant company and otherwise information efficiently and in a meaningful manner.  No problem is too complex.

Customers are Dutch companies, multinationals and semi-government. Projects have been carried out in the telecom, logistics, transport, energy, insurance and banking sectors. Experience our expertise in the insurance and telecom arenas!

Vision
The world is changing. Our  previously somewhat limited and predictable horizon has given way to a society embracing the entire globe. Change brings about new opportunities, inevitably change also means threats to existing paradigms and commerce. Economies are turbulent, cost reduction is paramount. All this has forced a re-think on the way business decisions are made. Information technology is deemed to be an essential determining factor when making decisions. Crucial business processes such as marketing, financial management and logistics are totally dependent on just in time information reaching relevant executives. Central to all this is the question whether most companies receive this executive information in a timely fashion and indeed in a suitable format. 

Furthermore, there has been a shift from high volume to high value business practices. Customers are less predictable, loyalty no longer guaranteed. The classic value chain has changed from a production driven process to a demand driven approach. Are all customers of interest? All these factors pose new demands on modern day management and decison making. Information about processes and customers can be leveraged so as to aid the company’s competitiveness. In short, the ability to successfully make critical business decisions depends more and more on the availability of relevant information and the use of information technology. 

So, it has become the more important to ensure the liability of the information supplied. External parties (government, consumer organisations, etc.) are imposing strict rules for proving that the information supplied is actually current and correct. Think about regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx) and Basel. These regulations impose heavy requirements on the loading and transformation procedures of your datawarehouse and ask for advanced control-mechanisms. 

The newest trend in BI is the use of BI in the sector of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). Several investigations show this, see for instance : BI-Enquete. Not surprisingly as at one hand these companies collect more and more information that they want to use for strategic and operational purposes like expanding their business, lower the production cost and improving their customer service. On the other hand the cost of hardware and BI specific software are decreasing (think about Open Source BI software that are really maturing). 

And so we also expect a growing market share of Open Source BI software, especially in the SME and governmental sector. And we are not the only ones having that expectations as this is also expected by leading research companies: "By 2012, Adoption of Open-Source BI Being Used as an Enterprisewide Standard Platform Will Triple" --Gartner Research. 

In this sense also the concept of SaaS can be mentioned. Especially for companies willing to use the advantages of BI but not having a big IT-department, SaaS might be a good alternative. The SaaS provider loads the data in its own created database(s), provides all parties with the information (reports, feeds) needed from the data warehouse, builds- in all necessary control mechanisms, and maintains the databases. This is a very appealing concept voor cooperations (e.g. brokers, drugstores) that would like to share information on common clients or about the sector as a whole or with respect to individual performance, but that don’t have or don’t want to have a full-grown IT department able to set up a datawarehouse and maintaining it.

The importance of Business Intelligence is increasingly gaining momentum. Companies that embrace Business Intelligence will be best poised to survive in the long term. For those that don't, it is questionable whether they will survive in even the medium term in our modern, dynamic and competitive global village.

Mission
Voltaire Consultants mission is:
“Optimizing the decision making process for her customers".

Our mission is accomplished by:
	Supporting our clients in the decision making process by providing them with timely, relevant and qualitatively superior information.
	Extending ourselves beyond consultancy;  that is we are only satisfied when we actually implement our advice.

Expertise Voltaire Consultants expertise as a Solutions Provider is as follows:
	Business Intelligence en Decision Support Systems (DSS).
	Data Warehousing.
	Data Mining.
	Database Marketing.
	Analytical CRM.
	Operations Research.
	Balanced Score Card.
	Reconciliation.
	Revenue Assurance.
	Operational Data Store.
	Projectmanagement based on well-known methods (like PRINCE2).
	Open Source Business Intelligence software.
	Software as a Service (SaaS).

Our services ara available on a fixed price basis, time and materials or via out sourcing or Saas.