1. The Akili Difference Akili (pronounced (uh • kē’ • lē) meaning “knowledge” in Swahili) is an enterprise performance management and business intelligence consulting firm headquartered in Irving, TX. Akili provides solutions that support the adaptive enterprise, enabling real time planning, forecasting, and budgeting systems that are powerful, intuitive and capable of seamlessly merging all dimensions of a large scale business enterprise. Akili’s nearly 20 years of successful service to Fortune 1000 companies speaks to their expertise, client-focus, and results-oriented standards of excellence. Commitment Business Focus Expertise We always deliver. We appreciate the faith placed in us by our clients when they choose to do business with Akili and we take our commitment to those individuals very seriously. No matter what it takes, we always deliver. We’re extremely good at what we do – as our clients will happily attest. We are alone in allowing potential customers to select their own reference accounts from our entire customer base. We have a genuine passion for improving your business. It isn’t about cool technology but rather what the technology can make possible. Our projects begin with stated business objectives and end only when those objectives have been achieved. 3 1 2 1
8. Flexible and agileBusiness Intelligence Information Management “Akili implements the Business Objects suite of performance management, business intelligence, and information management solutions from SAP.” 2
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11. These indicators can be financial and non-financial, internally sourced and externally sourced, prospective and retrospective. Akili helps clients to identify these key indicators and to then design and implement performance management solutions that deliver them to the right people at the right time in the right format. Information becomes actionable only when presented in the proper context.3 3
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13. There are a number of solution sub-categories under the BI umbrella including dash boarding, operational reporting, ad hoc reporting, business analytics, and predictive modeling.
14. Performance management seeks to answer the question “how are we doing?”. Business intelligence seeks to answer the questions “why?” and “what next?”.
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16. An enterprise information architecture isn’t a business solution in the strictest sense of the word however it is the foundation upon which the information management solutions must ultimately rest.
17. The enterprise information architecture is the grouping of tools that handle the sourcing, scrubbing, mapping, loading, and management of information (data). None of it glamorous but all of it essential.
18. Akili designs and implements enterprise information architecture solutions that are scalable and adaptable. Applications may come and go but the need to access information endures.4
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