Allied Consultants is a business intelligence and IT consulting firm founded in 2001, with a focus on application integration, mobile and web development, and a broad range of data analysis capabilities. The company has experienced over 100% annual growth since 2007 and offers various engagement models, including fixed cost and time/material options. Their expertise includes visualization through dashboards and performance monitoring, serving diverse clients like LA Fitness and Grubb & Ellis.

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©2012 Allied Consultants - all rights reserved

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About Allied
• Consulting since 2001
• Focused on Business Intelligence, Application Integration, Mobile and
Web development
• Offices in Alberta, Canada and Indian Subcontinent
• 25+ architects with a broad partner network of specialists based around
the world
• 10 years of experience in the Mid-sized market
• Industry Agnostic
Company
Clients
Channel
Partners

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History
• Over 2 decades of consulting experience
• Diversified into Legal Education Consulting
• Diversified into IT in 2001
• Growing at over 100% a year since 2007
• Comprehensive partner network of over 50 local
companies for expertise not available in-house
• Core values remained the same through the years:
– Small. Smart. Fair.

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IT - Practice Areas
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Web and Portals
• Mobile Development
Predominantly Microsoft Focused

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Business Capabilities
• KPIs
• Performance Monitoring
• Pattern Analysis
• Budgeting and Planning
• Forecasting
• Clickstream analysis

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IT Capabilities
• KPI
• Dashboards
• Scorecards
• Graphs
• Charts
• User Driven Analytical reports

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Technical Capabilities
• SSAS
• SSRS
• SSIS
• Performance Point
• Power Pivot/View
• SQL Server
• SharePoint Server
• Auxiliary practices
• Microstrategy, IBM, SAP

8. Our Expertise – ‘End to End’
Data from
multiple
sources
Data Extraction
& Validation Load Database
Platform
Data
Preparation &
Aggregation Data Marts
Exception
Reporting,
Real-Time
Analysis, Alerts
Relational Data
marts
Data Analysis
Cubes
Data Mining
Analysis &
Reporting
Interactive Planning
& Execution
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Differentiators
• Experienced consultants who
understand the business problem,
not just the technology
• Average developer has about 8 years
of experience
• Vast partner network for best-in-class
delivery

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Alberta Pipes
• 2 year long project building various
organizational dashboards
• Finance, Inventory, Stock, Shipment
reports and KPIs
• Extraction of data from vendor data
and Sage Adonix X3 (ERP)

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Guilford County
• Dashboard built using cloud
based SAAS Technology (Birst)
• Dashboard showed KPIs for Child
Placement services
• Modernized existing Excel/Access
based systems into a
consolidated online portal team
members could collaborate on

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Vintage Senior
• Data extraction from Yardi (ERP)
• Cubes developed to aggregate
key data across time and
location dimensions
• Forecasting reports displayed a
user dashboard projected
revenue over various dimensions

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Mobile Employee Reporting
• Linc/ABM is one of the largest
Facilities Maintenance firms in the
US
• The application reported the current
status of tasks
• Provided instant visibility of worker
status
• Contained images/audio/video
recordings of

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LA Fitness
• Visio Services Reporting
• Dashboard visually showed
problems with fitness
equipment
• Recognized as the most
creative application by
Microsoft

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Grubb & Ellis – Client Dashboards
• Grubb & Ellis is a real estate management
company
• A series of 7 client dashboards were built
to show G & E customers key metrics on
their properties
• Data was extracted from a custom ERP
and displayed on an interactive SharePoint
Dashboard

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Other Competencies
• Enterprise Application Integration
– B2B – Connecting Business Partners
Electronically
– EAI – Connecting applications within
the organization
• Web Development
– Portals and websites to go with the
mobile applications
• Mobile Development

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Engagement Models
• Fixed cost : You get a fixed quote for an application
– Lowest Risk, Lowest Hassle
• Time and Material: Charging by the hour. Best
suited for projects where the scope is not clear or an
iterative SDLC is preferred.
– Flexible, More control
• Team Incubation : Customer can chose to host a
team at Allied, managing them directly and paying
local rate salaries
– Lowest Cost, Maximum Control

18. Call to Action
• Talk is Cheap
• We’ll give you 2 weeks of free services to try
us out
• If you don’t like what we can do, you don’t
pay